They often say that there is dignity in labour. Most religion also agree to this and encourage that everyone should and devil to have a means of income and to be a well meaning citizen, everyone needs that.
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However for me looking back to the first time I made money from work I did, dates back to just after my senior secondary school examination then I was at home preparing for the national exam which everyone should write to enter into the university commonly known as JAMB.
It happened that one of my teachers in school who knew how interested I was with mathematics called me one day and told me she wanted me to teach her children mathematics over the break while I made some cool cash. She was going to pay me 5000 naira every month for teaching them and I don't have to take transport to the house because they will come to my house. I also do not have to buy any extra material because they are coming with their books and their board and everything and might need all I was going to do is teach them.
This sounded like a very smart way to actually spend the break and also prepare myself towards my exam I had about four months to the exam and I need some cash to fend for myself as that time I was getting too old to ask money from my parents or so I thought.
I had fun teaching them things I knew about mathematics and I practically covered lots of chapters and topics in very first month. It appeared like fun to me I was having friends come to my house and we talk about something I loved.
Annoying to me was when some other parents discovered what was going on and wanted their kids to join the party, but they weren't willing to pay what's being paid, they thought it was free as usual. Someone saw something in me and valued it and paid me for it. While they have been having me teach their kids free for years. So I told them they didn't need to as I could not be able to follow up on the progress of more than three people because of the work I also had to do towards my exams.
The money came in and I honestly cannot remember what I used it to do but it was fun to have some quick cash around me back then and I remeber to always save it in piggy box "kolo" Or give my mum for her to purchase something I loved, whatever it wasn't sure it was well spent and I was delighted.
This was my first ending but it opened the way to much more earnings as eventually passed my exams and then used the time while waiting for the admission to apply into private schools and teach them mathematics and other science subjects.
It is important for children to learn to create wealth and to use the knowledge they have to offer services with dignity for money rather than beg for it. I heard of a family where chores are tokenized the number of chores they do in a day determines how much money that you can ask for and this developed the kids to learn to work and get paid right from they're tender ages.
Another kid I heard about got materials from her mum to bake cake for a friend and was paid, her mum had to collect the money for rental of all the materials that she collected from her and then taught her to save, to plan profit and also to invest even right from childhood.
This was a beautiful way to go as children and now beginning to have bank accounts and savings ahead for their future.
If I had known better right now I would have invested my first earning and it probably would be better off today as we all know 5000 naira in 2017 and 5000 Naira in 2022 are not the same thing.
Thanks for reading.
