Special greetings to everyone. welcome to another unique edition on Hive Learner's, week 18 Edition 03.
Honestly speaking, as an adult it is expected that in one way or the other, you should be able to atleast raise money for yourself to cater for your needs and that of your family as the case maybe. Adulthood is recognized by one's ability to take responsibility. Well, that is my own opinion I don't know about yours. And if that is the case, for us to meet demands of responsibility we need money, and for us to get money we have to work. In the process which we get diverse experiences some good and some bad. Below are my job experiences both the best and the worst. Stay tuned😊.
My worst job experience
It was around June, in the year 2020 during the covid period when things were very difficult, after the lock down was eased a bit. Things were so hard, there was no money, checking the kind of family I came from altogether was something else. The population was much in the family, my parents spend all the had on food and there was no way of replenishing it because there was lock down. Being business people it was like hell for them.
With all these things on ground I now decided to travel to plateau state, Nigeria in search of green pastures so I can atleast ease the load on my parents.
Before I got to Jos I phoned my sister who resides there and inquired for job opportunities available at hand. At that time Schools were still not opened so obviously teaching which happens to be my field was totally off the list. Hmmm! The only option I had was to be a sales boy. I thought over it again, and again. It was not something I would love to do but looking at the situation on ground I had no option. Another problem I have is I am very shy, I don't talk much and I am not friendly at all, I hate noise. The guy said he was going to pay me twenty thousand naira (#20,000) monthly but i resides far from where the shop is located, so we agreed he would be giving me out of my salary two hundred naira (#200) daily for transportation and two hundred naira (#200) daily for feeding. That means at the end of each month what I will be paid is thousand naira (#8,000). I had no option I agreed out of desperation, I had no one to help me so obviously I rather take the job like that or stay broke and moneyless. Thank God for my sister
she gave me free accomodation.
I started the work, I had to learn punctuality, if not for anything but for the distance, I have to start waking up everyday around 4:30am help my sister do the house chores and get set for work. I leave home by past 5 and I get to work sometimes by 6:30am or 7:00. If am late then it's 7:30am. I eventually fell in love with punctuality. But of course you know that surely one day late coming must occur😁.
At work my boss was very harsh, a very young guy though, but very hot tempered. I had to adjust to many things.
We sell Aba made (Nigerian made) shoes of different kinds rubbers, skin e.t.c. but we don't sell as retails we sell in bulk, we are wholesalers . People come from different places to buy goods from us, infact some from other states in Nigeria. We see customers a lot. It's a very busy shop. We have three shops one for normal shoes made of leather and some of other materials of different designs and the other shop is for rubber shoes alone, you can get any kind of rubber shoes you like. Then the last one is for easy wears made of skin.
I didn't spend upto a full week in the shop before I learnt the prices of goods and their classifications. I just wanted to cope and be a professional in my work. Yet my boss would never appreciate. Any slight mistake I do he nags and nags. But I over look all those things because I know what brought me there. I was very faithful with his resources . I don't temper with his money I think that is the only aspect he never complained about. If not hmm! Insults from left and right things that demands corrections, an insult would be rendered instead. I began to be frustrated. The other shop we have is an upstairs everyday I climb that stair case very long like four to five times and immediately am dropping another task awaits. I mean I climb it with goods.
I close from work by 6:00pm , sometimes 6:30pm. The only day I had free was Sunday. Monday to Saturday am on transit. I love the job at first but my boss's attitudes weighed me down. I hated the work along the way not because of the huge tasks but for my boss's personality. I adjusted to every form I could, I humbled myself, I almost made him a god yet he was not satisfied. Besides that I had to fast almost everyday so I could save money. If I said I would be eating I would not have enough money and my aim for traveling is shattered then. I got so frustrated, I thought traveling out and hard work would give me money but I got depression instead. I couldn't cope any more. So I quite the job after the first month and I returned home. Stay tuned😊
My best work experience
In the year 2020 January, before the covid 19 pandemic lockdown I was called by a woman I regard as a mother (Mrs Mary) and offered a job at Abuja Nigeria. I just graduated from school then with some months and was home without doing anything so I decided to give it a try.
It was a shop where phone accessories are sold. The man who has the shop sent his brother and picked me up to Abuja. I started the work and it was wow! Though it was hectic. A busy shop in a small community, apart from phone accessories we charge phones as well. So the shop is always choked with people. But I love the experience and I would tell you why. This man and his family took me as their own child. The gave me accomodation for free and feed me for free beside that they gave me liberty over everything in the house because the trust me. In fact the shop was handed over to me . We were two in the shop but I am the one that gives report about everything that happens in the shop. My boss trusted me so much. I had to avoid be too close with him so that I don't get too familiar with him and take the for granted the privilege given to me.
When I fall sick he cares for me and relieves me from work in fact gets me drugs. God bless that man. Even though I was choked with work in shop I just love being there. I help his wife do chores at home and I took them as my parents too.
You may ask what Happened that I left, I stayed only February, at March the covid19 pandemic came. Abuja happens to be the federal capital territory. The lock down was strict there and I lost my inner peace. I suddenly became uncomfortable staying there. So I met my boss and told him how I feel and that I needed to be home. That was how I left the job.
Lessons I got from the worst job.
1 . Despite the fact that it was frustrating and stressful, It taught me punctuality. Today I am punctual because I once had a strict boss that nags at almost everything.
2 . It taught me humility, though my boss was harsh I learnt from harshness how to bring my self low and respect the way he is.
3 . It taught me patience and perseverance, I can't even tell how I was able to endure and stay in that job with all those nagging and complains. Now I am used to it I can handle any sort of nagging and adjust to fit in the system.
4 . It taught me how to manage resources, there were days I stayed without food to save money for my needs in order to manage the little I had. That helped me to know how to use resources judiciously.
Lessons from the best job.
1 . I learnt that sincerity and commitment earns the trust of men.
2 . I learnt that love is the key to bringing out the potentials in men. Just as my boss and his family loved me and gave me room to do what I can do in their business. If they had acted strict I would have been timid and might not have done what I did in their business.
3 . I learnt that if we are to help people we should help them with all
our hearts like my boss helped me with all his heart even taking me as a son. It was indeed a privilege.
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