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There's always a time in a person's life when they have to do something for themselves. For some, this period comes early, and others have the privilege of experiencing it later in life because they have people to Carter for their needs. Whatever the case may be, getting into this stage is first a hard experience, and later a sweet experience.
My experience however was a rather complicated one because I never got to enjoy my very first earnings. I shared the experience in my weekend-engagement post. If you care for the full gist, you can read all about it here. I was privileged to experience working for money later in life because my family sent me to a boarding facility where I had limited access to work, or friends who we could go and do linear jobs together. Even at the time I started, my family weren't really pleased with it, but they had no choice but to accept it. I guess I didn't have a choice either, but I did it anyway.
It happened in 2019, after I finished my National diploma course, with a bid to stop depending on my parents, I learned information marketing from which I generated a little over $1,000. I used $100 to purchase a strategy for trading binary options and invest the remaining $900 into binary options. Long story short, I lost everything in the process which left me in depression.
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After some months of depression, my mum forced me to learn a skill so I will stop staying at home feeling useless, so I decided to learn graphics design, and at the same time, I was learning social media management. I learned these from 2019 into the pandemic year and after the pandemic, I got to work with three companies (I enjoy multitasking) using my graphics design skill alongside social media management. Although I hadn't collected my National diploma results, I was still able to work with these companies after convincing them that what they needed was a competent person to handle their social media and graphics and not a degree holder who doesn't know shit. (I actually said this during the interviews) I guess I was able to convince them I was capable.
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Even though I was multitasking, the companies weren't ready to pay me much because of my qualification. So I was earning a total of 50,000 naira (currently about $75) a month. So at the end of the first month, after receiving my first salary, my laptop screen went bad automatically which forced me to remove 15,000 naira for repair. After this, I removed another 10,000 which covered my transportation and lunch for the month. I used 20,000 to support my family, because those times were hard, and got myself a pair of corporate shirts for work.
So that's the story of what I used my first earnings for, regardless of the time I lost everything.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, until next time.
