Happy 2022 fam!!! Trust this meets you well. It’s been ages, yeah?! Well, I found this particular article in my drafts. It’s been ready to be posted but I don’t know why I didn’t post it. This might probably be the last time or maybe not. Enjoy!

Hi, guys! Wadup wadup! It’s the last day of the month of September! Who else is excited that 2020 is almost over, cuz I am!

I’m sure a whole lot of you can relate to a bunch of things I’ll be writing about. I have decided to make this a series titled my adulthood journey/struggles.

Andddd the very first thing is be writing about is life after school, after Nysc…
For my non- Nigerian friends, NYSC( National Youth Service Corp) is a mandatory one year service to the country after your higher education, it’s more like being in the military(lowest rank) for one year, you get paid stipends as allowance for that period.

Now, At this point, you feel more alone, at least I felt that way. You part ways with friends you made in the past year as they all go to back to their states/ families and loved ones to start another chapter of their lives.
Everyone is now more than ever concerned with getting a job, a steady income, and staying sane. A few months before passing out, you’ll start seeing memes about not getting depressed when the monthly allowance from the government stops coming in after your service year.

It’s now every man for himself, you send out applications for job openings, attend interviews. If you were fortunate to save up enough money, you’re fine for the meantime but if you couldn’t save up, you’d have to look for a source of income while also applying for jobs; and we all know that isn’t easy at all.
Now, some people are very blessed, (yeah, I call it blessed)to get a job before the end of the service year or immediately after while some have to keep searching and searching.
One thing that matters at this point in adulthood is your attitude and your open-mindedness.

I for one was blessed to get a job immediately after my service year. And you must know that people would assume you’re jobless, a whole lot of people will. I got that, a lot of people thought I was doing business and didn’t want to go home so I stayed back in Minna. And for a while, I got startled and a bit offended. But I then realized that
the situation of the country has conditioned us to think that way.

But how do we ask even our friends the dreaded question, “so, what are you doing now?” An uncomfortable question it is. I particularly find it hard to ask and prefer just to let it be.
Or how do you tell friends and people that you now have a job? I mean, that makes you a target for more people to ask you for financial help, doesn’t it? LOL.
Don’t get me wrong, don’t have anything against asking for help. I also ask for help when I need it, but I’m sure you understand what I mean.

Now, I’m wondering how to end this particular episode and can’t seem to come up with any, so I’ll leave it this way. More episodes coming up!

You do know that I appreciate you and value your thoughts and opinions too, yeah? Pls, leave a comment, like, and share.

It’s still your petite sweetheart, ciao!