Being a young boy who grew up in the village, I was exposed to a lot of things about life which makes me grow stronger everyday.
Lazy men are very few in my village because what you do is what you eat (no food for a lazy man). I'm from kogi state where government workers are badly treated: a state where by only only few people depend on government to survive.
I so much believe in working to get my own money because I was very hardworking to the extent that a lot of women in the village community wish they could have me as their son or grandson which makes me to so proud of myself.
I like working to get my own money because in my house; the only money you can spend anyhow you like is the money you earn by yourself.
The first phone my elderly ones used was bought by my parents but the first phone I used was the phone I bought by myself.
I bought the phone 2,500 from a cousin sister while I was in jss2, I also bought my first bicycle 5,000 at jss2 and I bought my first Samsung Android 8,000 from a friend while I was in jss3.
I bought my second bicycle at jss3 and i bought my second android phone 11,500 in sss1 and i finally became a motorcycle owner in sss1.
I guess that was quite a rich life.
how i get money to buy all this things at that age and time.
Like i said earlier, I was very hardworking.
I was doing business and labourer work, I was in primary6 when I started business and I was in jss1 when I started labourer work.
When I was in primary6 I started selling firewood in the community, and I met my mother selling firewood as I grew up but she always order her own from the sawmill while I was going to the bush to get my own and I will divide it into 4,4 pieces #30 per one.
As time goes on, I meet three boys who are hustler like me then I join them and I became the leader since I was quite brilliant and smarter than them and I can work more than them.
We use to go to the bush to get locust beans with our sacks and we were selling it 700 to 800 per bag and my firewood business was still going smoothly.
We used to pack sand for building and we were selling it 5,000 per load (truck).
We used to help villagers to cultivate their backyard farm then we charge them.
We used to go for hunting with dogs but we don't sell our bush meat we normally eat it.
The labourer work we were doing was with the bricklayers, sometimes we pack block for them or fetch water for mixing of the cement and they were paying us #300 later #700 then 1,000 and finally 1,500.
So I was in secondary when I realized the secret of making money is creating as many as possible source of income.
I stopped all this works when I was in sss2, I started doing big boy and doing a better job.
In sss2, I join my father fully in his business though I have been following him before to do some minor works but now I'm getting paid and also working for other people and not my father alone.
This is a work were I was paid #2,500 plus #500 money for feeding making 3,000 it is called Madrin work and our work is to follow the truck to the bush and load the timber inside the truck and I normally follow my father "agbegi lodo" (truck with flat wooden back).
Sometimes I make #6,000 in a day and sometimes I make #30,000 within two weeks.
So this lifestyle makes me to hate government and private sector workers, I see government workers as slaves most especially if you are collecting anything below 30,000 in a month, I see them as poor people.
The same amount of money I'm making within two weeks is same amount you are working for a month to make.
I so much believe in business and doing
many things at a time.
My parents are successful business men, most especially my mother.
And now that I'm in sokoto, I work as a fish farmer, a youtuber, a graphic designer, a video editor, a wordpress web designer and developer, a book writer and a typist most especially for the lazy students who cannot type their project or assignment by themselves.
ADVICE FROM AUTHOR
Be hardworking
Don't settle for less
Do as many as possible things at a time; the secret of making money is creating as many as possible source of income.
Hijack any opportunity; a pure water seller is also making his own money.
Mingle with people you can benefit from; a man said, if you need 10k urgently and you call about three of your friends and you still can't get the 10k then you need to change your friends cycle.
Don't be ashamed of what you do to earn a living; in as much as it doesn't makes you to hurt others or sin against God.
It doesn't matter how little the start could be, what matters is where you are heading to; I started as a #30 firewood seller (business in blood).
My mother used to say; is better you keep your achievements to yourself than announcing it to the world, silently make your progress.
Humble yourself, don't behave like someone who has arrived, behave like someone who have thousands of naira even when you are having millions of naira.
Even people that are helping you financially will start to withdraw when you start behaving like someone who has arrived.
If you don't know how to manage money then try and marry a woman who knows how to manage money, both of you should not be useless in that aspect to avoid some financial issues.
And remember "givers never lack" so try to be a giver.