Front End Engineer | Javascript | Typescript | React JS | React Native | Vue.JS
Lagos
Joined November 2019
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Charly retweeted
Since I woke up this morning, I've taken my time to go through the comments, quotes, and advice people have shared. Trust me, I'm going to take every single piece of advice seriously. However, there's one advice I will not take, and that's people telling me to stay away from politics and focus solely on my business.
I think I responded to someone's comment suggesting that we should vote for Peter Obi, and I noticed that quite a number of people dragged me for it. But honestly, why should I be told not to talk about politics and just concentrate on my business? Who do you think put me in the situation I'm currently in? Is it not the government? I shouldn't talk about politics, but politics is talking about me. Do you understand how badly government policies have affected my business and my livelihood?
I'm genuinely grateful to everyone who came through for me, but the truth is, I'm still going to bear losses. And who created the economic conditions that contributed to those losses? The government.
Let me also address those who believe I made a financial mistake by opening the shop in the first place. Yes, perhaps there were things I could have done differently, but let me give you some context. My shop is strategically located between two major universities in Port Harcourt: the University of Science and Technology (UST) and Ignatius Ajuru University. These institutions have thousands of students. Do you honestly think these students don't want cookies? Why do you think I chose that location in the first place? The idea was simple: students from both universities would make up a significant part of my customer base.
Interestingly, since this whole support campaign started, a good number of the people who have shown up to support me are students from these same universities. They have always been my target audience. But the problem is that the economy has destroyed their purchasing power. These students, who ordinarily would patronise my business, are now more concerned about paying school fees, feeding themselves, and meeting their basic needs.
And somehow, I'm being told not to talk about politics?
You're telling me to focus on my business, post my products, and leave politics alone. But why can't I do both? Why can't I promote my business and also speak about the political leadership and candidate I believe can bring about the change we desperately need? Why shouldn't I advocate for someone I believe can help change the circumstances that have made running a small business this difficult?
I was fortunate that my situation gained attention and people rallied around me. But what happens the next time? Will I have to depend on a viral post before I can make meaningful sales? Is that how a business should survive? Absolutely not.
I appreciate every single person who has supported me, advised me, encouraged me, and shown me love. I will take the business advice, learn from my mistakes, and make better decisions going forward.
But please, don't tell me to stop talking about politics. The economy is affecting my business. Government policies are affecting my customers. The political decisions being made in this country have direct consequences on my livelihood.
I cannot separate my business struggles from the politics and economic realities that contribute to them. I have every right to speak about both.
PLEASE VOTE PETER OBI!!! ✌️
Charly retweeted
When I got laid off from Microsoft, I got into a company in Lagos that felt paying 600k naira a month was doing me a favour. I had to take the offer to keep body and soul together.
Was there for 6 months until I fell out with the MD and started looking out. That was when I started my training outfit but couldn't quite get traction.
Anyway, after leaving this NGO, I spent another 5 months in the wilderness, literally. Ate rejections almost every other day. Was living on the goodwill of friends and relations. Basically wondering what to get out of life.
An Antler rep came knocking at the time and was in the process of fast tracking my application to the Antler cohort at Kenya. Guess what? My passport had expired. Ran to go fast track my passport, after a few days emailed the partner but was told it was too late.
I remember laying in my room laughing hysterically, mulling to myself, "who I offend?"
Thankfully at that time, I applied to Andela and the process started for another 2 months. I got into Andela and my monthly salary was my previous annual salary. This trend continued in a subsequent company. Use am run one or two that year.
But the point is, while I was enjoying this new reality, I asked myself, "why did you worry all those times?" In hindsight, there was no reason to. I should have just chilled for 5 months, enjoyed myself.
But we are human and can only understand life in hindsight. As long as you believe this it will work out for you: EVERYTHING will turn out better than you expected, just stop worrying.
Charly retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“Every pattern in your life repeats until you learn the lesson. The moment you choose differently, the loop ends and growth begins.”
Charly retweeted
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Charly retweeted
The fastest way to get ahead is to become obsessed with solving problems. Stop seeing obstacles as reasons to quit. Treat them as challenges that teach you valuable lessons. Every failed attempt gives you information that can make the next one better.
Charly retweeted
Went to change oil in my car and this mechanic legit wanted to change my battery, he didn’t know I marked it.😭😂😂😂
I told him that other one is my battery, he said no mama, I show am my name wey I use small compass write.
Me wey go boarding school????
Charly retweeted
Imagine working at OpenAI as an engineer, making $1M+ per year in compensation, and then deciding that you'd throw away your career just like that by planting hidden recording devices in the office.
Also, congrats on making the co be more suspicious of every + all employees now
Charly retweeted
“We are hardpressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body.” 2 Corin 4:8-10
Charly retweeted
If you are in the UK and looking for volunteering opportunities to strengthen your GTV evidence pack, I have put together a ranked list of 69 opportunities: 24 High priority and 45 Medium priority.
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Now all you have to do is apply, apply, apply!
Happy new month, friends.
Charly retweeted
Drake held a concert in Manchester, I bought tickets and went.
The Weeknd held a concert in Manchester, I was also there.
Burna Boy, I dey there.
Chris Brown, I dey front row.
Rema at the O2, na me arrange the seats for everybody.
I have attended so many other concerts and will attend more.
Nobody objected, faulted me or called me a lost cause for attending these concerts or going to stadiums to watch football.
I also have no right to call anyone a lost cause if they go to a stadium for religious activity.
I’d be a tall chunk of hypocrisy if such comments ever came out of me.
Just recently, you held a watch party for an Arsenal game and Arsenal fans attended and there was gleeful moments + memories made. Nobody called them a lost cause.
Do the same.
Leave people alone to do what they like. Stop forming fake deep every time because of the small faux intellectualism you think you’ve come upon. Leave people alone. We will all die eventually, and in 300 years nobody will remember we existed.
Leave people alone.
