The Day I Got Fired

It's lunch breaks guys, so that that means i get to blog. God knows when next I'll get free time to lavish.

I was sitting down uploading my rice and chicken i bought from North point mall and decided to log on to naijaryders.com to relate with my brothers and sisters from another mother. Mehn those guys are useless sha. Funny threads all over, People clowning up on one another. I love every single one of em tho, they're like second family. Notin do dem.

If you get bored at work once in a while like most of us do and need to get a laugh every now and then, log on to www.naijaryders.com and get familiar.

Anyways so while browsing, i came across a thread wherein the thread starter mentions a friend of his getting fired from an old job.

Loosing your job can be really stressful mehn. Man must wack, bills dey pile up, even sef people back home dey flash you to send dough. if you come be young bubbly bobo like me nko, you go wan trip babes every once in a while and flenjure on wkends.

With no cash flow, things can get ugly pretty quick.

I've been fired b4. That was back was when i was making $12/hr working as tech support specialist for cablevision's highspeed internet service. It was my first job after college. Coming out from a top engineering university, i had high hopes - at least 50k to start. Basically I wasnt too happy but that was what i could get at that time plus i didnt want to move an inch out of NYC for work.

No Yawa! Hopefully i can work my way up to their software development team within a few months. I quickly became one of the top tech support guys after like 2 months. Then i went to the software development team and even told them i'd work for free just so they could get an idea of my programming skills.

To cut the long story short, they hated on me sha. After like 3months of abuse on the phone from irate customers; people cursing my mother over the phone because their internet quit working, I snapped oneday and just walked out the building. I dint even shut down my station, did'nt even log out. i just left mehn. I couldnt take it no more. My boys thought i was crazy. You had to be.

Luckily sha i had saved enuff dough to last me prolly a month or so. I started looking for job 24/7, emailing out custom cover letters and resumes like say i be UPS guy. Free time was dedicated to sharpening my skill set even more. I turned down many jobs along the way sha, most were high paying, but i still had'nt found what i wanted. I even remember one that asked me to come down to manhattan for an interview. I went there in nice shinny suit thinking it was a real interview only to arrive for the guy to start preaching to me i enroll in their IT certification program so that i could increase my chances of getting work.

I took a deep breath, analyzing all the horse shit wey the guy just yarn...

Me thinking out loud: [ok so I go college to burst my ass for 4 yrs, school loan and all...I come graduate with BS in computer Engineering and some yeye guy dey follow me yarn rubbish say make i come enroll in cisco networking program]

mehn come see anger and frustration, i was so mad ehn! nah small remain make i whoz the guy. Why he no yarn me all this nonsense over the phone? instead of deceiving me with fake interview.

God Dey sha. Aluta Continua!

Anyways one fateful day i got a phone call from Georgia, and after the first phone interview, they asked if i wanted to take a free trip down south for a one on one.

ATL had a lot of hype at that time. I decided to pursue the opportunity, and of course your boy aced the interview. They went further, presenting an offer good enuff to drag me outta NYC. The rest is history.

FYI, that guy that got fired actually ended up getting work elsewhere. He even got a 20k or so pay increase.

Sometimes we are in a situation we really don't like that much, but we settle, mainly because of fear of the unknown.

One thing that separates the happy, successful and accomplished people from the Average joes is confidence & willingness to take risks.

Ok back to work. No long ting today. I even learnt some cool stuff today @ work sef. Self motivation is nice to have.

I leave you with a funny naija video i found on naijaRyders.com. I thought it was hilarious. Chei! lol..only in Naija!