It's the weekend peeps, and instead of the usual "no money","Dear God,bless my hustle" rants, i just want to thank God for the job i have.
I don't know about you, but i'm a very loyal person when it comes to work. It's difficult for me not to put in my very best wherever i find myself working.
It's how we were all raised and it has always paid off.
Anyway, i started working for Visafone Communications Limited immediately after my Youth service and suffice to say, those were the years of toil where majority of my time and efforts went into. Believe me , it wasn't easy.
Of course, we were all still on the lookout for better opportunities but i ensured i gave it my all. My Boss, ahh....the formidable Lynda Amechi was one of those bosses who put you through the wringer to ensure that the job gets done and boy o boy, was she a tough cookie.
After a while,we were managing about 81 shops across the country and believe me, that was no mean feat. Then comes the rude awakening, after about six years of this, the company decides to gradually fold up and majority of the staff are given the boot. yours truly included.
To be honest, it wasn't really a rude awakening, it was something that we all saw coming a mile off but we still threw our backs in to try and save the situation. Mistake number 1.
With hindsight now, i should have re-doubled my efforts then at getting a better job rather than wait till it all came crumbling down.
I was left without a job for about three months but fortunately for me, i was blessed to get this job with NairaBET soon after. The story of how it happened is one to still muse over months later.
I got two notices about the position a day before the interview- One from my big brother Nnamdi and another from an old friend Collins.
I went for it and after having series of tests and interviews with various people the next day, as well as slugging it out with about a hundred other applicants, i was offered the job! It was kind of anti climactic as even though there were so many people there that day, something just told me the job was mine. Yeah..i was that confident.
Anyway, as light is different from darkness, that's how different this job is. To put it a bit clearly, i'm becoming terribly spoilt here. After the killer pressure, high octane lifestyle of Visafone, this is kind of well...laid back...but at the same time, very challenging as well.
My boss now is a woman as well but she's the polar opposite of Lynda. She's basically given me a free hand to run my department but still oversees generally. She's not a bothersome boss but is very firm when it comes to how the business is run.
Its really a blessing.
The only issue is it doesn't pay as well as Visafone and so before i start moaning about my broke status and begging the Almighty to bless my hustle, let me just end this post.
Cheers people. TGIF.
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