Hacky Review$

Some of your friends are only around because you haven’t levelled up yet.

There’s someone from your past who still uses you as their “what if.”

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Let me just say what everyone is feeling but nobody wants to post - Nigerians are BROKE. not “I can’t afford a vacation” broke. like “I don’t know how I’m eating on Friday” broke. and we’re not talking about one or two people. we’re talking about a whole generation of working adults who are surviving month to month on fumes and prayers. the cost of everything has just refused to behave. rent? up. food? up. transport? up. your salary? exactly where it was two years ago. sometimes even less because your employer didn’t adjust for inflation and you were too scared to ask. so what did we do? we found a way. we downloaded the loan apps. first it was one. then two. then somehow you have Branch, Fairmoney, Carbon, Palmcredit all sitting on your phone like a family you never asked for. you borrow ₦20k just to buy food and pay transport until your salary drops. not for luxury. for SURVIVAL. and the thing that kills me is that we’re not even ashamed anymore. we’ve normalized it. “let me check my Branch limit” has replaced “let me check my savings.” that sentence alone should tell you everything about where we are as a country. but here’s the part nobody talks about - the repayment. you borrow ₦20,000. by the time interest and “processing fees” and whatever else they cook up in that app, you’re repaying ₦26k, ₦28k, sometimes ₦30k. so you clear the loan, you’re back to zero, you’re hungry again, and guess what? you borrow again. it’s a cycle. a very intentional, very profitable cycle for them, not for you. you’re not climbing out of anything. you’re just running on a treadmill that’s slowly speeding up. the real problem is that most of us were never taught how money actually works. nobody sat us down and explained savings structures, budgeting systems, how banks quietly eat your money, or how to actually build a buffer so you’re not one bad week away from panic-borrowing. that’s what needs to change.

Honestly? That unbothered is a skill you have to learn, not something you just wake up with. I used to explain myself to everyone. Justify my decisions. Seek validation before I moved. Wait for people to understand me before I could feel okay about my own choices. That thing will drain you slowly and you won’t even notice. You’ll just wake up one day feeling tired for no reason and wonder why. The hard lesson was realizing that some people are not confused about you, they just don’t want to see you win. And no amount of explanation will change that. You can talk till your mouth dry, they will still misunderstand you on purpose. The day I stopped explaining myself everything shifted. Not because I became cold or stopped caring. But because I finally understood that peace is something you protect, not something you beg people to give you. Do your thing quietly. Let results talk. Not everybody deserves a front row seat to your process. That lesson cost me friendships, energy and a lot of unnecessary stress before it finally clicked. 😮‍💨

After NYSC I just started bombing applications, like 20 jobs a day minimum. No chill. Out of everything I sent, only 2 companies ever replied. TWO. 😭 First one was an automobile company, PA role. They told me to resume after the first interview. I said no thank you because the second company was giving me better vibes. International company, better opportunity. I had to pick one so I went all in. Did my interviews with them, thought it went well sha. Opened my dashboard after the second interview and saw FAILED staring at my face. 💀 You know what I did? I just smiled, said “we move” and opened Uber. No breakdown, no tweeting my pain, no crashing out like some people were doing publicly. I just quietly went home. The only thing that actually pained me was the transport money I spent going there 😭✈️ that one entered differently. Fast forward few weeks later, a mail just landed in my inbox talking about documentation and next steps. I was genuinely confused. Like… documentation for what? I FAILED. The dashboard told me so with full confidence. I could have easily deleted that mail and moved on with my life. But something told me to reply. So I did. They said they’d get back to me in 24hrs. 24hrs came and went. Then 2 days. Then 5 days. Nothing. Pure silence. So I sent them a message. Politely but directly that “you promised 24hrs, it’s been 5 days.” No vex, no insult, just a simple follow up. They replied within MINUTES. Full document list. Then medical tests. Then onboarding. 😭🙏 I keep thinking about it till today. What if I had ignored that mail because “I failed”? What if I didn’t follow up after 5 days of silence and just assumed they forgot me? I would have literally walked away from my own job offer without knowing. That job gave me a soft life as a fresh graduate. Moved different after that. So if you’re out here job hunting and the dashboard says failed. Stay calm.