Your first 1M, 10M or 100M is not the money that will bring your family out of poverty. It is also not meant for big-boy/girl lifestyle. I have said this before and I hope my co-young Nigerians can learn. I know 1M looks like a very small money but for some, that’s the highest money you’d ever encounter AT ONCE in your life and whatever you are able to do with it can either make or mar your future. Around June-August 2020, I got my first job on Upwork and made about $1500 from it after paying others who worked with me. If I remember vividly, that was not even up to 1M as at then. But it changed my life positively and for good!!! Guess what, my lifestyle didn’t change too much just because I got that kinda money. As a matter of fact, I put most of the money in some of those investments that trended during that Covid period and was lucky enough to make 20-25% monthly till December before I pulled out (which thank God I did, as by January it crashed). That money was part of the initial capital for the gas plant that started running by April 2021. You know the funny thing was that I didn’t get another job between August and early December 2020 on Upwork. Imagine going from that good start to a 4-month dryness? Big time “enugbe”. The next job I got, I did the interview and exam late December and started working with them by 10th of January, 2021. That went on for 2 straight years. $400 monthly for the first year and $500 monthly for the second year. In between this, I had a few consistent clients and some one-time gigs here and there. By December 2021, I got another gig that paid between $500 – 1k monthly depending on work done and lasted about 8 months. In 2022 as well, I got a one-time $1k job on Fiverr. I lost both Upwork and Fiverr accounts in November and December 2022, consecutively! In between all of these, I consistently ran my tutorial (Highflyers Tutors) and 2 gas stations (opened the first at April 2021 and the second at April 2022). I didn’t disregard my physical businesses just because I was making some good money, as you may call it, online! My lifestyle still did not really change so big as I knew I wasn’t there yet. If not that I changed my mind and decided to relocate, I honestly hoped I’d get to a point from physical businesses where I’d make at least 1M monthly since I knew freelancing was not always consistent! My rent was less than 200k per year. That was something I could make in 2 weeks or max of a month. I knew people who made $10k or more and blew it. As at same 2021, someone I knew faintly made about 60M, slept in hotels and went to clubs for close to 6 months until he blew that money till the last drop finished! They’re mostly yahoo boys, btw. So, as I said earlier, your first financial breakthrough isn’t what will pull all your family out of poverty. It is also not for living large and showing off that you’ve arrived! Rather, it’s a seed that, if used or invested well, can take you to greater heights and eventually help your loved ones as well. But if misused, you might end up poorer than you used to be! YOU ARE NOT A YAHOO BOY so you shouldn’t be trying to use your breakthrough money to impress anyone.

Me! Shey e le n shiere ni

This Egbon wey dey call me “omo olokun esin” that year, e ti ya werey gaan sir 😂😭😂🥵 There’s no way I’m carrying this kinda stuff around 😭😭😭

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