After living in this country for a year and six months, I feel settled, which almost made me forget what this current life phase is about. It is one I long called ‘my eyes are watching God’. It’s funny that I forgot because I do not waste the opportunity to tell people how suffering huge financial losses led me to …
After yet another grueling three months, I once again got to shut down my laptop, signaling the end of yet another semester. This semester broke me. Right from resumption there was a disconnect I felt towards my studies (I still can’t place it), unlike the first semester I was wholeheartedly excited about. Something didn’t feel right with some of the …
I think when people say you have to be ready to work hard while living abroad, they are mostly referring to the culture shock that comes with earning per hour in contrast to the fixed monthly pay (sometimes commission based) obtainable in Nigeria. I was giving Musa a rundown of my experience working here compared to Nigeria and we both …
‘Life is not what I thought it wasTwenty-four hours agoStill I’m singing ‘Spirit,Take me up in arms with You’And I’m not who I thought I wasTwenty-four hours ago’ – Twenty four (Switchfoot) Someone recently asked if I don’t write anymore, and my response was I have been busy writing academic papers for the past three months.It always felt morally wrong …
‘Be careful what you wish for, ’cause you just might get it all, and then some you don’t want’ – Daughtry (Home) At times we get fixated on achieving our goals we forget to consider probable aftermaths they might elucidate. I did not give so much thought to the emotional burden that comes with moving across continents. I knew I had …
First off, I’m very happy this Year-end review was written from Australia. I got my wish to spend my birthday this year and also cross into the New Year in a different country. I came into 2022 continuing with my decision the prior year to overhaul my life and create better opportunities for myself. My major goal for the year …
I stopped updating this journal to release myself of the need to prove I had made the right career move. It began to feel like I was trying to control my life events and make them seem aspirational. It is fine to track progress, but when it became sort of pressure, Me trying too hard to prove changing jobs was …
I did a thing, something I wasn’t sure I’ll have the courage to do. I left my job for another bank. I chose to live one of my greatest fears, and true to it, it’s turning out to be the next hardest thing I have done since summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. It has always been my desire to leave the banking …
August 26, 2013 (Lagos State) – I woke up super early, half excited and half frightened. That day was the beginning of my career journey at Access Bank Plc. I had gone through the interview process, learned patience while waiting to be called for training school, went through the rigorous training school, and was ready to begin a banking career I had …
“Sometimes your life feels like a broken rollercoaster A thousand useless moving parts…” – Look up (Joy Oladokun) I came into the New Year with the mindset that this was the year of me taking less-traveled roads in my life. 2022 felt like a game-changing year that’ll come with early wins which will set the pace for how the year …