11/7/2023 0 Comments Im growing up too fast![]() I graduated at 20 and got my first job two months before graduation. I shut it down to focus on school and coding. I was 19 at this point and I already had a lot of money saved up from my business. My grades weren’t bad, but I’d gotten too preoccupied with making money that I’d lost interest in school.Įventually, I discovered tech through a friend and started learning how to code. I quickly became popular for this and soon started my own laundromat in school. I was washing clothes for my classmates for ₦200 a piece, even missing classes sometimes. I started with the easiest thing I could think of - laundry. I had to make money to survive somehow because my mother still had two kids (14 and 12) to take care of. What made it worse was that we weren’t close to the extended family, and my parents were all I had. My mum was a petty trader, so we quickly went from being relatively comfortable to very poor. I was 16 at the time, and I had two other siblings. I had a sheltered background, but everything changed when I lost my dad. ![]() “Losing my dad forced me to grow up” - Daniel, 24 I’m back here, living my life for them, and it feels like there’ll never be an end to it. I started making my own money, and requests for financial assistance have been pouring in from everyone. But then I graduated from school and got an awesome job. I thought it’d get better when I left for university, and it did for a while. I learned to cook at age 7 and I was in charge of all house chores. I hated every minute of it because I didn’t even know what I was doing. I’m a first-born daughter and that meant that from an early age, I had to fill in for my mum who had a full-time job.
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