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Discussion on: A beginner’s journey into software development in Nigeria.

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Ifeanyi Fredrick Okwuobi

Omoooooo you have not suffered until you try to become a software engineer in Nigeria,

  1. family members look at you as though there are evil spirits disturbing you and preventing you from leaving that your wicked computer to go and look for real work,

  2. You spend every penny on data, you don't buy new clothes, you don't drink beer you don't spend money on anything that would not help you become a better Engineer, every 2 - 3 weeks your data is almost finished and you are scheming and plotting how to get money to buy data again.

  3. Some of your former friends think you are wasting your life and they make snide comments and look at you like that person that soon end up a failure.

  4. Almost every morning you hear on Twitter a new success story of a Nigerian that has now made it and got a job in a shiny Tech company and they are super excited to Share with everyone.

  5. Just forget about NEPA/ PHCN power supply that's how you learn time management, you wake at night to use the electricity because you don't know if tomorrow you'd wake up to no electricity again and that your plan of completing Data structure and Algorithms on FreeCodeCamp has to be adjusted again.

  6. What of depression ? What of anxiety ? what of pressure to show that you are not useless, that you maybe you are smart and things are just almost impossible.

  7. But omoooooo we continue to struggle, continue to improve and continue to become better inspire of mad odds.

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Ajibadde

Mehn dude do you live in my house... Been surviving mainly with night plan and offline site
. And about Nigerians breaking through on Twitter I always look forward to those stories that my daily/monthly sip of motivation @resourcefulmind great ND well detailed article by the way

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Opeyemi Stephen

The struggle is real. I’m thinking of an idea tho...coders on this thread and other threads can gather together and pool resources for electricity and data...that sort of thing. Stay strong brother, we shall overcome

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Ifeanyi Fredrick Okwuobi

That would be nice ...