Lagos hunter

The past 2 weeks have consisted of me typing job application letters, editing my CV, writting job exams and going for numerous interviews. I'm glad that i am at least getting invited for exams and all but upset that i still haven't found a job, i mean i did get a job offer, but the hours were just terrible, i would have to work 8:00 am to 5:00pm then alternate with afternoon shift of 11:00am to 8:00pm and not to forget the alternate weekend of either saturday or sunday, put in mind that saturday would be 8:00 am to 8:00 pm and sunday 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. After i heard those hours during my interview i just blanked out, i don't exactly have a death wish yet neither was i getting any other offers, plus it was a community pharmacy and i felt oh well, those ones were the easiest to find. i wrote healthplus exam and did the interview but didn't get called back, i thought it went well, i'm not even sure what went wrong there, only explanation that made sense was that they didn't need any pharmacist around the area i lived in.

Basically jobberman and jobnavy have become my best friends. I also got this offer to register and go (RaG) now for those who aren't farmiliar with this, it means you use your pharmacy licence to open a community pharmacy for someone and get paid to do so, the negative side to this is that you cant work in organisations owned by the government in a pharmacist capacity neither can you open another premise, it wasn't a bad idea, i didn't exactly have money to open a pharmacy at the moment and the juicy government jobs weren't available, but the man was offering me peanuts, infact he offerd half of what i wanted so i rejected it.
My sister says i'm not desperate enough as i keep rejecting the little offers i get, maybe she's right, but i'm at a point where i need to settle into a more permanent job, i need something i can do long term. I also recently started to consider going into pharmaceutical sales, its the most stable aspect of pharmacy practice plus u get to have actual holidays.

I have another interview this week with reddington hospital, my exam was a blast, you know the feeling you get when you write an exam you had prepared for and you knew without a doubt you passed, that was how i felt leaving the hall. I guess the 2 interviews i have had has prepared me for this, at least now i know how to answer questions like "tell us about yourself" "what are your strengths" "what are your weaknesses" this last bit is a shitty question though, who in the world would want to answer that truthfully. I really do want this job at reddington, and i hope i get the branch closer to my home, my life would be so much better.
Here is to getting a job and moving on with my life.

*the hospital i worked in during nysc paid me my final salary, so i bought my fan, paid for data on my phone, and had enough change to go for the interviews i went for, i still have enough to pull me through for about 2 or 3 weeks.

I served my country, now what?

The final day of NYSC was great, i mean why else wouldn't it be? Everyone was excited, freedom at last!but freedom from what exactly? I had started having cold feet about 3 days earlier, what would my life be? I was going back to lagos, and you wouldn't last a week without money, i had so many things to do with money, but none at all, i had mailed my resumé to some companies, i think about 2 replied, you see i wouldnt exactly say i was bothered about getting a job because i wasnt, i was worried because i didnt know if i would get the job i wanted, mehn if u can wake up in the morning and have a good job to go to, just be thankful, after 10 months of dragging myself to work every morning, and telling everyone and their one legged dog how i hated my job, i suddenly missed it, no more getting to work in approximately 10 minutes because Lagos isnt built that way, no more salary at month end, at least not now anyway.
On the day i returned to Lagos, i took a flight, seemed like i spent all my money taking that flight, i mean the flight was 16,000 fair by all flight standard, but then i had to pay an extra 5,000 for extra luggage, then 3,500 at the airport to take a cab home, almost 25,000, ABC transport would have gotten me home with less than 10,000, anyway i couldnt even complain. I called one of the companies that had gotten back to me to remind them of the interview the next day, only to be told the position had been filled.
Home finally! I dropped my bags and did a physical check pf everything i had, and this is what i had

Room to myself
Sewing machine
Tons of clothes/shoes
Tons of makeup
Tablet with internet access
My discharge certificate
10,000 physical cash
20,000 i wouldnt get till the next week
Free food for now
Insanity workout

That was ALL i had, as in ALL!

I also wrote down what i needed

Standing fan, preferably rechargeable
To fix the sockets in my room
To fix my sewing machine
Bedsheets
Mosquito net
Toiletries
Money to travel to my alma mata and get my certificate
Money to get registered as a Pharmacist
Mobilisation money i.e to look for job and move around
Money to survive till ending of October

Everthing totalled 50,000 some items werent so urgent but even the urgent ones would be over 40,000

Surviving is HARD!!!!!!