My Return to computers! Part 1

After my failed attempt to want to study Economics in the University Of Jos through the A-level program, I soon started hearing about institutes such as NIIT and Aptech and how if you attend training with them, you would definitely get a job that would pay you at least NGN250,000 per month. Hmm, who wouldn’t want that? After inquiring and all, I knew it would be an impossible task to convince my mum that it would be money well spent. So I had now gotten a small understanding that it was no longer about studying economics, accounting or one of those popular Nigerian courses but, The Era of computers had come.

(The Terminator movie did a good job teaching me how computers were definitely going to take over the world )

Even though I was an art class student, it was time I started to lean towards a future by first getting admission to study something computer related.

The opportunity came when a friend of mine told me about going to India to study as it was the IT hub of the world. After some hard research, I found someone who helped me secure admission into a University in Hyderabad.

I joined Bhavans Vivekananda College and my day and first class was C-language. I assumed the “C” was an acronym for computers so yeah I called it “computer-language” before this class.

That’s me in the pink shirt!

Now it was time for the real school and all I saw on the board during the C-Language class was my face singing on the classroom board, or a movie playing in High-definition, oh God! I couldn’t understand a thing. There was also the rumour of commerce and computers as not a course for the meek. So the only thought that kept playing in my head was” “Quickly! Go change departments fast? How am I going to cope? ”.

I soon met a Tanzanian friend and course mate “Haji Katera” who would guide me through most of the courses I did in the first year and somehow by the end of first year,this C-language, would have become easy for me but then I had made up my mind “If I was giving a choice to pick between the commerce side or the computer side of my course, it would definitely be the commerce side. “NEVER EVER COMPUTER'S!!FINAL DECISION “.

Now that decision closed my eyes to a lot of opportunities. Each time I got a free invite to learn one programming language or tool, I ran far, I crammed enough to get me good grades and forgot everything after exams. I kept running until no one could catch me because I had embraced my commerce side with a bit of an IT swag. I had taken some high tech certifications though and after 3 years plus, I was ready to come home and to get me that job that would pay me the dream 250,000 NGN per month that I always heard about and wanted. It was time to come back home to Nigeria!!!

Stay tuned for the next chapter in this 3 or 4 chapter story. Cheers!!