Until about a year ago, I wasn’t inclined towards entrepreneurship or hustle. At 22, residing in one of Nigeria’s most challenging cities, I held onto the belief of a promising future. Immersed in learning and research, I aspired to venture into the tech industry. However, despite the desire for skills like software development, cloud engineering, NLP, and data analysis, my main setback needed to be improved practice. Well, in tech you don’t get paid for the knowledge, you get paid for the skills and value you bring, I had that in my mind but I couldn’t practice because I needed some money to start practicing. Here’s what I was doing wrong; I was coding with my phone because I didn’t have a computer and couldn’t afford one.I was reading about cloud development and how to architect cloud resources, but I couldn’t get started because I didn’t have the money to register. I was taking free courses online and reading content online because I couldn’t pay for online classes. Let’s be truthfu...
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