Hello Hive Naija come travel with me

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I am starting this post in one of those tricycles we have running in Nigeria. I'll do my best to attach a picture to it. It's 7:20.

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I'm heading to my primary school in Portharcourt from Yenegoa for my first school leaving certificate.

I got to know that my teachers have been suffering due to bad governance. It's so unfair that these people had dedicated their lives to the mission of teaching the new generation after bringing up my generation and get nothing for it.

I'm in a taxi heading down there to portharcourt now and it is 7:19 listening to finish line by chance the rapper and Kirk Franklin.

Before getting to the junction where I took the tricycle to Azikoro, I passed through a slum area that had closely packed houses. Saw some guys that could really benefit from blogging like this. They usually do menial jobs around the area.

But who am I to judge they probably have major plans that give them joy you know?

Then I saw an old girlfriend who I had to end things with because she wasn't seeing the future the way I saw it...we're friends now though.

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7:36 and I'm about to call my girlfriend...It's a new relationship and I'm optimistic cause we all need love don't we? But we usually find out who is there for us on our death beds...yet I'm still happy that she's with me now.

I'm going to my primary school to get my primary school testimonial. Everywhere I've tried applying for a job has asked me for this document so I might as well go get it especially this time that the Hospital management board of Delta state said all I need to do is show my original documents.

The view of the road is nothing you've not seen on Nigerian roads just bushes and a road ahead of us. At this point, there is no network so my Youtube music has stopped working.

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My new goal is to finish all research papers by Jordan Peterson and conduct research with web design. But I have a beef these days against hustle culture, I hate to feel like I have to do something that I really don't want to. So, while this would be amazing research that I would eventually post on hive...I do not want to rush it.

I want to take a break now to read with an audio reader one of Jordan's work on personality I started a while ago. Then I'll check decrypt for news I can follow up on…

I'll do my best to post this this evening.

It's 9:03 I'm in choba now, The driver is doing me a favour by going an extra distance.

I'm heading to my primary school now. The research paper I read discussed personality...One distinct paragraph talked about how de Jang et al.’s (2002) work found genetic factors that affect personality.

9:11, and I'm yet to eat...fucking hungry...I'll eat when I get these documents ...I'm on my way to UST to get my files from my primary school...I'm on a bus.

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If my face will have me, I'll probably grow a goatee seeing as I'll be a goat psychologist someday.

I think being on the road, increases your chances of dying so much in Nigeria, I'll check the data later but I think we are among the top 10 most dangerous roads. I've been on the roads too much and it's so unsafe.

Pray for me so this is not my last journey cause it scares me.

In addition, we have one of the worst power supplies.

I plan to develop a web 3 site that will pay for my research in addition to having funding from grants that will be interested. BAT will be a good token, I was also thinking of incorporating Mediblocks.

Mediblocks plans on incentivizing medical research. Then I'll add my own token to Hive engine...hopefully.

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Still on the bus, chatting with @gentleshaid on discord about my identity crises...and my options. Told him I was working on this post. He told me about @abigail-dantes… my new role model. I hope to learn from her. We talked about those who have managed to put together different aspects of their life.

Listening to These hands by Samm Henshaw. The lyrics say:

I'm working on my masterpiece and I'm making it with these hands.

I still hate hustle culture, what's meant for me will come naturally. While typing out this part...I almost missed my bus stop and had to take a long route to my destination.

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I finally got to the school and found out today is children's day so the school is locked up.

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So let's calculate the waste…I'm at Genesis restaurant

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sitted close to the window so I can be inspired while writing.

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DJ Khalid dressed up as a Spartan to do a video...that's cool.

The total waste is like $1.9…

Finally eaten as I rethink my next destination (picking up my original documents)

It's 10:40 and the food is a little too oily and for a rice special...there seems to be nothing inside it.

Turns out MTV is doing some DJ kahlid remembrance stuff. That cryptocurrency song he did with Jay-Z and Naz had few naked girls showing off their boobs and ass...weird…

Isn't it weird how that's weird?

The girls were mostly in very fashionable clothes.

Now that I have the chance to...I might as well edit this work...its 11:07. I use grammerly and voicereader on my phone and a similar when I'm using my software on my laptop.

Done editing this for now and its 11:49.

I'll schedule the post for tomorrow.



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Got a feeling I travelled with you while reading through this. Why do institutions in Nigeria still demand primary school cert even when you already have a Ph.D.? It sounds absurd to me, perhaps I am just being paranoid. You ought to have known that May 27 is children's day, I forgot to tell you that while we were chatting. You also spelled my username wrongly, I would not have seen this had it been that I decided to look through the community. I wish you the best sha. You gotta try again another day. Thank goodness the cost was not much.

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Glad i could take you on the journey with me.

I'm a medical doctor though a fresh graduate...it still doesn't explain why they need it. Maybe they want to know how I went through life. When it comes to Nigerians and our ways I think we'll still need Europeans to explain what it is we're actually doing.

I'll correct the spelling I thought I had sorted the editing out.

I finally have gotten a place in Anambara...and I'll be traveling in less than 2 weeks. I'll need it before then...I'll use that opportunity to park all my things from Portharcourt

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