***Let me start out by saying I have nothing against nurses. You may not be a doctor, lawyer, investment banker or engineer (the professions our 9ja parents like to hear) but as a nurse, you deserve respect as well. Other than when they have to give me injection, we have no beef.
I was arguing with a friend of mine (he is pre-med so he is going to become a doctor) about this issue of Nigerians coming to the US and going into nursing as if that is the American dream they left their country for. I am very set in my stance that you can make it in Nigeria. I am not talking of the Dangotes or the yahoo boys and girls. I mean hardworking Nigerians making legal money and living well (all u gbogbo bigs boys and girls "pinking" on ur bb u know ur sefs). However, I know people who are in decent jobs in 9ja (Dora I will keep saying 9ja for as long as I like) who feel like the only way their life will have meaning is if they relocate to the US. What is even scary is that a lot of the people that think like this don't have any plan of what they will do when they get to the US. Their own is let me get there first and God will take control. (If you didn't seek God's face for direction before you left, why do you want Him to take control when you get there? Shey you can do it on your own?). The truth is that people from lower quality colleges or community colleges here in the US find it hard enough to find jobs how much more your Nigerian degree from Unilag (greatest Akokites!!!!) which they may just choose to not even recognize? So why leave a comfortable life in Nigeria (that is if you do not have longer throat and if you are patient enough to come into your wealth in due time) for uncertainty, suffering and starting from square one in the US?
Oya you are here now, what is the attraction to the nursing profession? Is that the amount of time to get a nursing degree is less or what? I know the pay is decent and I also know that there is a 2 year course you can do to get some sort of nursing certification but still ki lo de? If you really have a passion for nursing, then please go for it but when you are doing it just to keep the hustle up i don't understand it. You read civil engineering in UI or business admin in OAU and you came here to do nursing because all of a sudden nursing is hungrying you? If you have made the decision to re-educate yourself, why not go for something along the lines of your interest? It is not like Nigerians are not smart people. Whatever we put our mind to, we can do (not that nursing is a non-intellectual job o). You came here for the American dream abi, you might as well fully utilize the opportunities available to do what you really want to do and not listen to the Nigerian Advisory committee that advices you "in good faith" to become a nurse. If you will still choose nursing regardless of the situation, GO ON!!! but if you will rather do something else with your life, have a re-think and research your options with other professions before turning in the application for your nursing program.
Whoa! Why so much hate and disrespect for the health care profession. Nurses are the first line of defense in the emergency room across the country. Without them patients will languish away before the doctors show up.
ReplyDeleteNow as for Nigerians that come here to study Nursing....why knock their hustles? Do you know their stories? You sit in the comfort of your home and judge. You are the one that need to "re-educate yourself".
Dearest submit,
ReplyDeleteThis is not disrespect for the nursing profession o! If you really like it, go for it! If it is a hustle, and you like it, go for it! If it is just a hustle and you couldn't care less about the job, then atleast explore the options open to you to still hustle but do something you enjoy or are passionate about. That's the message!
I am a teacher by profession.
ReplyDeleteYou on the other hand are a 20 something year old disrespectful Art/Business student or recent graduate (yes, your lack of respect show in your writing), with no responsibility. You probably still live with your parents and post your daily mundane life on Facebook. That is your "hustle"!
Your message should be directed to Nigerians in Nigeria. Of all the degrees out there, most are adamant about getting a degree in Business. Do you have a problem with that? I don't see you writing about that!
LOL ok!
ReplyDeletewow! Submit na wa for you o! You are unnecessarily judgmental of someone you don't even know. You must be one of those Nigerians who over like respect that you don't deserve. Cool down for Jesus.
ReplyDeleteI understand where Olori is coming from. Some of these Nurses have no interest in their jobs and it shows in how they treat their patients. Not everyone is cut of for the health care profession. At the same time, you have to go where the money and job opportunity is so i can't really knock their hustle.
Mr. Olori...what on earth do you think nigeria as a country offers her graduates..absolutely nothing!!!!!! so if eventually one gets his or her way to USA/Europe and decides to study Nursing and make him/herself a comfortable life thereafter, what is wrong in it...I know pple with first class degrees and Masters in Nigeria still living on hope and putting one thing or the other together just to survive, and when I say survive I mean getting atleast 2 square meal!!!!! its a hopeless country andI encourage any one who has the means to leave that country immediately, what do we start talking about...Boko Haram,???? or do you want to talk about kidnapping??? bad roads that cause accidents on a daily basis, electricity?????Am happy am out of that God forsaken country, if only I can bring out all my family members
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