CAN SALARY BE ENOUGH?

CAN SALARY BE ENOUGH?

"If only I have an option, I would stop this job immediately".  This was a statement from a friend, who works with a finance house. I could feel the pain and stress in her voice when she said that, and I was moved and felt so sorry for her. But, there is absolute nothing I can do to solve her problem, because the need for her to make an ends meet is paramount.

I decide to write this article to encourage and advise in my own little understanding, those who might have got entangled in the same rat race just as my friend.

"When you work, you do so for financial security. Only investment and investing can make you financially free". (c) Sean

As an employee, your salary shouldn't be your primary focus. Rather, pay more attention to what you must learn on the job that would make you a better manager of your own business in the future. "Work to "LEARN” when you are still young and not to ‘’EARN".

An employee should always see their present job as a short term goal for the realization of a long term goal. Working with an organization make you more organized. It offers you the platform to be well trained, have good corporate ethics which you can apply in your own business when you eventually set up one.

For every aspiring entrepreneurs or business owners, I'd recommend you work for an organization or a firm that has been already establish in the area of business you intend to start, even if you'll have to do it for free. Call it "INTERNSHIP or APPRENTICE" whatever. Doing this will prepare your mind for what you are about to venture into.

Below is my acronym and formula for the word "SALARY"

S- Set aside some of your salary to,
A- Acquire more assets
L- Limit,
A- Accumulation of Liabilities
R- Retire
Y- Young .  (C) Sean

Are you a salary earner? I urge you to master the acronym above and inscribe it on the tablet of your heart. Having this acronym saved in your memory, would assist you on how to plan your exit as an employee, and get you prepared of creating your own business empire.

I wish you a success in your career endeavours!

Written By,
Oluwaseun Oniyide (Sean)

Note: Not everybody can be an entrepreneur or a business owner. With your salaried job, you can still live comfortably if you are prudent enough. Get a course on Financial Intelligence; this will assist you in managing your money effectively.

Cynthia Osokogu was murdered by her facebook friend.

24 Year Old Cynthia Osokogu left Abuja in late July 2012 (According to reports, on the 22nd of July 2012). Like many enterprising young people, the post-graduate student of Nasarawa State University was a clothing retailer and had travelled to Lagos to purchase new stock.
Cynthia had been chatting with some new “friends” on Facebook for a few months. In the course of their conversations, they developed a friendship and a level of trust. These young men were also university students, they seemed normal and promised to host Cynthia when she came to Lagos.

There is speculation that they paid for her plane ticket and promised to pay for her hotel as well. Only Cynthia knows if this is true. Whatever the truth is, Cynthia trusted her new friends and had no idea that they had sinister plans.
What we know is that, these 2 young men picked Cynthia up from the airport in Lagos and drove her to a hotel in Festac. At the hotel, they tied her up, robbed her of all the money she brought to shop for her business and strangled her to death. They then left the hotel and quickly deleted her from their facebook friend list to remove any trace of their connection.

The hotel found her body and since her ID cards and mobile phone had been stolen, they could not identify her or call friends and family. Her body was deposited in a morgue in Lagos. All this time, her family and friends were praying for her safe return.

How the Killers Were Caught at some point, one of the culprits accidentally answered Cynthia’s phone and the call was traced to Festac. Therefore, her missing person’s police report was submitted to the Area E Command in Festac. This enabled her family to find her body in the morgue and also led them to the hotel. Using CCTV from the hotel, the killers were identified. According to reports, these two young men are university students who have now confessed that they killed Cynthia and she is their sixth victim – the gang reportedly specializes in luring unsuspecting young women, robbing them of their possessions before killing them.

Though there is speculation that their motive was ritualistic, it appears that it was greed and their main goal was to rob and kill. The pharmacist who supplied the drugs used on Cynthia and hotel staff have also been arrested. According to Police spokesperson Ngozi Braide, “Six people were arrested on Sunday over the incident and investigations are ongoing”. As you can see, Cynthia is one of Nigeria’s numerous social media generation girls (with BB and a facebook account), this unfortunately led to her demise.

UEFA's Best Player in Europe award Nominees Announced.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, his teammate Andres Iniesta and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo were named the top three finalists Tuesday for UEFA's Best Player in Europe award.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, his teammate Andres Iniesta and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo were named the top three finalists Tuesday for UEFA's Best Player in Europe award.

The three finalists, selected from an original list of 32 players, received the most votes from a panel of 53 reporters from each of the UEFA member associations. The final vote will be held live on Aug. 30 in Monaco during the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

Messi won the award last season. He won the Ballon d'Or in 2009 and FIFA Player of the Year awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He is the leading candidate this year, having scored 73 goals in 60 matches for Barcelona en route to breaking the club's all-time scoring record. Messi beat out Ronaldo for the European sports media's Golden Shoe earlier this year. Iniesta was voted UEFA's Euro 2012 Best Player.

Juventus' Andrea Pirlo finished fourth in the voting, followed by Barcelona's Xavi Hernandez, Real Madrid's Iker Casillas and former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba (now with Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua). Eighth-place voting was tied between Chelsea's Petr Cech and Colombian star Radamel Falcao, of Atletico Madrid. Real Madrid's Mesut Ozil finished 10th.