Dear young graduate, 

You need to make some money to keep body and soul together? You also need to acquire some basic work skills while you are waiting for a job?

Here's my advice:

1. Go to relatives and friends, raise 100k

2. Buy a used laptop for 65k to 70k

3. Buy an internet modem for 10k or less; ensure it comes with some free data for the first month 

4. Go online, find trainings and videos on Microsoft office suites like excel, word and power point.

5. Pay great attention and train yourself to become good in Excel. Understand the most used Excel formulars at the work place. Become an average Excel user through self training.

6. By 2 months of consistent self training, you should be ready to offer some service. Get a simple name that explains to people that you can offer data entry services. Open a Facebook and instagram account about your data entry services.

7. Walk up to a cyber cafe around the house, or anywhere that you might not need to pay for transport, offer to work for free, doing typing and other services for their clients. The idea is to teach yourself customer relationship management and to work practically on data entry jobs. You will learn things like working under deadlines, satisfying customers, working on various kinds of data entry document formats, dealing with clients who aren't even literate but need you to do a document for them, and loads of other stuff.

8. Be cheerful, be loved, come each day as though you were paid to do the job, keep learning, keep growing. Keep pushing yourself online, keep posting stories of your work on social media, register on freelance websites and get data entry jobs. Keep a low head. Keep pushing, keep improving. Above all, love what you do.

9. Sell to your network. Start posting on your personal facebook page about your data entry skills. Tell your church, tell your friends parents, tell your school alumni, tell your network. Be relentless.

10. Keep records of every job and every earning.  You might have saved enough to visit some small businesses. Go to them and offer to help with data entry. 

Offer to visit weekly and track all their sales and expenses in simple excel sheets. 

Offer to help organize their filing. 

Offer to help them get rid of paper everywhere. Be great at it, be loved, be cheerful. 

In a few months of working, consciously ask each satisfied customer for referrals. 

See you at the top!