While growing up, it is common to see young men going to learn technical or vocational skills in Nigeria. They will become apprentices in mechanical, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, vulcanizing, and other skills. If you go to this workshop, you will see many youths there learning skills.
These days, the number of young people who are learning this handwork has reduced drastically. These workshops These days are somehow empty and you will see mostly men in their forties and fifties.
I was discussing with a mechanic today and he told me that the youths are now focused on online jobs. He said many of the apprentices who came to learn skills dropped out. He claimed that most of them are impatient and want quick money.
He claimed that these youths are now focused on G and Naija bet. I don't know how true his reasons are. How you reason am?
It's obvious that a lot of our youths want to make the easy money so that's why they are not patient to become an apprenticeship before becoming boss. However, majority of our citizens have started learning online skills and it looks like that's favouring them more than other physical skills. Although, the crypto space have also provided a chance for everyone to take advantage of it and currently many are into trading and crypto currency investments.