Topic: Local beliefs about remote jobs in Nigeria are seen to be associated with scam (Read 58 times)

If i have made some brief explanation on how my jobs to them but they still act like they are not satisfied and want to know more. The best idea i figured out is for them to enroll for my tutorials or they should come and learn my work so that ill teach them. My dear it is a waste of time trying to show them what you fo for a living. It wont changing anything, i have tried explaining it to them, believe if they were reasonable, to the extend of opening my companies folder to show them what i did. That alone is enough for them to believe. I have nothing to prove to any body else again in thie life.

I gree with you and na the trajectory be that. When you look back at those days when scamming start for Nigeria, you and I go gree say plenty people wey dey do late-night with their laptops dey actually scam people. But as time dey go, people don come sabi say dey get other options to make money and e no be say them go dey scam. So many people don do other works like the OP mention above, like affiliate marketing and even other jobs wey you fit do for companies wey dey outside the country. And you go dey earn your legitimate money from them.

And because of the time zone differences for our work hours with them, you no go get choice pass to stay up late for night. When you do am, e go they easier for you to meet up with your work schedules. And na why plenty people dey do late-night jobs now. Apart from that, for person like me wey dey used to writing, the fact be say I dey write for my laptops and mobile phones, and the time wey I dey enjoy to write na for late at night because na that time I get sanity and disturbance no they too dey for those periods of time. So e no even necessarily mean say I get job to deliver for late-night, but I don sabi say plenty creative jobs dey happen for those hours of time.

So if I wan enjoy writing, I dey usually wait until late at night before I do am. And e no necessarily mean say I be scammer. So we just need to change our psyche at the end of the day. And we need to make plenty young people, especially those wey dey grow, understand the basics of why people dey work even late at night, and make e no be say dem go dey attach am to scamming. So that we fit all change our perception for viewing things, and we fit be better nation as a whole.

Very important point to mention be say the way we dey think get key role to play for our lives. So the moment people start to think negatively, e go affect dem negatively. But the moment we start to think positively, e go better for us as society, and people go get knowledge of how things dey operate for the outside world, and no be only for Nigeria.

Yeah I think it's  a good idea to enlighten others on how this jobs really works and I don't  blame them to calling  you a scammer because  in this Nigeria, once you start using a laptop in the late midnights, my dear you're becoming a scammer , it's  just the mentality  of thousands  since we know majority  of the fraudsters do their works in the late midnight,  It will be very hard to justify yourself. I was also  frustrated sometimes but you should  show it from your behaviour, dressing and character that you're  different  , I think that's the only way to convince  them

I am not sure this is a global phenomenon because in the US there are thousands of work-from-home job offers, and people may have started working from home after the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nigeria, it is different, There is nothing you will ever explain to anyone who has no idea working remotely that they would ever believe that you are not doing a scam.

Two months ago, i got a new apartment, and the landlord was like, i don't need anyone doing a scam business or stuff in my compound. If you know what you are doing, let me know. I told him i was into technology, showed him some websites I designed, and he managed to believe me. When i moved in, at first it was all good in the first month, but unknowingly for me, he had sent his housegirl to be watching my movements and to spy on me anyhow she had to do it. Now he and his family feel I am a scammer and would not want any of their children or visitors to associate with me.

Its so funny. I have nothing to prove to anyone right now, anyone who thinks odd of us bitcoiners, investors, and traders, we should not let that bother us. It is what it is; you can never change their mindset towards what they believe. They will never trust you.

If it is possible, we should start advising our friends, family and people we see everyday to understand that there are remote jobs like;

Affiliate Marketing
Website Design/Graphics Design
Programming
Traders/Investors
Online Tutors/Coach

and so may others that people do to make a living off the internet so that they won't have a conclusion about anyone unless they have valid evidence.