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The 28-year-old in this #NairaLife was in survival mode for years. From unpaid internships to jobs that paid slightly above the minimum wage. Her first break came in 2020 when she earned ₦150k/month. Four years later, her monthly earnings stand at ₦1m.

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In 2014, Irene N. moved to Kenya for work and spent the next seven years there. But in 2021, she took an opportunity to return home. What drove her decision to stay at a time people were leaving in droves? How does she feel about this move now? She talks all about it here.

In 2021, the 25-year-old in this #NairaLife got her first big break with an annual income of $20k. She was laid off about a year after. Then she got another job that paid her $15k/year. She was laid off after a few months. Now, she has her sights set on something else and thanks to her parents and savings, she has a chance of pulling it off.

David Ezumah is a chef who’s worked at Eden Life and The House, Lagos. While in University, he unlocked an income source from cooking. For #Hustleprint, he shares how his transition from banking and finance to the culinary arts was driven by his interest and supportive parents.

This 30-year-old business exec has done multiple things for money — from managing a food business to working in HR and brand communication. But business development stuck, and it’s what brought her monthly income from ₦133k to ₦2m.

This 27-year-old’s biggest frustration is how unstable his income is despite all his hard work. In the past eight years, he’s tried several things to make money, but the one thing that's stuck has barely moved the needle on his finances.  Where does he go from here?

This 25-year-old fashion designer has had a fair share of tricky circumstances. But the consistent pattern in her story is how she always finds random people to get her out of them. 

For almost 10 years, the 30-year-old writer in this #NairaLife saw every job as a hustle he could wing. Sometimes, it worked out. At other times, it didn't. Interestingly, he's grown his income by more than 5x in the past two years. What changed?