Hmmm… I think there is a thin line between resilience and foolhardiness. I only pray I never cross that line. btw my own people didn’t understand Jobberman either. They might never really grab it.
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Your mum knows things 
My family (Parents & Older Siblings) have never quite gotten me. I started out being a music artiste and this was only tolerated because the knew how obstinate I could be. Music was gonna be a hard brutal journey with no guarantees on winning so I started trying understand social media in 2010 spending hours on hours on twitter, they would ask “why is this one always pressing phone”. And when I ventured into e-commerce, they always thought I should get a job since I was talented. The little success I’ve had has really calmed them and they even tell all their friends he’s the CEO of Jay Osbie. And whenever they have website and online advertising needs, they come knocking. Case in point, when your hustle starts to yield they’ll come to your side. Before then, you won’t get any respite.
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I think i now know what to tell them, ben murray bruce just talk about his common sense stuff about startups, any body who shows his parents that video should have their blessings and support. MAYBE or worse!!!
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Very nice thread. Soon we might see one where people put “how Nigerian/African parents explain their children’s startup jobs”.
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Umm… You blocked out the "@gmail.com"?
LMAO. Dead!
Why do I have this feeling you would have done well as a novelist or short story writer?!
the stories I wrote in my WAECs and NECO are enough writings for this lifetime
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I bet you wrote multiple WAECs just because you were proud of your essays.
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Not really. I was participating in the great one sitting challenge
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@Habeebsulu if your parents don’t understand and/or believe you even after that, then your case is in Shiloh.
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I was referring to @Yinka 's explanation
Its even more frustrating when you don’t read what they wanted you to read in the first place [medicine]. On graduating from CSC my dad would rather send the money for another JAMB form than for celebration. Even after that, I endured countless conversations where he would beg to send me a container from the US full of PCs and photocopy machines so that I could open a photocopy shop with my ‘computer skills’. Now he has calmed down. As for my mum, she prays that ‘everything I am doing will be blessed’ lol [love our mothers].
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LOL! 
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LMAO! At least she’s asking. What more can you ask for! 
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hehehe… I’ll just say I love my parents sha… I only had to tell them I work on the computer and they’ve been supportive ever since even though they don’t know how it works. All they just want to know is it’s legal…
I know this guy who simply lied to his parents for FOUR YEARS while he “bought” himself enough time to build a FinTech startup. He actually said that in an interview
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Whao! I thought I was alone on this. Any time my mum asks, and I take my time to explain she simply would say “Woo ko ye mi” (See I don’t understand but I pray God bless everything you lay your hands on) then we end the discussion for that day just for her to come up with the same question 2 weeks time, And I do the same thing over again. We have been like that for four years now.
This is actually very tough but the truth is, those questions push you even harder to succeed.
My mum would always come up with the same set of questions almost every week and it just seems like my answers never stick.
The most stressing one is how she just wants me to come manage her school full time and earn as much as I like but I keep refusing.
However, the little things I do for the house and the school regardless, keeps them calm. It’s all wisdom.
Then in January this year, I explained Piggybank to her and subsequently, all the processes we had to go through with the banks.
These days, it’s all prayers now and very few questions.
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