Unpopular Opinion: Don'T Learn Hair Dressing And Some Other Skills Before Traveling Abroad

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People have applied for their visa, other people, they've gotten their visa already and they're just getting things by the way. In case you are new to the channel um before now. I have so many videos about coming to the uk things you need to know, for instance, the things to pack things not to bring all of those processes you might like them just check the playlist title studying abroad. On my in my channel and then um, you might find those videos useful, but in this particular one as you are getting ready, i want to um debunk um an opinion. I just want to an opinion yeah the advice that is general that is commonly given to people coming abroad, and that is about learning skills before coming abroad, not just uk anywhere going abroad. Uk us canada, wherever learning skill. Once i understand the importance of this advice, it's very very good for you to have skills, but the reason for this video is for me to tell someone out there. You don't need to mount unnecessary pressure on yourself about learning a skill before coming. Now, probably you have like me before coming to the uk yeah. I know it's not the best, but i have no skill. Okay, all my years in the uni i could have okay. No, i actually tried. I did try to learn um fashion. Designing i did. I paid for i tried, but at the end of the day i never practiced um, probably in a separate video. Maybe i should say now. Sometimes i feel like this issue of getting a skill is sometimes overrated. Okay, yeah. I understand the importance. Don'T get me wrong. I know why people are advocate for learning skills, but, let's be honest, learning skills. When i mean skills, i mean hard work, okay, it's not for everybody iphone. I believe it's not for me. Okay, you know sometimes, maybe because of how the country is talking about nigeria or some african countries or some countries of the world. That'S why people give that advice i understand, but rather than that, i believe that if you have a career path - and you know what you want to do - and things fall in favor for you, i know sometimes our plan. You know we plan, there's this saying that man propose, god dispose or something like that, but i know sometimes things don't usually work out the way we plan it by the end of the day. It still depends on other factors: okay, so learning skills. Maybe that's one opinion, i'm debunking now you don't actually, oh i'm contradicting, don't essentially have to get a skill. Why? Because of this same opinion, this same advocacy for learning skills. When i was doing my undergraduate studies in nigeria, i went and learned how to make clothes. I learned fashion design i made few clothes then i actually learned, if you ask me, but believe me all those things they are gone. You know when you leave something, it leaves you so i've forgotten everything about making dress. I can't do anything i can't even do maybe get scared. I might still remember how to, but if i watch a youtube video, my memory is like it should come back. Okay, but i don't see myself seeing clothes. Okay, i believe there are people that make clothes. That'S their career actually gon na patronize them. They are there for us people, of course, that don't anyways, that's my opinion. Let me leave this disclaimer now, please everything i'll be saying in this particular video. They are my opinion, based on my experiences. I'M not saying that it's straightforward life is not usually that straightforward. There are always segments and branches, so everything i'm saying is not like. That is the verdict. That'S not the final okay feel free to add your opinion. In the comment section feel free to do what you want, but i'm sure that this video will be useful to one or two persons, so that opinion about learning a skill, especially hairdressing. I'M here to tell you guys, you don't need to put that pressure on yourself. Don'T learn hairdressing before coming to the uk, especially as an international student in this video i'll, be giving you guys the reasons why i said so using myself as a reference point, just like you um, i myself also. I was also given the same advice that i should go and learn hairdressing before coming to the uk. It was like an instruction, an opinion and i heated to it. I went and registered. I can't remember how many thousand naira i paid. I bought the drinks, the biscuits, you know all of those things that you do now yeah. I did all of that, and i think i learned that for two months two three months, i'm not sure it was up to three months, because that was kind of very of like few months before my traveling and um i just had to because i was through This very important people say: oh yeah, making hair abroad um it's very expensive. You can make money by making people's hair. They see. All of that, that's true i'll, give you an example: okay to make simple braid like this okay. This is a simple braid to make this hair. The least you can get this hair in the uk is 80 pounds. That'S the standard, the least the least you can get anywhere in the uk. I'M not talking about discount. You can get someone that can give you this town price, probably for friendship, reasons or family reasons, but normally, if you go to a hairdresser, nobody will make this hair less than 80 pounds. That'S the least people will collect the least. This hair can cost 100 pounds. 120 pounds and in some places up to 150 pounds. So when you hear that they are not actually lying down, they are telling you the truth of how expensive it is to make hair abroad. In case you are also coming here so that you prepare your mind ahead of time what it's like to make hair now, because of that. I know if you're in nigeria, if you're in africa - and you hear this kind of amount by default. The first thing that you do is to go ahead and convert it to naira yeah when you convert it to narrative, give you a very ridiculous amount and you'll be like what to make hair or then you'll be like wow. That means i can make money. Wow. 80 pounds. Imagine if i make it every day this and that day you go and grab the opportunity to go and learn it, but it's not always the same. It hits difference when you come here. I learned it but since i came here as a matter of fact, i bought my tools before coming. I bought with uh uh, we found uh. What'S it called the brush for brushing the attachment i bought um the cotton comb. I got some even for relaxing hair. I got i got everything i needed for making hair. Yes, i did. That was how prepared i was before coming here and then well, i have never, since i came to the uk made anybody's hair. The reason is this: why i would advise that you shouldn't, if you already have the skills good and fine, when you have the opportunity you can make hair okay or you want to learn it the only consolation. I give myself why i don't regret italy learning that skill is that i feel like i'll be able to make my daughter's hair okay. I will not be so perfect because you know when you leave something it leaves you i've forgotten some of my skills. Actually, when it comes to ghana within, i can still breathe, i can still twist, but i'm going to put it at the root. I'Ve forgotten how to do all of that. I'M not that good um. So but when you come here like i said, it hits totally different guys, it's totally different, because when you come here, let me ask you: when you come to the uk, how many people do you know that you'll be making their hair? You won't most of the people coming to the uk, they barely know anyone. Maybe you know one or two and they're, not even living in the same city where you got admission or where you'll be residing. So what will you do and people here in the uk? Okay, most of the because of how expensive it is to make hair number one, and secondly, because of the not not having the luxury of time to go and sit down and make it people here live on weeks. I bet you if you are coming to the uk, i'm sure you know that one thing you need is to get weeks. If you are a lady, so people here want because it's so expensive to make hair, so they might make their hair once in five months. Once in three months, not everybody do people still make their hair once in a month rising once in two months and don't love that okay, but you still see people they live on weeks. People are always wearing wigs because of how expensive it is, and for most people it's not even about because of how expensive it is, but because they don't have the luxury of time to go and sit down and make hair here. Life is very busy if you're in the uk already you can attest to that. So when you come here, you don't know anybody. So let's say your marketing skills are very, very okay. You can do marketing, but even if it's your fellow students in the same university that you came with everybody comes here prepared people come here with um um, dreads logs and all of that people literally make hair that they can carry for up to two months. Three months, even so, who will you be making here the first few months you come here when you come here, you should focus more on getting all that jobs. There are so many jobs you can get within a few weeks of coming into the uk. That will be your main focus, because if you depend on making have to make a living believe me, you will go hungry here in the uk. So because of that, that's why? I'M advising that you shouldn't put that pressure to god and let you muslim, because when you come here believe me, you may never have opportunity to use that skill. Just like me, your case might be different. Don'T get me wrong, but the chances of you surviving by making people's hair in the uk is very, very slim, very slim. So why would you gon na waste your time and your money you are coming here? You need money to buy some other things. Why waste that money to go and learn? Well, if you have someone that can teach you to your own advantage, go and learn, but the point of this video is don't put so much pressure. It shouldn't be, like you know, do or die. I do or die affair that you must learn how to make hair before coming here to the uk. You must not, because you might not find the opportunity to when you start walking. You are walking. Okay, you don't know what your shift pattern will be. Your studies, you don't know what your timetable will look like. You might not even find time to go and mix someone's hair. So that's the reason really why you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourself. Don'T learn hairdressing if you don't have the skill already don't put pressure on yourself to go and lend this before coming to the uk, because you heard that it is very expensive to make hair and you can make it living out of it. You cannot even people that make it. Let me tell you the truth: people that make it in the uk, they have other jobs, they do their main source of income is not making hair, they do it but and mind you. These are people who already have people, people refer people to them, and sometimes they can be busy okay, but not that they still have other things. They do yeah, and i want to believe this makes sense. Like i said, these are my opinion based on my experiences, and this is not to discourage you in case. You already have the skill, but not to put pressure on yourself trying to go and learn how to make hair, because you are told that it is very luxurious. You can make money by making people's hair here in the uk, and i believe that, with these few points of mind, i've been able to convince you and not confuse you that i don't need to put unnecessary pressure on yourself trying to learn hair making before coming. Here in the uk - and i hope you enjoyed this video guys - please, if you do don't forget to give it thumbs up, let me hear your opinion, i'm really eager to read your comments if you're an influence, then here already in the uk. What are your views about this if you've learned making hair before now? Have you been using that skills tell us about it? Let me hear your opinions, i'm open. I might have to hear your views about this and people. Please read the comments section. Probably you will hear different filipinos and then it can inform your decision about what i have shared in this video. Don'T forget to subscribe to my channel. 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