The events that unfolded in 2020
This is neither a success story nor is it a story of failure, what kind of story is it? A story that happened, just a true story that happened.
I started the year with high hopes, after attending a goal-setting session organized by Nusaybah. We the attendees chose a particular area of our lives and highlighted our goals for the year in the chosen area. I chose Marriage 😇 and my goal was to get married before the end of the year, I had neither the means to marry nor the person that was willing to take the risk 😂. I would later develop a crush on one of the attendees and shoot my shot a month after, needless to say, she was wearing a bullet-proof blouse and the shot had no effect whatsoever
Okkkay, to the serious-serious stuff, when I said I had high hopes for 2020, It wasn't because of woman. I was eager to start a paid software development internship that would culminate into a full-time job. Things kept on going sideways as the date of resumption kept getting postponed due to circumcision... sorry circumstances. It wasn't the company's fault though, the circumstances were really beyond them and they had done all they could to circumvent it but d tin no work. We the prospective interns were getting fed up with the postponement, the company was too, and they decided not to give us further dates, they just told us they would contact us when it goes through. At this point, I gave up.
Coincidentally, I received an interview invite from a company in Lagos for a software development role, It would require me to go with certain credentials, credentials that I had submitted for the internship thingy . Since I had decided to quit the internship anyway, I journeyed to Lasgidi, withdrew from the internship, collected my credentials,and went for the interview on the following day.
The first stage of the interview was easy-peasy, a walk in the park, the only part that was supposed to be technical was the mathematics - If only they told us not to use a calculator, but we had been told in the email to come with a calculator, I went with a scientific Casio Calculator and it was an overkill, I didn't even need to write any workings on the answer sheet. I left the hall quickly, satisfied with myself. There was no question of "if" they would call me, the question was "when". I stayed over at Ahmad's while in Lagos and I left the day after the test for my dear, sweet Ilorin. I received a success message while still in Lagos but the bus had taken off and was nearing the outskirts. The next stage of the interview was the technical test that would take place exactly a week after. It was too late to stay back, so I just journeyed to Ilorin anyway.
A massive clusterfuck, that was what the second stage was. For some reason, I failed to research the tech stack used at such companies and thought that my knowledge of general software development would let me scale through. I was as wrong as possible (awap). The questions were divided into four sections:
I had read a lot about the first, but the second, third and fourth, nah... I had not worked with them or read extensively about them, so I was helpless. I am the kind of the person that knows his limits during exams, I am incapable of writing nonsense, so after writing all I knew, I left the rest blank, except the C# algorithms part, I wrote the algorithms in JavaScript 😂. Maybe one day I'll talk about how I slept during an examination, I didn't "sleep off" o, I slept. I woke up, say, 20+ minutes later and I looked around, brothers and sisters, everyone was still writing o, while I had written all I knew before sleeping. After the exam, I just went to buy Fanta and doughnut at Block 10. Only God can test me, ordinary exam will not.
Back to the story. This time around, there was no question of "if" they'll call me back, there was also no question of "when". They were definitely not gonna call me back. I carried my bag to set out for Ilorin the next day, once again. But Ahmad and Josh convinced me to stay back in Lagos and shoot my shots instead of going back and fro. Then the result of the second stage came in, guess what?😈 Ani they will not call me back seh!! I received the all-so-familiar "We regret to inform you blah blah blah" I was not touched though, rejection letter sef will not test me 😎.