My days of Agony and deep pain | Contest Entry by @bright-obias

Hello steemians, welcome to my blog once again, it is basically about the days of my trouble, a contest that was brought to you by @steemalive. Read through to the end to see what i past through during those days.

This was as a result of disobedience to my parent's advice, as at 2017 August when I finished my secondary school level, I began to look for work that will at least earn me some money per month. I searched for work for weeks after my graduated from school. I later found one job, that was paying me around 10,000 NGN that's about 141.67 STEEM, then I was working as a cashier at the prominent gamble shop being Bet9ja. Below is a image of where I worked as a cashier.

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Before I started the work my parents called me as their own child and told me about the dangers of working in a place like that but I didn't listen to them. I started the work and was playing games for customers until a day came when I lost 3,500 NGN and that's was just the second week of my employment.

I began to think of how I will replace the money. On the process of that a thought came to me that I should play so from there I will extract the money and replace it for my boss but it was very unfortunate that I increased it from the initial amount to 20,800 NGN/ 289 STEEM, as a result playing for myself.

I called my boss and gave him the record of the day's work, he noticed my lost and threatened to arrest me. Then I became frustrated, the first 2 months past I didn't receive any salary. It was very tough for me then, because the reason why I started the work has not been accomplished, I could not even buy good clothes for myself.

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After working for about 7 months without salary I decide to quite the job. Around May 2018, I left the job in search of another one but then to find a job with O'level certificate was very hard so one of the days my boss called me on phone.

One thing was that he loved me very well despite that I was addicted to gambling, He asked me if I will resume work that he will increase my salary to 15,000 NGN/208.4 STEEM, I was very happy because of the amount he offered, but my parents was not happy with me, I ignored all there advises and started the work again.

I worked for him for another 8 Months Receiving only 8,000 NGN, it was a very bad experience for me but it was when I learnt my lesson that I am not meant to be working at such a place but even after I quit the job the blood of gambling started running inside of me, all through the years of 2018 - 2019 September, I wasted it on gambling the funny part of it was that I wasted more than 100,000 NGN and i couldn't win anything. Anytime I remember this years I will cry, I used to call it wasted years.

It was around September when I met a lady that introduced me to Christ Jesus. After that great encounter My eyes became open that was when I new that gambling is very bad.

I went back to my parents and asked for forgiveness, because I deliberately disobeyed them that was why I faced all those challenges and if not for them I would have been arrested by my boss, and I also thanked my boss, I made him to short more than 100,000 NGN in his bussiness but even at that he didn't arrest me. Actually it was the work of God.

Summary.

I worked as a cashier at bet9ja for 1 year and 5 months no salary. Then I was not even eating good foods it was indeed a great and terrible experience but it is actually good for a person to have some experience as it is quoted that "Experience is the best Teacher" if not for this experience today I wouldn't have been where I am today. At first i called it softwork but it wasn't really soft work, after my experience i changed it to hardwork.

My advice to people out there is that don't wait until it happens to you, you can learn from my story today, Observation is also a teacher not only experience so observe and carefully go through the article and learn from it. Thank you very much for reading.

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