Here is my story after my advance level certificate.
In 2018 I had my GCE Advanced level certificate with the following subjects; Economics, Geography and history. I was happy and I excited when I left G.B.H.S Mendong to go to the university.
After my result all my relatives promised me nice things but we are in 2024 no one gave me anything.
So I told my mom I wanted to do Economics at the University of YDE 2 (SOA).
She refused, she told me it is too far so I accepted to do Geography in the University of YDE 1.
I registered in the university and during that time I started reading books in personal development and business.
It totally changed my way of seeing things and I started asking myself the following questions;
- What is my goal in this life?
- What is my talent?
- Which is the right profession for me?
One day I googled the sentence “what are the future jobs in Cameroon”.
On the search result page, I saw the following answers;
- Web development
- Digital marketing
It reminded me that in Form 5 at Saint Stephens International college I was the only student offering computer science.
Unfortunately for me I failed Computer science in the GCE Ordinary level.
Here in the university, I couldnt offer computer science since I was weak in maths.
So, since I was so attracted by programming and digital marketing so why not train myself in these domains?
While in the university our delegate one day passed an announcement about “la bourse panafricaine”.
This was a program which offered training in IT domains like; initiation in computer science, secretariat , web development and graphic design etc.
I registered in initiation in computer science and I failed to obtain my certificate because I never had 12 average.
I didnt get discouraged in May 2019 I registered in a similar training program at the faculty of science.
This time around I registered in the web development course and at the end I obtained my first certificate.
After the training my Teacher MR.Cabay gave me the contact of his friend Stanley .
Stanley was a software engineer and he built the app called KAWLO.
Kawlo was an app which helps GCE students to get passed GCE questions in all subjects both in PDF format or physical formats.
After my certificate I failed to pass and go to level 2 .
So I repeated level one and in March 2020 I stopped going to the university.
I never saw my place there and I wanted to learn digital marketing and web development.
My objective was to work from home and that is when I contacted Stanley for help.
Stanley was my mentor for years and thanks to him I obtained my certificate in INBOUND MARKETNG on Hubspotacademy.com in 2021.
After obtaining my certificate I taught about what to do to make a bit of money.
I told myself why not sell eBooks?
I started downloading eBooks and started advertising it on Facebook and WhatsApp.
For a whole year I couldnt sell up to 10 eBooks people never wanted to buy eBooks.
In 2022 my mom told me to choose a school where I will learn web development.
I was so happy and after some weeks I asked my friend Engama loic where he did his training in web development.
He told me SEED DIGITAL SCHOOL at Accacia, I rushed there and in October 2022 I registered there.
I registered for a one year training program in web development.
Around November 2023 I came across an ad on Facebook advertising a website.
I clicked on the ad then I visited the website.
The website was not that pretty but the system behind the website was great.
The owner of the website charged 30,000frs to all people who wanted to sell their products on their website.
I was surprised how people can make money which such basic website.
Then I challenged myself to create a similar website like this and in January 2024 my Website Nearshop.cm was life.
Today thanks to my website Nearshop.cm I make at least 100,000frs each month while working from home.
I could achieve this result faster if I was oriented properly after my GCE advanced level certificate but I had to struggle a lot.
I created and eBook where I share my experience after my advanced level.
I created this eBook to help all GCE holders to make proper decision before registering in any university.
You must know what you want first before taking any decision because if you make a wrong choice.
You will regret it for life and you may end up depressed for nothing.