Like most white-collar workers, Andrew Ejike gets dressed and leaves his house at Enugu town in the afternoon. A computer notebook bag, which he carries like a suitcase, suggests that he is going to the workplace. If he returns home in the day, his neighbours often ask:”How was work today?” And he answers by saying,”Work was fine”.
Interestingly, Ejike does not have a job, and certainly does not have a formal job. He is unemployed.
However he has’created’ a’job’ for himself. He is, more or less, a ‘professional’ punter. Sports gambling is exactly what Ejike does and if he leaves for’work’ each morning on working days, the’workplace’ he goes is actually any sports pub around town.
On getting to the pub, Ejike would install his laptop, connect to the Internet using a mobile device, open the web site of any of the cellular sports gambling companies and begin working on forecasts, or permutations, so as to think of the stakes he’d set to your day.
A bachelor’s degree holder in Estate Management from a national university, Ejike was sustaining himself and his young family with profits from sports gambling after failing to secure a steady employment since he graduated over 10 years back.
In a chat with our correspondent, Ejike clarified that he dropped two previous jobs after the companies he had been working for closed down.
“The pay from the jobs was not much anyway but I think there is dignity in labor. I was also hoping that along the line I’d get something larger and more secure. But I couldn’t even hold on to these tasks because the companies closed down and nothing better came along,” he explained.
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