Lack of Job Pushes Me Into Selling Liquid Soap

Babalola Yusuf Abiola

Many youths today are taking their future in their own hands improving their advantageous business environment and strengthening their positive attributes-quality of life and achievement-orientation. More so they are finding out that there is ample opportunity for everybody in the nation landscape which offer a rich array of business options. 

 

So it is for Saheed Odusoga who finished his National Diploma (ND) at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta, with brilliant results. After completing his industrial training he immediately put in for his Higher National Diploma (HND).

 

 But while still anticipating for school, he was also thinking of how he is going to improves is financial status. The idea of how to make money quickly came to him. It is to learn how to make liquid soaps and other washing soaps.

 

Now so many years after, he has become a boss to himself and equally enjoying the profit coming from the sales of the product. 

 

 

• Saheed Odusoga preparing the liquid soaps

According to him, he pointed out why he embarked on the production and sale of liquid soap which is the fear of unemployment in the country, “the rate of unemployment in the country pushed me into learning how to make liquid soap and it has been of help to me right from the time I started.”

 

Odusoga who is now a graduate of Mass Communication also organizes seminar for his colleagues and every other interested members of the public that wish to learn how to produce the liquid soap and other product varieties.

 

Odusoga said,”while I was on national service I taught residents of the area I served how to be independent producing and selling liquid soaps, those persons I taught back then are doing fine in the business that they call to thank me for what I have done in their lives.”

 

 Months after ending his national service, Odusoga could not get a job so he decided to go fully into the sales of the product pending the time he gets a better paid employment.

 

“I have this panic right from my secondary school days that after graduating getting a job might be a herculean task due to the experiences of my relatives and neighbors that have graduated, so in other not to live from hands to mouth I decided to learn something that would sustain me after my graduation.”

 

He continued, “I went to a friend who engaged himself in producing and selling liquid soaps after searching for a job and he could not get one, so he taught me how to package liquid soaps and other variety such as air fresheners and since then it has been a success story selling evergreen liquid soaps.”

 

The young graduate who said he struggled meeting market demands because of his meager capital but said “I aspire to be among one of the well know entrepreneur in or outside the country, with hard work and perseverance I will get there.”