violent: I wouldn't be so quick to jump on the Access Bank Job. Just cos most of those Bank Jobs tend to be repetitious and provides little incentive for growth in the long run. In another 3 to 5 years, your total experience could be summed up in a couple of lines; which may involve; posting cash balances, handling customer queries, dealing with foreign transfer requests and probably selling the Bank's products. I have often thought to myself that these aren't necessarily responsibilities that anyone would require a University degree to handle and are probably not challenging enough for an unrelenting adventurer. Not especially someone with a degree in Economics. You'd also be giving up opportunities to develop other valuable real world transferable skills and then trade in years of your life for the bank's profitability. I'm also estimating that many Nigerian Bankers from this generation will likely end up broke, angry and frustrated as their employers may be unable to pay them higher than the current inflation rates and no one else outside the banking industry will have any use for their banking experience.


I also think University of Porthsmouth is a terrible way to spend money!...Not only will you be overpaying for a degree that adds very little to your attractiveness to future employers, you won't be getting as much as a "thank you for coming note" from the British government once you are done. "Ship em back" has been the 10 downing street phrase for some time. If you aren't getting your degree from either Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL or LSE...you'd be better off keeping your money in a Piggy Bank (a bad idea tho!)

Okay, we are done with two of your choices, what's the third option? don't tell me there isn't one....or you haven't thought of one?


By now, you will probably have wished my computer had crashed before i got the opportunity to type this trash. But then, if i were in your shoes and i don't have access to a sustainable source of income and i couldn't find any other well paying job and my parents are ready to kick me out of the house and i'm having peer pressure to "step up" like my mates, i probably would take the Access Bank offer.

....if not, i would try a career teaching economics and mathematics or both, while studying hard for GMAT/GRE exams in the short term.

AjanleKoko: Is University of Portsmouth offering you a job?
If they're not, I don't see the basis for comparison here. Some people want to pay you, others want you to pay them. And you are trying to make up your mind