Good morning guy, I wish to tell you my experience working with a "One Man Business" in Nigeria.

Note: A start-up is not the same as a "One Man Business". One man Business is a business run by one person. He takes decision alone and also take the risk alone, but a start up could have one or more people to who take decision concerning the progress of the start up.

Working for a "One Man Business" is different from freelancing.

So not to keep you waiting, I will give you signs and things to look for when working for a "One Man Business" as a programmer.


1. They steal ideas.

As a programmer you are the designer, thinker , fixer and also the the one who gets the blames when things goes wrong. You can recommend an idea to solve what you are working on, when you stop working for them , they keep using your ideas without paying you any form of commission and you can't sue them because no documents was signed.

2. They want you to build the best thing after google for them.

I didn't say you can't build your own search engine but building such a project require a team work. You to work with different types of developers to achieve that. But they will want you to build there crazy ideas without considering the fact that such project is very complex without having a good developer team at hand.


3. They don't like to employ more programmers or web designer

If you finally decide to work for them, be rest assured that you will be the only one doing all the things you can do, graphic, seo, content, backup, bug fix, redesign, build, optimize, create responsive design across all platform, security and testing, email marketing, the list is never ending.

Just know that any thing you can do they will assign it to you unless they don't know. You end up doing things that are not in your job description or be ready to lose your job.

4. You may end up using your own money on some task.

5. They are not always patient

These kind of people can't work on long project or believe you when you give them time to finish a particular task. Since they are paying you monthly, they believe you should do the magic so that they won't waste money paying you every month. They will stress you out and always look for ways to cut your salary.

6. They pay very little but expect high expectations

7. Be ready to do other job apart from the one you are employ to do.

8. Don't rely on the job seek for side jobs.

9. They will want you to tech them something but don't teach them.

10. You are must likely to work with your own tools/pc.



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It's the same thing even for one man businesses abroad. The only difference is that the abroad person will pay you like 1500 to 2000 USD a month but you will work like a monkey.

There was one that wanted me to build a fullstack ecommerce app and integrate payment services for just 30k. They were promising that it's not a one time job and I will have the opportunity grow with the company and maybe even become cto when the company is well established. I turned them down.

EkenmaPeter:
Good morning guy, I wish to tell you my experience working with a "One Man Business" in Nigeria.

Note: A start-up is not the same as a "One Man Business". One man Business is a business run by one person. He takes decision alone and also take the risk alone, but a start up could have one or more people to who take decision concerning the progress of the start up.

Working for a "One Man Business" is different from freelancing.

So not to keep you waiting, I will give you signs and things to look for when working for a "One Man Business" as a programmer.


1. They steal ideas.

As a programmer you are the designer, thinker , fixer and also the the one who gets the blames when things goes wrong. You can recommend an idea to solve what you are working on, when you stop working for them , they keep using your ideas without paying you any form of commission and you can't sue them because no documents was signed.

2. They want you to build the best thing after google for them.

I didn't say you can't build your own search engine but building such a project require a team work. You to work with different types of developers to achieve that. But they will want you to build there crazy ideas without considering the fact that such project is very complex without having a good developer team at hand.


3. They don't like to employ more programmers or web designer

If you finally decide to work for them, be rest assured that you will be the only one doing all the things you can do, graphic, seo, content, backup, bug fix, redesign, build, optimize, create responsive design across all platform, security and testing, email marketing, the list is never ending.

Just know that any thing you can do they will assign it to you unless they don't know. You end up doing things that are not in your job description or be ready to lose your job.

4. You may end up using your own money on some task.

5. They are not always patient

These kind of people can't work on long project or believe you when you give them time to finish a particular task. Since they are paying you monthly, they believe you should do the magic so that they won't waste money paying you every month. They will stress you out and always look for ways to cut your salary.

6. They pay very little but expect high expectations

7. Be ready to do other job apart from the one you are employ to do.

8. Don't rely on the job seek for side jobs.

9. They will want you to tech them something but don't teach them.

10. You are must likely to work with your own tools/pc.



Add yours...

I am searching for developers to build ios annd android apps. pls reach out if you are an expert and really good. sample work is also needed. Please reach out at nuelchills@yahoo.com

obiscology:


I am searching for developers to build ios annd android apps. pls reach out if you are an expert and really good. sample work is also needed. Please reach out at nuelchills@yahoo.com

Sent you a mail

Good to know I wasn't the only one that passed through this.

Any questions you answer yes to becomes part of your job and they'll start giving expectations based on that.
They don't understand software development processes and think you can build something here and now that will scale. They're not even willing to pay for infrastructure they'll use, expect you to figure out a cheaper more stressful alternative.
They tried to force me to do digital marketing and I told them NO, tried to force me to design banner, said NO. Mind you, I was already fixing laptops and doing training.
When I finally left, I never looked back.
The only benefit was that I was able to add my first 2 years working experience to my resume.

Advice: don't carry the company on your head, look out for yourself first and limit your work to what's in your letter and be eager to say you can't do X or Y. Let them pay someone else to do it, it's not as if they'll give you the money if you did it.

valzey:
Good to know I wasn't the only one that passed through this.

Any questions you answer yes to becomes part of your job and they'll start giving expectations based on that.
They don't understand software development processes and think you can build something here and now that will scale. They're not even willing to pay for infrastructure they'll use, expect you to figure out a cheaper more stressful alternative.
They tried to force me to do digital marketing and I told them NO, tried to force me to design banner, said NO. Mind you, I was already fixing laptops and doing training.
When I finally left, I never looked back.
The only benefit was that I was able to add my first 2 years working experience to my resume.

Advice: don't carry the company on your head, look out for yourself first and limit your work to what's in your letter and be eager to say you can't do X or Y. Let them pay someone else to do it, it's not as if they'll give you the money if you did it.

Hahahahaha good experience

obiscology:


I am searching for developers to build ios annd android apps. pls reach out if you are an expert and really good. sample work is also needed. Please reach out at nuelchills@yahoo.com

Sent u a mail sir