Learning from Peller’s Job Interview: Beyond Degrees — The True School of Life
Peller never set foot in a university, yet he’s built a reputation—and a fortune—that many with master’s degrees can only aspire to. Now, here’s the lesson: as aspiring professionals, we should all take a moment to reflect.
The education you get in school is valuable; it makes you educated and sets a foundation to enable you to achive nany in life, . But the real wealth comes from what you learn outside of the classroom—through life’s experiences, challenges, and opportunities.
Going to school is just the start. If you avoid learning from life’s lessons, you’ll have to learn through suffering. Life is the biggest teacher of all. Sadly, many people who try to work for Peller are those who criticise his grammar and success but miss the point. Most of them are online correctors with a know-it-all attitude; we call them online professors, but they struggle to think creatively and create value for themselves.
Peller isn’t insulting anyone; you who attended did to yourself, it’s not bad that you attended, it’s normal, because if you want to earn, you need to be humble, or you go create your wealth is possible only, you have refused to think outside the box.
.Peller is revealing an important truth: to succeed, you need good standards to maintain your ego or and a willingness to learn from life and frget shame and class to make the money. People always follow the money, and Peller has money because he understands this.
So, let’s learn: stop equating education with only what happens inside classrooms. Education is lifelong. To truly grow—and to truly earn—you must differentiate between being educated and being wise through experience.
Stay hungry for more than just certificates. Grow, learn, adapt, and remember—life itself is the biggest school.
The above submission is a reaction from
Nigerian TikTok star, Habeeb Hamzat Adelaja, better known as Peller, who come under fire after a video of him interviewing dozens of jmaster graee holders, ob seekers for a ₦500,000 cameraman position went viral online.
In the video, several men and women were seen sitting and standing outside Backbox Studio in Lagos, all hoping to be picked for the role.
Many of them claimed to have master’s degrees, sparking outrage and disbelief among social media users.
“Peller and his 20 master’s degree holders are applying for a cameraman job with 500k monthly pay. Omoh, even girls dey there too,” the post read.
Within hours, the clip attracted over 2.6 million views, thousands of shares and comments from online users,
While some viewers found the scene amusing, others said it reflected the tough state of Nigeria’s job market.
A Facebook user, Fagbenro SmileLee, commented, “Imagine look at the way he’s talking to them, especially the guy that corrected his English. He is using them for content. This life has no balance indeed.”
Another user said, “From university to working for Peller, that did not go to school. God abeg ooo.”
online users wrote, “Omo these are people with degrees in different fields but look at. Take your fight against poverty seriously, abeg o.”
Another user wrote, “Which job will give you 500k as a master’s holder in Nigeria? I bet he did it just to get back at them that he’s not educated, now he’s employing them.”
Life is worse when you don’t have money and don’t have worth, but in Nigeria, can you have self-worth without money?