I’m a student of AAU, currently in 300 level. The thing now is that I want to learn handwork (shoemaking) because I have a passion for it, but at this point, I don’t want to say I have the worst and most insensitive father ever. My dad doesn’t want me to learn handwork. He always spoils and condemns anything related to handwork. He only believes in school, school, school. He just wants me to keep going to school and not do anything else at all. When I wrote down my agreement fee, he didn’t pay for it—he just shouted at me. I saved up N200k from the monthly allowance he gives me. I have already started the work, but now this man frustrates me every day at work with calls. He keeps telling me that he didn’t ask me to go and learn shoemaking, that he only asked me to go to school.
He says that the time I spend learning is time I should be using to read. He also says that after I graduate, he will take me out of Nigeria or get me a job in any company I choose within Nigeria. He claims that what I’m learning now will be useless abroad and that I’m just stressing myself, bringing myself from top to bottom by learning shoemaking. Right now, I’m frustrated and don’t know if it was a bad decision to learn handwork. It’s barely a month since I started, and he keeps discouraging me. Please, I need your advice—should I stop the work and listen to him? He doesn’t stay in Nigeria, so I was thinking of lying to him that I’ve stopped, but he video calls me most of the time, and I’m usually at work by then. Please advise me.
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