Unbelievable!! She Hawked Kerosene For Years On The Streets, But Now She Works For BBC

A Nigerian Lady, Ruona J. Meyer shared amazing story of her lifting from grass to grace after she got a big job with British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, which she started on Monday, 12th of June, 2017.

She revealed in her story that while hustling many years ago, she sold kerosene in front of her mother’s shop in Lagos now she has reaped the fruit of her labour because she did not loose focus.

She wrote:

‘God sure has a sense of humour; my first ever by-line in journalism came in a THISDAY newspaper on 12 June 2003.
Today makes it exactly 14 years of sweat, tears, grit, sacrifices, smiles, successes and blessings. I have had the privilege to be mentored by great journalists including Simon Kolawole, Paul Ibe, Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, Kadaria Ahmed, Dele Olojede, and sound professionals like Femi Adeniran, who picked me to work under him at GTBank HQ.
I cannot thank you all enough. You have raised me to be a go-getter; I was the girl who would walk all the way from Cele Bus-stop back home through Ilasa to Isolo at midnight after “production;” the one who had a small business selling kerosene by the bottle in front of my Mother’s “chemist” shop at Ilasa, while racking up by-lines for Thisday. I was the girl who had no degree, yet wrote speeches for Tayo Aderinokun (God rest his beautiful soul).
These people moulded me in a way that it has become second nature to me to see every setback was a learning curve, every challenge as an exercise to overcome and smile back on. Thanks to you all, I have had the privilege of an extensive professional life; Reuters, the FT, and who knew I would now be paid to go to work, for the BBC, and be “allowed” to speak Pidgin??

14 years since it all started, I am back here, in Nigeria, and if anybody reads this, just know that with hard work, EVERYTHING is possible and what is yours will be yours.
Invest in yourself. Do things the right way. Surround yourself with the right partners, mentors, family members and friends – quality over quantity.