Story Of 23-Year-Old Female Mechanic Proves That You Can Be Anything In Life If You Believe
- Funmilola
- September 14, 2017
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What a man can do, a woman can do better. The story of this 23 year old lady mechanic is a perfect example for that phrase.
Margaret Bassey an Akwa Ibom state indigene, is a female mechanic who specialises in fixing broken down vehicles in Abuja. The young lady is the last child among three girls in her family.
Margaret didn’t set out to become a mechanic, she took up the job after her uncle enrolled her in the Nigeria Opportunity Industrialization Company in Lagos, as a means to help her out of her financial situation.
After spending a year and six months of rigorous training in Lagos, she arrived Abuja with dreams of making it in the male dominated occupation. Margaret got a job at a mechanic shop at Lokogoma, around airport road at N30, 000, monthly salary.
The journey to been a professsional mechanic hasn’t been a walk in the park for Margaret as she had faced a lot of discrimination whenever she introduced herself as a mechanic. However, some people, especially the men took her seriously, supported her because of competence.
Margaret spoke to Okwe Obi of The Sun Newspaper and recalled how her boss gave her a rather funny test.
She said;