Elizabeth Ayoola

So I thought that I was going to get both a city with more easily accessible opportunities and lower costs of living relative to London, which is where I was coming from, which we know is an expensive city.

Now, after spending, wow, most of my 20s in Nigeria, in retrospect, it turned out that I was living in a relatively high-cost city.

And the opportunities that I thought I was going to get, I didn't get.

Because one, I was living in a city with a lot of nepotism, and I didn't have access to those opportunities.

And another thing is the Naira kept devaluing.

So the value of the money kept going lower and lower.

But with that said, I wouldn't change my decision because living in a big city equipped me with the transferable skills that I needed to get to where I am today.

So that's something I took away from it.

I have a question for you, Sean.

So when you say living in a big city helped you to get your career started, are you referring to the job opportunities that you were able to access or the network that you was able to access?

Let's get on to the next part of the listener's question.

The option of saving money early but having fewer opportunities in the future.

What are your thoughts on that, Sean?

I love that you say that, and this might sound really woo-woo, but I was reflecting on the past decade or so of my life and the way my career has gone.

And I had such a clear plan of exactly how it needed to look.

And I thought that I could control the outcome by, A, controlling the city I live in and the people that I talk to and all these things.

But the truth is, sometimes opportunities are just a matter of luck.

And yes, you can create your luck by putting yourself in the right place in the right time.

But just like you said, you don't know where these opportunities are going to come from.

So I think it's just putting one foot in front of the other and making decisions that align with what you need at the time.