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Anna's hustle

Anna's hustle

Author:Itsene

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Realistic Urban

Introduction
Being a woman is hard especially in my country Nigeria. A lot is expected from a woman yet there is a lot of restrictions on women. You are expected to get married at a certain time. If you graduate from school, they ask when you are getting married. If you are jobless, they will say that no man want a lazy dependent woman. If you are successful, you will be told that you are driving suitors away. Of you are raped, they will ask, why did you visit him? Why didn't you dress properly? Where were you coming from? If you husband beats you up, they will ask, why did you provoke him? It is always the women who are at fault. But I am Anna and I chose to succeed despite restrictions from family, friends and the society.
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  My name is Anna and I am twenty three years old. I was born to Mr and Mrs Adeniyi. I'm the third child of my parents and I have two older brothers and a younger sister. My eldest brother is Robert and he works in a bank as a marketing manager, my immediate elder brother is Christopher and he is weird and I will call him a business man because he is always buying and selling something.

  The baby of the house is my sister Rachel and she is a student at the university. She is studying Accountancy. Apart from me being her sister, she sees me as her biggest rival in everything, well, that's a story of another day.

  I just graduated from the university and I studied business administration and I am also a trained tailor. My parents think I'm over ambitious because I have dreams but is there anyone without a dream? I was looking forward to getting a job or even opening my own shop. All my mum talks about is me getting married and it's kind of annoying because I'm not ready and I doubt if my boyfriend is even ready.

  My dad is a retired principal while my mum is a nurse. She had always wanted me to be a nurse but I was terrible with sciences. My dad didn't mind if you were in science class or not, all he wanted was an impressive result. I had just moved to Abuja to stay with my brother Robert so I could start searching for a job far away from my mum who lived in Lagos. It's not as if she is not a nice woman but she can be overbearing.

  Robert has a two years old daughter who I adored, her name is Rose and I got along with his wife Tobe, she is an awesome lady who always encouraged me to work hard. She has her own business and I saw the way my brother encouraged her which made me pray for a supportive h like him. I did not have friends and it's not because I'm a shy person or anything but people can hardly keep up with me and it affects my relationship with others. Well, that's just a brief history of my life and the journey continues.

  My dream is to become a fashion designer with a name for myself since I loved fashion though my mum would prefer I get an office job and that's the reason I chose to leave home and move to another city and avoid pressure from my mum and I found myself in Abuja trying to make a name for myself. I hope to make new friends too because I left friends behind in Lagos where I moved from and hopefully fall in love but who knows when that will happen? I didn't want any pressures from relationships either.

  Well, here is my story.