Broke? Three Ways to Earn Before Your First Shift

Carry Load as an Alabaru: 120 minutes, earns ₦2,250, trains fitness at rate 0.8 — the only action in the game that pays you AND builds a career-gating skill, at the cost of energy -12 and hygiene -10. Help at the Buka (wash plates): 1750 naira per session, hygiene -8, fun -5, quick and unglamorous. Report a Crime: ₦2,000 with social +12 on top — the best social-per-naira deal in the verified data. All three are available with no requirements.

Put the numbers side by side: a single Banking shift pays ₦11,600, while roughly five Alabaru sessions match one shift — at 2 hours each, that's ten game-hours of hauling against one work shift. The conclusion the data supports: odd jobs are bridge money for your very first days (and the Alabaru is worth repeating for the fitness alone), not a career. The moment you can take a no-requirement job — Banking first, then Tech or Trading — the odd jobs stop paying competitively. Report a Crime is the exception worth keeping for the social boost.

A data-backed opening loop when your wallet is near zero: run Alabaru sessions until you can cover your first rent period plus a buffer (the cheapest verified roof, the UNILAG hostel, is ₦1,200 — one Alabaru session nearly covers it), keep hygiene above water with the cheapest hygiene actions you can find, then take the first Banking or Tech shift that fits your energy. Rent period is still unverified, so pad the buffer. From there, follow the First Week Roadmap guide — the odd jobs have done their job once a real salary starts.