Nigerian celebrity Tiktoker Habeeb Hamzat, aka Peller, has revealed he was a carpenter before venturing into content creation.
The Tiktok sensation opened up about his life before fame in a recent episode of Rubbin Minds.
The content creator said his journey began when he was just 13 years old, learning a skill at a printing press.
He said he kept running away from work, fearing that he would end up like the “60-year-old vulcanizers” he usually saw.
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Peller said his parents eventually discovered his truancy and beat him, leading him to choose carpentry as a new skill to learn.
The Tiktok star said despite his initial reluctance, he put effort into learning carpentry. He said he was discouraged by his boss’s modest lifestyle, wondering when he could afford his car.
said it was during this time that he discovered TikTok and began creating content.
“Before TikTok, it was school and furniture. I initially started learning to work as a printer in a printing press when I was about 13 or 14 but I was always running away. This was because I would see 60-year-olds working as vulcanizers and I did not want my life to end up like that,” he said.
“Even the person that owned the printing press, rented the space. In my mind if my boss was still renting, how would I even grow? So, I kept running away to go and play football. When I got home at night, I would pretend like I went to work.
“Unknown to me, my mum had gone to my workplace in the afternoon and found out that I had not been there in three months. She already told my dad, who was then a vigilante and he took me to his place of work where they beat me mercilessly.
“They then asked me what skill I actually wanted to learn. To be honest I did not want to learn anything but the fear in my heart made me say carpentry. I also promised that I would not run away anymore, so I was taken to where I started learning carpentry.
“I was actually putting effort into it, but my boss was also driving a very small car, and, in my head, it made me feel like, if this was his car then which day would I be able to afford mine? It was while I was still learning carpentry that I ventured into TikTok.”
Peller also addressed rumours about earning N200 million on TikTok. He revealed that he makes at least $2000 to $3000 per stream and goes live on TikTok thrice a week.
“All the conversations about me making ₦200 million are not true. I didn’t go to TikTok to make money. I went there because I wanted to be doing tap-tap. Before, I wasn’t even interested in making money on TikTok,” he said.
“In this life, you have to have strategy. I noticed that when I asked for gifts, my views go down. But when I’m just talking,
I think my people love me. Even the people who say I’m not funny keep watching me when I’m just talking normally. Now, I just go on live stream and talk. I won’t even ask for gifts, but when I end the live, I can see like $2,000 or $3,000 for just 20 to 30 minutes.”
The host asked what Peller makes weekly on average on TikTok, and he responded that he earns between N15 million and N20 million.
