From Medicine to Web3

I recently sat down with my younger brother, a doctor who made the leap into the world of Web3. This is not just another crypto success story it is a real, from-the-ground-up account of what it looks like to leave clinical practice and build a new path in tech.

Here is how our conversation went.

“I didn’t even know it was Web3.”

“To be honest, I didn’t start because I knew what Web3 was. I just needed to make some money while I was still in school. I stumbled on a job post on Twitter a guy needed moderators for a crypto project. I didn’t even know what a moderator was at the time.”

He reached out anyway.

“I just DM’ed him and said I could do the job. He asked if I had experience. I said yes. I was lying of course. I had zero experience. But he said, ‘Cool, you’re in.’ That was it. Easiest interview of my life.”

“That first job paid me $700 a month.”

“The guy that hired us was Nigerian. He brought in about 50 of us and said, ‘The project pays $1,000, but I will give you $700 and keep $300 as my share.’ I did not argue. I needed the money.”

“He paid us in naira. My first pay was about ₦420,000. That was a lot of money at the time. All I had to do was keep the community active greet people, post updates, keep things moving.”

“Then came the invite contests.”

“A few days into the job, the project launched a referral contest invite people into the community and win $50 daily. I started winning every single day.”

“I was so serious about it that I bought a second phone, made a second account, and started earning twice. I even bought a used Android phone from a friend to stay active.”

“The money was coming straight into my wallet in dollars. No middleman. It was the first time I ever got paid like that. It was addictive.”

“Then I made the biggest mistake.”

“The project started selling NFTs for $800 each. I bought two. $1,600 gone. I thought I was investing like buying land. But a few weeks later, the whole thing vanished. No responses in the group chat. The founders disappeared.”

“That was my first real lesson: don’t let hype cloud your judgment. I lost everything I had made up to that point. But that pain taught me what Web3 is about.”

“So, we created a DAO.”

“A few of my friends from medical school and I started a small community. We onboarded other medics into Web3 showing them how to open wallets, claim airdrops, stuff like that.”

“We did it for free at first. These were our classmates. Instead of repeating ourselves, we just created step-by-step guides. That was how we began teaching.”

“Then I started levelling up.”

“Eventually, I moved from moderator to community manager. As a moderator, your job is just to keep the group tidy welcome new members, stop spam, etc.”

“But community management was more advanced. You manage the whole Discord or Telegram. Post announcements. Organise the team. Plan events. Even coordinate with the project founders sometimes.”

“It came with more responsibility and more pay.”

So far, what has stood out to me was how real and humble his journey was.
He did not have a roadmap. He did not have tech skills. He just followed curiosity, chased opportunities, made mistakes, and learned by doing.

After community management, the game changed."

“As a community manager, my job was to keep the community alive, post updates, collaborate with the project founders, and manage moderators. But after a while, I realized that was just stage one.”

“When the market slowed down, many projects stopped hiring community managers. They wanted people who could bring results specifically, people who could bring people in. That is where the ‘collab manager’ came in.”

"To get jobs, I started doing the work before I got hired."

“At the beginning, I would find brand-new projects on Twitter the ones that had not figured everything out yet.”

“I would go into their communities and start doing the work for free: welcoming users, helping with posts, even suggesting ideas. I did the job before applying. That way, they already saw my value before I asked for anything.”

“I never led with 'I'm Nigerian,' by the way. There’s a lot of bias, especially in Web3. People have preconceived ideas. So, I just let my work speak first. Once you prove yourself, your passport does not matter.”

"I worked for over 50 projects."

“At my peak, I was working for nine different projects at once. Most paid around $50 per week, which does not sound like a lot, but when you stack them up, it adds up.”

“Some months I made as little as $100 total. Other times, I made over $2,000 a month. Nothing was stable — but I always had something going.”

"Then came collab management and alpha hunting."

“Collab managers are like marketers we connect projects with top communities. You are responsible for getting attention, getting whitelist spots into hands of top holders, and creating hype. You find the whales.”

“Then there are Alpha Hunters. These are the people in exclusive communities who find promising projects early. Their job is to know what is hot before it becomes hot. They work closely with collab managers to distribute whitelist spots to serious buyers.”

"Web3 is not about luck it is about pattern recognition."

“People think it is hard to spot a bad project, but it is not. When you are in the space long enough, you see the signs: poor branding, empty promises, inactive communities. You can smell it.”

“If you do your due diligence and know what to look for, you will avoid 90% of the scams.”

"I built my own value through networks."

“At a point, I was juggling multiple roles collab manager, alpha hunter, and community lead. And I was always using my connections. I would tell new clients, ‘Look, I already work with five active communities. I can get your project visibility.’”

“That worked. And as results came in, my reputation grew. Some founders would be shocked like, ‘Yo, who are you again?’ And that is how I got more jobs.”

"I lost money too a lot of it."

“I made thousands, but I lost thousands too. I once lost $2,600 on a meme coin. It hurt. Some of my friends would casually say, ‘Bro, I made $10K this week,’ and I am just there, holding the bag, down bad.”

“But that is Web3. You win, you lose. You learn.”

"My first car? I bought it from an NFT trade."

“One of the biggest wins I ever had was minting and flipping an NFT for about $4,500. That paid for my first car.”

“At the time, it felt surreal. I had gone from moderating Telegram chats to making life-changing money. And that is just one win out of many small ones that stacked up.”

"Eventually, I became an OG."

“I have used hundreds of dApps (decentralized apps), mostly on Solana. I was not even farming airdrops at first I was just using the tools daily. Then one by one, they started rewarding people like me who were early adopters.”

“Some airdrops paid $1,000, $2,000 just for being consistent. I got them without even trying to game the system. That is why I say: Web3 rewards those who stay in the game.”

"How did I balance this with medical school? Same way people balance TikTok and school."

“Honestly, people do not realize how much time they already spend online. I just used that time to be productive. Between classes, I was on Twitter, on Discord, on calls with project teams.”

“I even started applying some of what I learned in medicine like building rapport with users or breaking things down like a consultation. It all connects, if you think about it.”

"Do I regret not practicing medicine? Not really."

“Medicine will always be a part of me. But Web3 gave me the chance to see beyond it.”

“The richest people in healthcare? They are business minded. So I see Web3 as another way to create value — maybe even more value.”

"Is Web3 a business for me? Not exactly."

“I do not just see Web3 as a hustle or a job. I believe it is the future like how people once dismissed the internet. Web3 is the next evolution. The earlier you adopt it, the better.”

So, what does he make now?

“On average, even in bad months, I make around $3,000 from Web3. Some months are dry. Some are crazy. But overall, it sustains me.”

Final Thoughts

I’m going to stop here because, honestly, this is already one of the longest blog posts I have ever published.

My brother and I spoke for almost three hours, and there was so much we touched on. Some parts are a bit too personal to share online, and others to be honest are worth charging for. Not everything has to be free. Sometimes, value deserves to be rewarded.

That is why we are now seriously considering two things:

• Creating a book series that goes deeper into everything we talked about the career transition, the mindset shifts, the strategies, and the income streams.

• Launching a weekly YouTube series, where we will break down practical ways for healthcare professionals to move into tech, crypto, and Web3 using our personal stories as blueprints.

For example, my brother just got back from a two-week holiday in the Maldives, where he linked up with Web3 colleagues from the US and other parts of the world. His next stop? Abu Dhabi. These are the kinds of things we want to talk about more not to flex, but to show you what is possible when you pivot with purpose. We will be diving into that on our upcoming YouTube channel.

So, if you are a clinician who is feeling stuck, tired of the system, or just curious about what else is out there. I hope this post shows you that there are options. You can do more. And you can build a life that fits you better.

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