This is the most difficult time in a Boy childs life.
•• Oftenly hits someone who has completed his university education.
You are so full of enthusiasm to take over the job market given the education you have in mind…
•• Mostly individuals think its a walk in the park. Get out there, apply jobs and start earning …
My Men, Its NOT…
First things First , You get No interview invites within the first year. and if you are lucky to have one, its a training session and you will have to pay for it… since you do not have the money, you shrug and let that pass… Its a many chance world you say.
•• Several months fade away. No job. you managed to get shortlisted in imaginary interviews.
But you are a man. You go hard…
•• Years go buy and you are so desperate to become something in life, to become Someone rather than the dependent man you still are.
••All your friends Have landed in jobs already. Good jobs. Some have initiated you in conversations about how their last trip to California was. Or how they are working on business projects next month…
All you can think of is the next Meal you can have or even miss.
•• Its human Nature, You fail to put up with them. Their standards are high. Jealousy and lack of belonging creeps in you.
••• So slowly by slowly you decide to distant yourself, Your circle of friends becomes smaller. You want to have those friends who are more like you and understand your situation…
•• So after years of job hunting you finally decide to take on any Job even below your degree standards as long as it pays. Office help for example.
•• Your work is to clean and serve the staff with food. You get sent to deliver letters, appointments, Messages and the lot.
•• Somedays you run into your campus best friends. They have cars and they buy you lunch. You certainly wish that they can loan you cash to start something useful with yourself.
•• you take pictures with them, but of-course you look odd. No ammount of editing could clear out the knocked-off, Rock bottomed scenario looming on your face and body.
It is at this stage where you learn alot about life.
You learn about TRUE FRIENDSHP, HOW TO SAVE, PRAYER AND LOVE.
Do not rush into Relationships here.
** You should be careful and strong. Strong enough and say no to drug addiction.
Do not think of commiting Suicide because you might.
** Your blame game on the Almighty and Parents is so strong.
**Your religious believes are so wavy.
LET this stage teach you about appreciating the small things you have and acquire over the years…
If you cannot handle something, Let It Go.
Be very Humble …
I am 24 now and I have already started feeling the pinch. I just Hope I will use all the chances I have to live up to my Dreams.
This is why you should get as much experience/internships under your belt while at uni to secure a job once you graduate. Everyone that is applying has a degree classification.
How/where does one begin? How likely is it to get a job yenye ulisomea? Or should one gain experience kidogo in Kenya before going abroad?
A lot of the people who went to the US that I know have started trooping back. They’re very subdued too, some are people who got scholarships to Harvard! Sijui kama ni Trump.
That fuckin stage (The first three years after graduation) hit me so fuckin hard, I quit Facebook and all the social media…All my friends seemed to have gotten themselves into well-paying jobs except me!!!
I have been there. I guess I am now settling into the thing that people say how life blossoms out differently for us. For some they get outta campus and voila, a well paying job and they are comfy living the dream and posting it on IG. Well not me. I did not even complete my BA. So smooth life is a mirage. Anyway kuchapwa na life kumenifunza stuff mob.
Kuappreciate maisha tu
Kuavoid mabeste tasa
Kuwa patient.
And having a grounded personality. I shed off a lot of those silly standards we adopt in campo. Right now nikimeet me at 23yrs nitampiga kibare nimsho awache upus…
I don’t know man. A lot of them are so under the radar, and it normally feels awkward asking them. But there are those older ones doing well, I think he was employed by a multinational and transferred here. Hao wengine sidhani walirudi voluntarily.
