This morning I read a post and while replying to @747Captain insinuation that Mogoka lowers ones Social ‘class’ see https://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php?threads/drugs-and-success.106078/ I realized that wueh!! That was a rant.
Why is it that formally employed pple esp bankers, medics,civil servants always think that traders are not ‘it’.
Boss, we’ve been there, done that.While in employment (banking) I always found it absurd back then that a trader with a potential enterprise plus a Million worth of investment had LESS leverage in a borrowing platform than a civil servant with a net pay of 20K.(things have changed since then).But it was annoying and frustrating to decline a facility to a business guy who has more potential and approving the same for GOK employee, whose potential is just a Gov payslip.
I swore to leave and get into business.I did.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was an incident I worked for a mhindi.When I wrote a proposal for a project and he approved, we didn’t have support staff for the technology end.So he was recruiting.I gave heads up to a former colleague (we had worked on a similar project).He applied and came tops, was recruited.
What this mhindi didn’t know is that we knew each other from before (I asked him not to mention the project that we had worked on together before, and he also didn’t include it in his CV). We got shocked when the mhindi called me to his office and asked me to spy on my colleague and be reporting his every move.I told my friend what’s happening and we decided to play it cool. Shock on us, the next day he was also asked to spy on me and report daily, akakuja akaniambia.(I was technically his boss, so that mhindis action also shocked me).Huh! So we were to spy on each other and report daily.
We lost faith in that guy, and decided to sabotage the project.My guy looked for a job and quit, a week later as he was looking for a replacement (I was just waiting for my pay), nikamrushia laptop na nikaenda.With all the backups and passwords and crucial data.It was Ok to serve the fucker a cold one.
(That SOB was as cold as F.
I remember one time we are at Hilton for DisCorp, an intl fest for movie n media pple, he admonished us thoroughly for taking an extra 10 mins during tea break but Maaaannnnn, how could we not savour all those snack servings banae hahahah!)
My satisfaction is drawn from the independence I have while running my biz.
From laying down my rules to making decisions, to opening hours.
I get to decide whom to hire and fire(and bang), which supplier to work with, whom to bank with.Period!
The only rules I abide with ni za serikali.sii za mtu yeyote! We may not be at par with formally employed pple when asking for loans but boss, of late we had known how to circumvent that.
What draws your satisfaction? Being under Employment? (Assured salary, colonization n discrimination, risk of being fired etc) OR self-employment (No assured salary, independence, being BOSS)???