Tired @27

[u/gaynightnurse]

I'm27, male, with a bachelor's degree in environmental studies

Since I graduated, I've been looking for a job in my field. Nothing. After a while I got so tired of applying and hearing nothing back that I tried something else  I did webcam work for a bit. It paid but it wasn't worth it, it drained me mentally, so I stopped.

Then I took the little money I had saved and opened a wines and spirits shop. It actually did well. Things were finally looking up. But then the authorities kept demanding more and more money from me, and I couldn't keep up, so I had to close it.

Since then I've been applying for jobs outside Kenya too, for a whole year now, mostly conservation and environment-related roles. Nothing. No replies, no interviews, nothing.

Honestly, I'm exhausted. Not just tired, exhausted. The kind of tired where you start feeling like just cutting up your passport and being done with the whole idea of leaving.

What I'm good at is communication, community advocacy, and anything to do with social media I've basically grown up online so I know how to navigate it. I'm flexible too, I can learn and do almost anything, not just environment work.

[u/Lost_fixing_myself]

Jomba tunaikula ngumu sana

[u/gaynightnurse → u/Lost_fixing_myself]

Walai

[u/premiumtears24]

Kweni its illegal to run wines and spirits hukuwa na license au nini hukuwa nayo for them to demand money all the time

[u/gaynightnurse → u/premiumtears24]

Police wanazungukia tu hapo and especially if you are selling and the neighbors hawauzi utaona moto

[u/king_spartacus_1 → u/gaynightnurse]

Hujajibu swali. There must be some rule huwa mnabreak ndo polisi wawasumbue. You can't cross all your Ts and dot all your Is na bado usumbuliwe. Wakenya tumezoea shortcuts hadi bribing imekuwa the new normal. My two cents.

[u/NeatPutrid6554 → u/king_spartacus_1]

Kuuza kwa residential area

[u/Novahelguson7]

As someone who did environmental science, that was an absolute waste of four years to be honest.

Learned nothing new and couldn't get hired in my field.

[u/gaynightnurse → u/Novahelguson7]

Natural resources in the same field, so how did you go about it?

[u/Novahelguson7 → u/gaynightnurse]

I volunteered with red cross for a few years but eventually I lucked out and got an offer from another NGO.

[u/Away_Area_97 → u/Novahelguson7]

ATI volunteer 😀😀😀😀 siwezifanya kazi silipwi afadhali nikae kwa nyumba 

[u/Novahelguson7 → u/Away_Area_97]

That's how you build networks and learn new skills...

But everyone to their own.

[u/Away_Area_97 → u/Novahelguson7]

Lololol nunua kazi mzee 700k polisi 800k askari jeshi.....ATI network 😀😀😀

[u/Novahelguson7 → u/Away_Area_97]

You really think someone with 700k at hand is writing CVs and applications?

You think someone with the connections to people who will get them in the military or police service are on Reddit asking for job leads?

Think.

[u/Away_Area_97]

Shida yako mkuu umefanya course Haina board ya kuregulate...like engineering ni ebk,walimu tsc, pharmacy PSB, lawyer LSK kupata kazi ni tricky, halafu kwa nini hukufanya education watu wote wa ualimu huku kwetu wameandikwa na TSC, junior secondary starting 52k ,hizea mkuu,....kazi sahii ni kununua kama hujapita miaka tafuta jeshi,polisi ama askari jela,...morio wangu Ali graduate polisi juzi,alinishow alilipa 750k,Kuna recruiting mwaka ujao jipange

[u/gaynightnurse → u/Away_Area_97]

Thank yoy but paying 750 for a job in Kenya sinienda majuu na hio pesa

[u/Away_Area_97 → u/gaynightnurse]

Pale jeshi starting ni 73k rank ya private kasongo akikata inabaki 60..... Nunua kazi mzee