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When I started working, my parents were not in a position to support me. Most internships available were unpaid and I avoided those like plague because I couldn't afford it. I did this knowing very well that if I didn't get a job, I'd have to go back to Transnzoia.
I told people that I worked for, right from the onset, that money is a pain point for me. I told them... you have to cover my food and transport because I'm not staying hungry and I'm not transporting myself to work on my dime which is non existent.
We don't talk about poverty and how it impacts us enough. So kids whose idea of poverty is a small stipend come on here thinking life is that way for everyone. Well, it's not. Even in my situation where they paid the little, someone else had to chip in every now and then.
I do not understand where people get the audacity to blame their fellow countrymen for the faults of the government. I do not understand how you people don't understand that someone can go a day without 50 bob in their pocket. Mtu atafanya unpaid internship akilala kwa streets?
Coming from poverty, knowing very well that the poverty I grew up in was not the worst of it (mtoto wa walimu)... Ending up in a classed profession then seeing you people wilding the way you do on this platform... Makes me wonder if mshawahi toka Nairobi na matatu.
Poor kids have enough to worry about as is. One time in campo I was feeling thirsty but couldn't buy pineapple ya 20 bob because I needed it for fare. Wewe unataka kuongeza unpaid internship hapo? Mko tu sawa? 
Haiya!
Haiya!
At times I feel like telling stories about poverty is feeding into the "overcoming poverty makes you resilient" cult. I'd have preferred not to go through the things I went through. Please don't romanticize struggle. It doesn't make great people. It scars people.
African countries would be the richest if poverty was a character building exercise. I've met trust fund babies (actual ones with penthouses in some European city)... thanks to my very profession and yah know what? Give me that life Don't romanticize poverty please.
Don't romanticize poverty please.
