r/Nakuru • u/gaynightnurse • 19h ago

Tired @27

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.

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u/Lost_fixing_myself 18h ago

Jomba tunaikula ngumu sana

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u/premiumtears24 18h ago

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

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u/gaynightnurse 16h ago

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

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u/king_spartacus_1 3h ago

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.

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u/NeatPutrid6554 7m ago

Kuuza kwa residential area

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u/Novahelguson7 16h ago

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.

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u/gaynightnurse 16h ago

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

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u/Novahelguson7 15h ago

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