30/04/2025
When you’re in campus, they make it sound so simple.
Graduate. Get a job. Start life.
That's the dream they sell you.
Then you graduate...
And life smacks you straight in the chest.
No job offers.
No interviews.
No emails.
Just you, your degree, and a sinking feeling that maybe, just maybe, you were lied to.
I remember waking up every morning after graduation feeling like I had somewhere important to go.
But there was nowhere.
Just me, in the house, refreshing LinkedIn like a madman.
Sending CVs. Re-editing cover letters.
Getting ghosted by companies I didn’t even like.
Nobody prepares you for that feeling.
That quiet shame when your relatives ask,
“Ulipata kazi?”
And you have to fake a smile and say,
"Soon."
Graduating doesn’t guarantee anything.
The truth is — you can be educated and broke.
You can have papers and problems.
You can be qualified and irrelevant.
Nobody cares about your degree if you can't solve real problems.
The market doesn’t pay for education.
The market pays for ex*****on.
It took me months of struggle, confusion, and honestly — depression — to realize:
I had to stop waiting to be chosen.
I had to Skill Up.
Or I was going to Stay Stuck.
