Never Give Up: Unemployed Graduate Succeeds, Builds His own Company after His Family Deserted Him
- After years of unemployment and countless unfulfilled promises from uncles, Silas Ouma took the bull by the horns and created his own company
- Before the bold step, Ouma had applied time and again without success after graduating with a degree in Biomedical Technology from Egerton University
- Ouma's life took a turn for the better months after he started his relocation company; he is currently an esteemed employer of about 15 youths
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A young man named Silas Ouma has narrated how he started his company, Topmark Movers.
The Nairobi-based moving company provides labour to physically move household goods for clients from one location to another.
Ouma disclosed that after he got his degree in biomedical technology, he tried hard to get a formal employment job but no firm offered him that.
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Starting Topmark Movers
A trusted Kenyan news website, TUKO.co.ke reports that Ouma revealed that he was forced to become his own boss after failing to get his dream job.
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Before he launched the moving company, he was working as a trade market support with a cigarette manufacturing company in Kitale.
He had quit the job because it was infrequent and unpredictable.
"I quit the job because it was unreliable, and I mediately started job hunting. I applied for many jobs but I wasn't lucky," he said.
Ouma developed the idea of starting a moving company after a conversation with a friend who offers home cleaning services and he never looked back.
Uncles who promised jobs became distant
He recounted how his uncles who had promised him good jobs while he was still in school, vanished at the time of need.
"They had promised me good jobs when I was still in school but after that, they stopped checking up on me or picking my call," Ouma added.
Graduate who struggled to land job starts own flourishing business
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a man has taken to social media to share how he became an entrepreneur. Boet Joy Khulie shared his inspiring story on the #ImStaying Facebook page on Saturday.
He revealed he struggled to get a job for two years after graduating from varsity.
The sad reality is that many suffer the same fate but Khulie decided not to sit and wait for an opportunity to land in his lap. Instead he founded his own company and it has been going ever since.
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