Despite not performing well in school, Daniel Mwangi was determined to lead a good life and as such he started working as a house boy.
Mwangi who scored D- in his KCSE exams worked as a houseboy for three months after which his employer asked him to run her shop.
He worked as a shopkeeper for a while before he quit to pursue other interests having gained experience from the shop-keeping job.
Mwangi later ended up buying the shop where he was employed and since then, he has been setting up one business after the other.
Here is his story as told by WoK.
Daniel Mwangi worked as a house boy after not performing well in hisKenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams.
He scored a D- and he had to look for employment immediately after high school as he stood no chance of joining any university.
Mwangi stumbled upon the opportunity to work as a house boy while attending a funeral at their neighborhood.
He happened to hear a guest who had come from Nairobi inquiring about getting a house boy from the village.
He was fortunate to get himself the job and with two sets of clothes, he left the village with hopes of making it in life.
In Nairobi, Mwangi worked as a house boy for three months before he was offered a job as a shop keeper with a Ksh 4,000 monthly pay.
“At the house, I would do cleaning, washing clothes, cooking and tiding up the compound. Just the normal chores,” Mwangi said in an interview with Tuko.
He worked as a shopkeeper for two years before quitting the job and moved to Mlolongo where he rented a house with his savings.
“I had worked as a shop kepper to the point that I was feeling exhausted and by the time I left, I was feeling like I couldn’t continue anymore,” Mwangi explained his decision to quit the job.
With no source of income, life became unbearable for him but he was later introduced to a mechanic who offered to train him.
Mwangi was able to get clients and saved Ksh 20,000 which he used to buy an old motorcycle from a friend who was selling his.
However, the motorcycle was not making enough money to sustain himself, forcing him to start selling boiled eggs to supplement motorcycle earnings.
In 2015, his former employer spotted him selling boiled eggs and offered to sell him the shop where he previously worked as a shop attendant.
“I paid the cost of stock that was left in the shop and took over the shop. I managed to raise Ksh 20,000 for additional stock after which I approached a wholesaler who advised me to budget the capital on the most important goods,” he said.
Within two months, Mwangi had managed to restock the shop and it was open foe business by the end of 2015.
By 2018, Mwangi had expanded his shop to become a minimart, he was running a butchery, opened a saloon for his wife and had an M-PESA shop.
