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How I boosted my earnings from Sh100 a-day to over Sh60,000 monthly

After I finished high school in 2003, I was unable to continue with my studies because of a lack of money.

I got a job working as a casual at construction sites. It was eight hours of back-breaking work for Sh100 a day. I later discovered this wasn’t the standard rate paid from one site to another; builders were exploiting the naivety of unskilled youth for cheap labour.

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