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Stepping into entrepreneurship as a shoe hawker

James Ndirangu, 25

I have been hawking shoes for a year now, having previously been employed to hawk a variety of items as a sales agent and learning the art of trade from that point.

I switched to self-employ for various reasons. One, commission paid daily depending on sales was at times demoralizing; two, it was not possible to make ends meet or have a financial breakthrough going by the state of affairs.

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