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Baptism by fire: Letter to fresh graduands

We live in a world where potential employers only want people with 30 years of experience

Egerton University students graduated a couple weeks ago. In their thousands. Men and women wore that fancy hat we all wish to wear someday and collected the efforts of their four-five-six years in campus.

All those memories came flooding down their minds at the end of that ceremony when it hit them that they were no longer campus students and, most importantly, that they were now adults faced with the uphill task of figuring out how to start paying taxes.

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