I was offered $95K. I asked for $110K. They came back with $105K.I accepted. The 30 seconds of discomfort asking for more earned me an extra $10K/year. This is where context matters; that's $50K over 5 years. For 30 seconds of awkwardness.
Always negotiate. Always.
@VictorNyakund10 I saw this post and tbh, it feels like he is clout fishing! Such a PhD even before you finish, you are such an asset both locally and globally. 😎
A mentor told me a long time ago, you’ve got two choices;
1) You can either get really good at balancing a checkbook or
2) Make enough money you don’t have to.
@Kimuzi_@SangKip4 Reading this thread reminds me of a scripture that says :
“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”
Ecclesiastes 9:4 .KJV
You have to keep pushing as long as there is breath in your lungs! There is HOPE 🫶🏾
TIME IS NOT TREATED THE SAME EVERYWHERE:
1. Germany: Being late is disrespectful. Meetings start to the second. Punctuality here is not a habit. It is a moral standard.
2. Brazil: An invitation for seven means nine. Relationships matter more than schedules. Rigidity kills the atmosphere.
3. Japan: Trains run to the minute. A sixty second delay comes with a formal public apology. Time is a system. The system is everything.
4. India: Events begin when people arrive. The gathering defines the time. Presence matters more than precision.
5. Polynesian cultures: Time was tied to stars, seasons, and the ocean. Circular, not linear. The clock came later and from somewhere else.
6. United States: Time is money. Literally. Every hour is billable. Every minute is scheduled. Rest has to earn its place.
7. Spain: Lunch at three. Dinner at ten. The day bends around the person. Not the other way around.
8. Ethiopia: A different calendar entirely. Thirteen months. New Year in September. A different year than the rest of the world. Time here is a cultural choice, not a global agreement.
9. France: August belongs to rest. Emails go unanswered. Shops close. Nobody apologizes for this. Leisure is a right, not a reward.
10. Kenya: The clock starts at sunrise. Six in the morning is hour zero. Noon is hour six. Time is built around light, not an arbitrary number on a wall.
11. China: One time zone for the entire country. A landmass that should span five. In the far west the sun rises at ten in the morning. Unity was chosen over accuracy.
12.Australia: Aboriginal communities have always read time through seasons, animal movements, and the stars above. For over sixty thousand years the land itself served as the calendar. No clock was ever needed. Nature told them everything.
13. Mexico: Mañana means not right now. Urgency is often self-imposed. The present moment has its own demands and they are considered legitimate.
14. Greece: A guest arrives at any hour. You welcome them fully. The clock adjusts to the person. The person never adjusts to the clock.
15. Scandinavia: Months of darkness then months of endless light. The body follows seasons, not schedules. This is ancient. Science is only now catching up.
16. Nigeria: Start times are a suggestion. What matters is that everyone arrives, connects, and the evening becomes what it was meant to be. The experience always outranks the schedule.
17. Indonesia: Jam karet. Rubber time. Time stretches around mood, traffic, and social obligation. Rigidity is considered uncomfortable, not professional.
18. Russia: Eleven time zones. Vast winters. Long silences. Time here is treated with patience that outsiders often mistake for slowness.
19. Egypt: One of the first civilizations to invent a calendar. Yet modern Egyptian social time is deeply flexible. Hospitality always comes before the clock.
20. Congo: Community shapes the day more than any schedule. Time belongs to the people in the room, not the hands on the clock.
21. Philippines: Filipino time is a known and accepted reality. Six in the evening means seven or eight. Arriving before the host is ready is the real social mistake.
22. Vietnam: Built on endurance and long horizons. Planning here thinks in years and generations. Short deadlines feel foreign to a culture that measured time in struggles spanning decades.
23. Tanzania: Pole pole. Slowly slowly. A phrase that governs daily life. Rushing is not a virtue here. Moving with intention is.
24. Argentina: Dinner at ten. Parties at midnight. The night is its own world. Compressing it into earlier hours would make it something lesser.
25. Turkey: A meeting can become a meal can become a long evening. Nobody considers this a deviation. It is simply what time is for.
26. Iran: Its own solar calendar. New Year on the spring equinox. Time tied to nature, poetry, and a civilization so old that modern urgency feels like a passing trend.
As a young investor, the real game is not chasing percentage returns,it’s scaling the base.A 100% return on a small portfolio is still small money. What actually moves your financial position is capital size, not excitement over yield.For perspective:
KSh 100,000 at 80% gain will give KSh 80K profit
Sounds impressive, but it doesn’t materially change your life trajectory.
Now compare that to:
KSh 5M at just 12% = KSh 600,000 annually (~KSh50K monthly)
That’s where investing starts behaving like income, not “side gains.”
The discipline most GenZ miss is this:returns are a function of capital https://t.co/VjLvL2mJw9 instead of obsessing over squeezing an extra 2–5% on a small base, the focus should be:
1.Increasing investable income
2.Consistent capital injections
3.Reinvesting gains
Expanding exposure over time
Even a “boring” 1,000 monthly return on 100K is not the problem the problem is staying at 100K and expecting meaningful wealth creation.
Wealth is built in layers: earn → deploy → compound → scale capital → repeat
Until capital size grows, percentage wins are just noise.Scale up capital or continue complaining how 10% is nothing on 100K return!
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2. Fill in your details together with those of the Respondent.
3. Clearly narrate your case and state the relief sought, e.g., a refund of Ksh 100,000 plus interest and costs.
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If you can't do all these,hire a lawyer.
Simple( in Atwoli's voice)
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