Silas Ouma: Jobless Graduate Starts Own Company After Uncles Who Promised Him Jobs Disappeared

• After years of unemployment and countless unfulfilled promises from uncles, Silas Ouma took the bull by the horns and created his own company
• Before the bold step, Ouma had applied time and again without success after graduating with a degree in Biomedical Technology from Egerton University
• Ouma's life took a turn for the better months after he started his relocation company; he is currently an esteemed employer of about 15 youths

A young man named Silas Ouma has narrated how he started his company, Topmark Movers.

The Nairobi-based moving company provides labour to physically move household goods for clients from one location to another.

Ouma disclosed that after he got his degree in biomedical technology, he tried hard to get a formal employment job but no firm offered him that.

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Starting Topmark Movers

Speaking exclusively to YEN.com.gh, Ouma revealed that he was forced to become his own boss after failing to get his dream job.

Before he launched the moving company, he was working as a trade market support with a cigarette manufacturing company in Kitale.

He had quit the job because it was infrequent and unpredictable.

"I quit the job because it was unreliable, and I mediately started job hunting. I applied for many jobs but I wasn't lucky," he said.

Ouma developed the idea of starting a moving company after a conversation with a friend who offers home cleaning services and he never looked back.

Uncles who promised jobs became distant

He recounted how his uncles who had promised him good jobs while he was still in school, vanished at the time of need.

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"They had promised me good jobs when I was still in school but after that, they stopped checking up on me or picking my call," Ouma added.

Woman starts own company after rejection

In a separate article, a determined Ghanaian man recently shared his journey to owning two successful businesses after being sacked from work.

Prince Acheampong took to his LinkedIn timeline to recount that in 2020, he lost his job as an international customer specialist for a multinational company during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Acheampong, he was home for months with no source of income.

"I prayed a solemn prayer to God to come to my aid and show me the way"

Source: YEN.com.gh