Hello people, I'm new here and I must say I am totally impressed with your input on the forums. I am learning new things which is always a plus, no matter how small they may be. I am formerly employed but I know this is a temporary feat for me. I want to capitalise on it to find other streams of income.

I have seen some wonderful ideas, especially for the kenyan market. As an artist though, I choose to grow my current hobby into a proper start-up. Understandably, a Kenyan's primary concern is to feed his/her family. What a lot of people focus on though is only that. Money/profit. They do not realise that it requires lots of patience, passion, sacrifice and commitment to get something truly up and running.

I am appreciative of posts Ali's, a few yrs back, my apologies for not referencing it here, but he gave a few ideas on how this other member, who was retrenched and only had 15k left, how to make money buying canters of cabbages or sukuma and re-selling in kawangware. It made me realise there r alot of ways to make money in Nairobi. Only, alot of us may feel it might be too hard, or beneath them.

Once again, I'm simply glad i found this site. I see seeds of success strewn everywhere in these forums. Let's keep going and keep supporting each other's hopes, dreams, goals and plans.

Take good care!
Soul.

.....are you that new?

@SoulAddict inspiring intro, welcome - the artist in you comes thru...
Some words to inspire you from Peter Drucker on when you will be the artist you dream to be...

Where Do I Belong?
A small number of people know very early where they belong. Mathematicians, musicians, and cooks, for instance, are usually mathematicians, musicians, and cooks by the time they are four or five years old. Physicians usually decide on their careers in their teens, if not earlier. But most people, especially highly gifted people, do not really know where they belong until they are well past their mid-twenties. By that time, however, they should know the answers to the three questions: What are my strengths? How do I perform? and, What are my values? And then they can and should decide where they belong.

Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an
outstanding performer.


The Second Half of your Life
There is one prerequisite for managing the second half of your life: You must begin long before you enter it. There are three ways to develop a second career:
1) The first is actually to start one. We will see many more second careers undertaken by people who have achieved modest success in their first jobs. Such people have substantial skills, and they know how to work. They need challenge.

2) The second way to prepare for the second half of your life is to develop a parallel career. Many people who are very successful in their first careers stay in the work they have been doing, either on a full-time or part-time or consulting basis. But in addition, they create a parallel job, that takes another ten hours of work a week.

3) Finally, there are the social entrepreneurs.

@ muganda are social entrepreneurs the same as lifestyle entrepreneurs?
lifestyle entrepreneurs go into business not solely for money but primarily to facilitate or enhance their lifestyles.

For example if you love travelling and hate an office desk job you could venture into a business that allows you to visit all kinds of places and maybe make money by sending your reviews of hotels/resorts to travel magazines or even authoring a travel magazine yourself!

@nostoppingthis because of lots of fake kicks sold in the city, the paint, no matter how good the quality, sometimes does not fasten properly to the shoe...

The reception was that of fascination more than sales provoking :) But it taught me a lot. Going thru new experiences is always a wonderful teacher. Anyway, I've decided to focus on the more traditional forms of art, but on new mediums... let's see how that goes