Lucy’s story of a humble beginning to great heights.

Lucy’s story begins in the city of Nairobi. After completing her accounting course, she went to live with her brother. One day when she went to the market, a man overheard her talking to the woman selling her the vegetables. She was talking about looking for a job. The man approached her and asked her if she was interested in working. She said she would as long as it was not as a domestic worker. She did not have a cell phone, the man agreed to meet her the following day in the morning in the town centre.

Lucy was exited about getting the job, she asked her brother to give her some money for bus fare the following day. Her brother being overprotective refused to give her and she borrowed from a neighbor. She woke up early and went to meet the stranger. She waited for him for four hours. When he finally came, he showed her the shop where he was to get her the job. It was closed. He told her to wait and once it was opened to give him a call. The owner of the shop agreed to give her the job to start in the New Year. It was November by then. After three days, the owner of the shop decided to call Lucy so that she could start work. She had given her brother’s cell phone number.

Lucy decided not to talk to the man because she thought that he was interested in her. After three days had passed and she was not reachable, the man went back to the market where he has first seen Lucy. He asked around where she resided and someone directed him to her brother’s house. He went and there was no one home. The following day early in the morning, he went back. Lucy opened the door and she could not believe that the man had come to see her before 6 am in the morning. She wanted to lock him out but he explained that she was needed at her place of work immediately.

The stranger wanted to help her, wanting nothing in return. She worked at the shop for a few years and made friends with the family of her employer. She got another job where she could practice her career as an accountant. The man she worked for was very obsessed on how the door of the shop was opened. She had to recite a prayer seven times on opening the door. The owner of the shop would take time off to go to a cave to pray for a week. She was a dedicated employee who did the best she could. The business was making a profit.

Her brother was working in a firm owned by some Asians and when there was a vacancy, he asked her to apply. She did and when she was interviewed, they offered her a salary twice what was to be given for that post. When she went to hand over her resignation letter, her former boss increased her salary by three times. She begged him to release her.

 Lucy moved to a medical insurance company where the environment allowed her to grow in her career, she met and fell in love with her husband and things were going well. Janet, who was her superior, started bullying her; she would get home upset. Her husband advised her to quit her job. When her husband was having lunch with a friend called Paul, he told her about his wife. They arranged for her to go for an interview in Paul’s office. He is a doctor. The amazing thing was that the office was in the same building as her former employer. She would meet with Janet in the lift. She would say hello and Janet would not respond.

The office that Lucy was working in was providing medical services to the medical insurance company where she resigned. On the material day, the secretary was not in, Lucy was asked to fill in for her. The mysteries of life cannot be explained. Janet came in sick. She saw Lucy seated at the front desk and asked her to help her see a doctor before the other patients in line. Lucy put her in her place and told her to wait like every one else or to go get the messenger from their office to come queue for her. She was too proud to wait she went for the messenger.  After the doctor attended her, she went to Lucy and apologized for every wrong that she had done to her.

She worked in Paul’s office for two years. In December, they had a team building tour with her colleagues. When they left from Nairobi going to Maasai Mara, she remembered that she had not sent a report that was mandatory every Friday. She requested her colleagues to allow her to make a stopover in Narok to use a cybercafé. She noticed that there was only one in the town. One had to have an ID to be allowed to surf the net. An idea grew root, she consulted with her husband on then relocating to Narok. He agreed. She took a month off work to set up the computer business. She advertised her business by offering free internet and people flocked there. She started teaching them computer packages.

Her business grew. She resigned from her job and relocated to Narok. She employed computer teachers to teach the large number of clients. She applied for a contract with the city council to service the municipal computers. She was doing so well, she bought a car. She diverged into wheat faming, proposal writing for the natives.

Talking to Lucy taught me a lesson. You can be a success no matter where you are, if you work hard and grab every chance that comes your way.