Woe unto him if he tries this!!!

@madhaquer has snookered himself. The relatives will be up in arms - "He does not want others to succede", "He thinks he is the only one who can do 'office' jobs", "He is threatened by the progress of others"... bla bla bla.

This can only work when the fellow is self driven. I know a graduate who use to work in a mjengo as he was hustling for a job. Another who was running a vegetable kiosk - wakes up very early in the morning, goes to the market, gets all the stuff back to his kiosk and goes job hunting. In the evening/late afternoon he goes back to run his kiosk. And many more. Today this fellows are very successful! The kiosk owner is trying to give Uhuru compe in land ownership!

But this fellows made the decisions by themselves. The former kiosk owner told me he had made a decision never to live with a relative even for a single day and settled on kiosk ownership in his fifth year [Electrical Engineering] and even did market research on the same. After his last paper he embarked on the kiosk biashara with vigour!

@Madhaquer,
A lot of answers have been given out of sheer ignorance (or by those whose "children" still reside in their testicles).Of course,a few have given sensible suggestions and one of them is that you shouldn't be residing with the boy even though this might be too late.Failing an exam does not mean one is a failure in life and the opposite is also true.

Back to what you wanted to know.Someone has suggested that you find a trades course for the young man.I say that is the way to go.There are self employed trades people who are making more money than many graduates here by many kilometres.To give you an example,sometimes last year,i was looking for a coded high pressure welder (Lloyds of London register).We only got one in Kenya and the fellow was so busy,his schedule was taking me a month ahead.I decided to get one from SA and i paid him 600K for 28 hours work.What do you need for that?.Besides this,there are other lucrative techs such as electrical wiring,refrigeration and plumbing.Let nobody discourage you from pursuing a blue collar job for the young man.Indeed,as already happened in Britain,since all Kenyans want the white collar jobs,the blue collar jobs are the place to be in and they will pay.Believe it!

The tragedy of our education system is that it is too exam oriented and attempts to make all of us academics oblivious to our individual talents and preferences, which is a pity really.

Perhaps the right place for you to begin would be to ask yourself, besides reading, what else did he participate in while in school- games? Any extra-curricular activities? Therein might be a clue as to what his talents and/or interests really are.

While at it by the way, what has he told you that he himself would like to do? If he's just recently finished his high school, give him a maximum of about 7 months post high school after which he should have decided what he wants to do; it took me about 6months after high school before deciding I ever wanted to see a book again.

Maybe as he goes about making up his mind, you might wanna consider some form of apprenticeship for him in a variety of fields. I see young men at my pal's garage doing that all the time, just to keep themselves busy.

C stand is the minimum.

@qooler, D-? kwani uliandika tu jina ALAFU ukapatiana makaratasi? GFF