The Young Lawyer

Prospects of being a lawyer is having a big car, big house, sizeable spouse and healthy kids who attend those schools.
But before then, a lawyer is sufferer.
After reading law for five years, one is expected to go for pupilage.
This pupilage stage is where most students wished they could have done "lighter courses"
At the ODPP there's no pay, you just work hoping they'll absorb you later.
At the AGs a lawyer is paid 10k, then you're posted anywhere in the country. How you transport yourself and your stuff there is your own typhoid.
The biggest taker of pupils are law firms.
Good law firms in Nairobi pay between 20 - 30k. Houses in Nairobi may consume half of that, u have to walk long distances at lunch hour to look for pocket friendly vibandas. Then you have to wake up before the birds to pay fair fare or you just pretend you want to avoid jam. Law firms in Nairobi that pay 10k and below should be evacuated because they are spoiling the name of the capital city.
In up country, some law firms are courageous enough to pay 5k to a degree holder. That 5k is not paid at once, some months you can even go without it.
Surely how do these law firms expect people to live?
You meet a class mate who all over sudden looks twice their age. With suits that passed retirement age two years ago. Shoes are not totally worn out because lawyers are thin and light. Suits have changed colors thrice from the original color.
The firms expect you to smile as you welcome clients. How can someone who ate nothing smile,? They keep thinking how much they owe the owner of madondo hotel, many wishing they were tunoi.
Some students have eaten greens so much so that they spit green saliva.
Some have entered MoU with kibanda proprietor so that they can eat and pay later whenever they use their wits in the firms to get money through other unorthodox means.
Mama mboga has her book where she records her debtors. The column of a lawyer she writes: wakili wa suti brown. Because there are several other lawyers in her book.
People from village keep sending you harambee cards for various projects. Some have so much faith in you that the make you guest of honor: Hon. Mwesimiwa wakili Ochi Baba- Guest of Honor.
Some concerned Aunties also tempt you with suitable spouses, wondering what you're waiting for while your agemates have beaten homes with two wives.
But lawyers are resilent, I haven't any who has committed suicide despite the untold sufferings.
Keep up friends, tough times won't last forever!!

Definitely a young lawyer.

@Maka is lucky, He works for Cliff Ombeta and he gets a crying allowance depending with how many times he shed tears on TV for a client.

Such are the woes of all Kenyan graduates who have done the so called prestigious courses.ie law, engineering, Medicine etc You slave for 5yrs to get enslaved on the basis of gaining experience.

People are better off taking biz courses, they end up managing those who took prestigious courses,

An entry position for an accounts assistant is 80K!(Not the wahindi and okuyo run family establishments)

Slavery?

What you talking about?

Interns at a government hospital earn 95k net. After internship for 1 year, their pay goes up to 110k net.

Depends on your luck .There is no career that guarantees success.
There will be poor and rich lawyers, accountants, engineers, teachers,drivers . A driver at the UN probably earns more than some bankers.

The number of companies that pay 80k for an accounts assistant are very few.

Generally, most companies start their beginners at around 15k - 30k.

This kid would go to Karumaindo like me
I'd say 300 bob, he'd 3000