Thursday, 9 June 2016

Curiosity into profit




"Take passion off the table and just follow your curiosity. Trust it, take it wherever it wants to go. Believe in it and know that wherever it leads you, it's going to make for a more interesting life" -Elizabeth Gilbert on the Good Life Project Podcast. 


That is what young programmer Jimmy did. Losing  his parents at a tender age he was raised by his grandmother. It was tough, he missed  the first term of school both at form one and  form three. Fortunately, he got a scholarship into Karen Academy. At Karen academy he realized that if he did what his peers were doing at the time, then he would not catch up with his studies so he studied extra hours and stayed in school on most holidays He got his first business idea in high school. He would buy clothes at a lower price in clothes markets and sell to his peers at a profit. He would also sold phones and used the profits for his upkeep in school.

After school he developed an interest in computers.Out of curiosity, he started developing computer viruses and video games for phones at the age of 18 . In 2012 he turned his hobby into a business. In 2013 he was offered a job by a leading Tech company and declined.Instead, he registered his business and got corporate clients like Co-Operative Bank.His company, Secure Security Ltd currently offers services such as information security, penetration testing and corporate training to his clients. In 2014, he entered into a partnership with The United States International University training the students on ethical hacking, website building, app development, phone game building and programming.

His say;
Start with what you have in mind, work on it with the smallest resources you have and go out of your way.
Young people dream a lot but hardly work on their dreams, they hardly sacrifice, don't wait around to get lucky, make lucky.
There are many free resources on the internet that you can use to turn your dreams into reality.
Research and understand the market, what problems are you solving? and pitch your ideas to the right people the right way.
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.


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