Meet The Gospel Singer Who Turned Down A ‘Better’ Banking Job Offer. Would you turn down a job offer (a better one) to follow your passion? For celebrated singer Alice Kamande, she tells True Love Magazine that growing up; she didn’t know whether she wanted to be a doctor, policewoman or a scientist. But she was sure of one thing. “I had always loved sciences. I was that girl who would do well in physics, so when it came to choosing a course, I picked electrical and electronic engineering,” she tells Judith Mwobobia. Contrary to what she does for a living, she says she never considered music as a career. “I always wanted to be a career woman. I never looked at music as a career,” she says this was something she would do for free. And just like most people, Alice had faced a problem when she graduated in 2006 from Kenya Polytechnic. She couldn’t find a job. “Life can be empty when you wake up and have nothing to look forward to….I spent the entire 2007 trying to get in to the workforce,” she says but unfortunately she couldn’t get a job. “I felt like giving up,” she tells the magazine. Luckily, her luck came through when she landed a contract job with a local bank. “I learned a lot. Being in the corporate environment was different,” she says adding that after 18 months in the job she realized she wasn’t cut for it. She says she felt dissatisfied and empty but couldn’t quit as she remembered how she had struggled to find the opportunity. She says she would put on earphones at work and listen to a song she had recorded earlier. One day she decided to give the earphones to a colleague for opinion on what he thought about her music. “He loved it and asked me what I was doing at a bank.” While her contract was almost up she says she made a decision not to sign another contract. “As chance would have it, just as the contacts were up for renewal, the bank’s HR department called me to offer me a better position, but my mind was made up,” she says. Out of a job, she tells True Love Magazine that she started concentrating fully on her music which took her a year before releasing her first song. But without money to finance a quality video, she reverted to side hustles such as making custom jewellery. Flash forward and she says she was ready for the fame that came with her music career. “ I would go to places and people would ask me if I am the Alice Kamande on TV. I felt my privacy was going away but I was just happy making God’s music. And my parents were now happy,” she says. Did her electrical engineering finally pay off? she quips, “When I call in an electrician to repair something, I can clearly see when he is trying to overcharge me because I know where the problem is and how much the replacement costs.” Courtesy: True Love.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:43:52 +0000
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