From Strathmore, UON, KSL to Harvard. Meet 29 Yrs Old Whose First Job Was To Sell Juice

Roseline Njogu seems like a woman who has it all figured out. Her CV tells it all. She went to Alliance Girl’s High School where she scored all A’s in her KCSE, she proceeded to Strathmore for her CPA’s, then university of Nairobi for an LLB degree, then Kenya School of Law for her advocates training programme and finally Harvard Law School for a LLM degree.

And it seems she isn’t done, “I am planning to start my PHD later this year,” she tells True Love Magazine.

The 29 years old is a lecturer and faculty head of Academic Standards at Riara Law School who says what she loves most about her job is power.

“Seriously, I relish the responsibility I have over young people’s live and opportunity.” This she says helps her shape them into great successes or watch them spiral into destructive paths. “It’s invigorating and paralyzing at the same time,” she adds.

The mother of one who says if she wasn’t a lawyer she would be otherwise writing mystery novels for children and teenagers confesses what her  first job was when she was just 18, “My first job was promoting juice outside a convenience store. I could sell juice to anyone!” she says.

But did she always to be a lecturer? “I was going to be a corporate lawyer but the deals didn’t excite me,” she says she was drawn to more primal issues such as why is Africa poor….. “Why doesn’t the rapid transport in Nairobi work? …” she explains that the most important thing for her was try to figure out what she could do about it.

“My ‘aha’ moment was when I realized that I could do all the things I wanted to do from a seat in an academy. So I joined academia and started teaching at Kenyatta University School of Law,” she tells the magazine.

With a 10 year plan of becoming an associate professor of law and with a few book under her belt, Roseline Njogu doesn’t take all the credit for her career success. “I was shaped by a series of amazing teachers, from my mother all the way to university professors.”

And something she lives by that we can all learn from… “I am driven by this nagging question: If xxx can do it, why can’t I? If not me, then who?”

Courtesy: True Love

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