I remember being broke and for a fleeting moment wondering what it would feel like to get a rich older woman to sponsor me😬
I was completely out of financial options and couldn't figure out what else to do and I was already in debt and I couldn't see another way forward😂
It's funny how life humbles you and more and more you're less judgmental about situations that you judged other people for harshly, in your youth😂
It never happened and life worked out somehow but that was an interesting time wondering if I would be able to live that life, wondering where people find rich older women and how I would be able to live with that shame I felt I would feel😆
It would be interesting to hear from men on the other side and how that experience is and women who are sponsoring younger men and how that is and what they're getting from it.
I'm sure there are younger men everywhere around us who are kept men/sponsored ones all around us who are doing it silently because of the shame surrounding it
This thread has no lesson or particular end, it's just musings about the past.
I also think I would have made a terrible sugar baby. I'm a brilliant listener(with multiple recommendations over years) but I'm not good at keeping opinions to myself and I assume that's part of the package of being kept-minimising yourself.
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Anyang's Nyongo's flippancy about health workers is interesting considering he is public about his battle with cancer, which he has gotten treatment for abroad.
Back in 2012,Kenya's two health ministers-Nyong'o and Beth Mugo both went public about their cancer diagnosis....
In 2010, Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, Minister for Medical Services was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. Beth Mugo, Minister for Public Health and Sanitation was diagnosed with breast cancer.
They both received their diagnosis upon going for ‘regular check-ups, which most Kenyans can't afford these
They both sought treatment in the US.
Two health ministers, in charge of Kenyan healthcare, preferred treatment abroad
What's the single worst financial decision you've ever made?
I've had many bad financial decisions 😂
Investing in farming without any technical skills had me losing a few hundred thousand as I watched. I weep when I think of dairy farming 😂
I bought a phone worth a full month of my salary years back. A Nokia E5 😂
An old car that cost me more than half the sale price in repair costs. A few months was all I needed to learn my lesson. It was the financial equivalent of paying school fees in a small private school 😂
I was in a discussion about the collapse of Nakumatt I mused about the fact that Nakumatt owned nothing. Nothing at all. Not a pencil nor a shoe. Nothing. Neither did their owners and that's part of the reasons creditors couldn't get anything back and that got me thinking...
How were they allowed to operate that way and how would entities at that size, supermarkets be allowed to operate that way?
When we talk about regulatory interventions, shouldn't this include protections for creditors and stakeholders at large?
Speaking from a layman's perspective, can't laws and regulations be created around asset ownership for large corporates at that size by category, because they honestly sound like a fly by night org if they can get away with leasing everything and owning nothing...
@RookieKE talked about the meme-ification of our president as possibly being an intentional ploy by his own team. I think that it's not only plausible but part of the bigger plan to help him appear friendlier and more relatable but also excusably incompetent
So think back to George W Bush. He was a genuine idiot but people felt that that could sit down and have a beer with him😄
People were distracted away from his stupidity with his relatability but he also had the goofy reputation,which allowed him leeway when he messed up
Reputations are crafted and carefully so.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is an Eton and Oxford boy, as smart as they come who has been documented to ruffle up his hair and dress down and make himself look foolish, just before the cameras get rolling.
Today I would love to hear about women about their experiences with gynaes or around sexual reproductive health because I feel that men don't really understand(or want to) exactly what women go through
Specifically, what have your bad experiences been with gynaes? I've realised men feel that women are exaggerating when they talk about their experiences