You have just defaulted on your loan. Or you need to pay up for some important items. This gets you into serious problems, so you go ahead to think of “uncommon jobs” to get the much-needed cash, if all goes well, manage to deal with the challenging situation. Here is how to get started:
1.Coin Vendors
There are people who exchange coins for notes. For every Sh100 note, a customer would in return receive Sh90 coins.
- Personal Shoppers
Did you know that there are “human glovos”? Instead of adding your items to a cart, you can contact a personal shopper to get whatever you want and bring it to wherever you are.
- Egg Donors
For a substantial amount of cash you can ethically sell your ovum. In some institutions, one can fetch up to Sh50,000.
- Dog walker
People get paid to walk dogs around lavish neighbourhoods.
- Matatu Fillers
Get paid to sit in a matatu. In most bus stops, there are guys who pose as passengers; they would disembark from a bus, one by one, especially when it is almost full, but making some cash at the end of it all.
- House Sitters
Their work is to sit as away to keep a house safe when the owner is not around.
- Professional Mourners
At a fee they offer deafening wails to give your loved one a “heroic” send off. They are generally hired by family members to grieve at funerals – this activity is popular in Western parts of Kenya and the intention is mainly to push up number of participants in a funeral while providing new faces as well as showing support for the deceased.
- Sperm for Cash
While donation is mostly done anonymously partly because it is not regulated by law, for a substantial amount of money you can sell your sperm, with beneficiaries splashing from as low as Sh15,000 to at least Sh100,000 depending on the beneficiary.
- Surrogacy
Women earn money by carrying a baby for another person or couple. They get compensation for their time, effort and the physical demands of being pregnant and giving birth.
- Traffic car cleaners
Enterprising people, especially younger people clean cars and windshields during traffic snarl-up and ask for as little as Sh20 or Sh50 once they are done.
- Matatu and ‘tukutuk’ passenger loaders
They are stationed at bus stops and their work is to help the touts to call passengers into the matatu or tuktuk.
- Packing Boys
They direct you on how to pack mostly in tight spaces .
- Traffic Marshalls
They direct drivers on which routes to use in order to avoid traffic at a small cut.
- “ Ferries” and piggybackers
People use carts popularly known as mkokoteni or carry people on their backs to get people from one point to another mainly during the rainy season .
Compiled by Barbara Owano Lubukha and Hilda Wanjiku
