Published on 4th June, 2025

When I took this photo, I was in a meeting as a Software Engineer for [Redacted]. We were working a loan app.

It was a collaboration between my company, MTN, they have a subsidiary call Mobile Money (MoMo) Limited and Bank of Ghana.

And I was there! 26 year old Garu boy. I have no computer science/engineering background, and you know already, my highest school qualification in WASSCE.

I only got my first computer in 2017, followed my interest and learnt everything I know about computers/programming on the internet. Youtube videos, books and documentations.

It was so surreal to me that I just couldn't believe it was happening. What made it even more surreal was the fact that in 2018/19 I had a similar idea that I thought I could build into a company, I even wrote down the idea in a my S6 which I lost and here I was working in a company bringing this into reality. I have this habit of writing down ideas so I don't forget. In fact, right now, I try to write everything that I find interesting about my minds wanders to.

My monthly salary was GHS7000 net. As I write this I am no longer with the company, in fact I haven't been employed for the past 2 months and I am not looking for a job. I have exhausted all the savings I made from that job too. But I am still not looking for job. I don't think a would derive a lot of joy from working for another company like that. If Hubtel, Fido(I interviewed last year and didn't get in) or turntabl comes knocking, I might reconsider but I am super sure that they won't come lol.

Ediiiiiit: Depending on who is reading, depending on how much you have made, I am just here to say if the salary is peanuts to you, sorry. I have made GHS 0 for the majority of my life. Now I make GHS 0 a month. I have made GHS 70,000 a month before and I am working on 10x that. It is a journey thingy.

I am focused on pursuing other interests. More on this later. But boils down to the kind of person that I am. Never afraid to take risks. Understanding very well when I am not longer super interesting in something or I feel like for the long term, the pursuit is not going to help me make the kind of impact I want to have in the world. More on this later. But it is the reason why I stopped spoken word poetry, the reason why I stopped photography and the reason why I moved away from crypto. I will write about this some day.

I don't know how to write this without it looking like a brag, but I have thought hard about this and I think the message is important to share and the message is, what ever your dreams are, what ever your passions are pursue them relentlessly.

And as Kwaku Frimpong said, "Find my devil, choke en neck", I hope you find your dreams and choke their necks to never leave you.