Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) Executive Director Dr Rose Ngugi speaks during the launch of a mentorship programme for university and technical and vocational training institutes at Meru University of Science and Technology. She said the programme was mean to nurture young professionals for national development. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

As an employee, if you wake up tomorrow and your contract is terminated, your first instinct is to go into business.

It is the same instinct that has employees operating side hustles to supplement their main income.

These side hustles are not big but small businesses that are meant to either sell a service or resale and product and would rarely produce. If they do produce, it is not at scale as the owner is not at the level of industrialists Narendra Raval or Manu Chandaria.

A majority of them are also unregistered and operating informally. It could be a home bakery, an online clothing store supplied by Gikomba or a briefcase car broker or importer.

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