Jovial Narrates Working at a Guest House to Fend for Her 4-Month-Old Kid

Queen of vocals from the coastal part of Kenya, Jovial has recalled how she found herself working as a receptionist at a guest house in Mombasa to earn a living to raise her young daughter during that time.

Through her Instagram stories, Jovial emotionally recounted the memories that came to her while she was relaxing after finishing the show.

She said that due to the hardships of life, she was forced to accept a job as a receptionist at a guest house where she learned to survive by using her wits to earn extra money to take care of her young daughter's needs.

She narrated how she could conspire with her workmate to re-sell the rooms whose occupants couldn’t turn up for the night.

“Yesterday, after the show, we were doing a story about hotels here and there, and I remembered when I was a receptionist at a guest house in Saba Saba, Mombasa. At that time, my child was only 4 months old,” Jovial recalled.

“My workplace was not a hotel but rather a typical guest room, that one where you are given mixed colour slippers. During the day, there was work while others were breaking for lunch, others could break and come for their private time, and so most of them never spent the night there,” Jovial revealed.

And that is how she saw an opportunity to maximise on these by cleaning the rooms and reselling them again without the managers knowing, the money which she could later use to cater for her young daughter’s needs.

“After they leave, I could wash the room together with the housekeeper, we change the bedsheets and towels, we resell them again, and we share the revenue,” she said.

After noting that some of her fans might be fast to condemn her, she asked them not to judge her, saying that she was pushed to do that because of the hardship of life and the low salary she was getting from the job.

“Don’t judge me, the salary was low, and a mother and daughter needed to survive. Someone might wonder whether there were no CCTV cameras, but at the time, God couldn’t allow it to be there because there was nowhere I could get milk for my baby,” she said.

Jovial believes her past experience with life made her tough-headed, a virtue that has greatly helped her to reshape her life together with her baby.

“Life was hard back then, now I look at my baby and I smile, she is a survivor, tough like me. I’m glad I’m rewriting my story. Sometimes I look back at these memories, I break down, but then I remember where it was not for such moments, i couldn’t be tough-headed like I am today,” Jovial admitted.