This is Why Citizen TV’s Julie Gichuru Preferred Media Over Her Law Career

Just in case you didn’t know, Julie Gichuru is a trained lawyer. Even so, there are many reasons that compelled her to join Media.

In an interview with Salim Amin of A24, Julie Gichuru disclosed how she ventured to her thriving media career. As a child, Julie wanted to become a criminal lawyer.

She developed a passion for criminal law after watching criminal lawyers defending the innocent. She got an opportunity to fulfill her childhood dream when she went to UK and joined Cardiff University from where she would study criminal law.

Julie got a rude shock when she found out her imagination of criminal law was very different from the reality; she disagreed with every concepts of criminal law. She instead loved commercial law and marriage law. Julie finished her degree in law then did MBA (World Trade Law and International Business).

Upon returning to Kenya, Julie faced the bitter reality of unemployment, she tarmacked for a while hunting for jobs that were not forthcoming. She was living with her grandmother and she desperately needed cash to support her.

With zero prospect of ever getting a job for what she studied for, Julie decided to walk into KTN to ask for a job. She went to do the screen test feeling very confident. After the screen test, she received heartbreaking news when Njoroge Mwaura (a popular KTN news anchor of the time) told her he rated her screen test 3/10.

The anguished Julie left KTN with her hopes of ever getting a job severely smashed. To her surprise, KTN called her the next day to inform her to start working for them immediately. When she inquired why they needed her yet she didn’t perform well in the screen test, Julie was told it was because she had a degree in law and MBA; KTN desperately needed someone to report from the courts and to do business reporting.

That is how Julie Gichuru ventured to media; check out the full interview she had with Salim Amin on the below video:

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