Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba

Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and Project PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Candidate Program graduate. She is the co-founder, CEO, and chairwoman of Vicillion, a global infrastructure development firm. Quotes Each day or week is never the same; that is the unpredictability factor when you’re working towards greatness. I stopped setting any hard deadlines or milestones after I graduated high school. I knew by then that I didn’t want a normal existence on this planet. Nothing wrong if that is what someone else desires, it’s just not for me. I don’t set any societal expectations for myself. If you’re good at something, never do it for free. We are avid problem-solvers – as long as we are imperfect as a species, there will always be problems to solve or improve on, and we are leveraging that fact. I worked with people in different age brackets in my department, so I analysed diverse perspectives. Although the experience was great, I realised that it was not meant for me. I didn’t see the point, personally, of working for any corporation my whole life, where I would not be able to impact people’s lives and engage in endeavours that matter to me. When I was younger, I was interested in science and learning about how the world worked and objects from outer space. So, I wanted to combine my passion for learning about space and how things work – and the answer was Aerospace Engineering. If you live with limitations on yourself, you won’t accomplish much, but the world is your oyster if you put no limits. There’s nothing worse than living in regret, so take a chance on yourself; you are capable of a lot more than you think. External links Category:Living people Category:Aerospace engineers Category:Women engineers from Kenya