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10 Years on, and am still the guy who figures it out.<\/p>\n
Ten years ago I joined Tata Motors and I thought that was the start of a career. Most start their first job and say MBA in two years, consulting in 4 and get on the ladder thereafter.<\/p>\n
I started my job and said I need to clear those loans we took for the degree from BITS Pilani and stabilize the family. I wasn\u2019t particularly good at anything out of college. Just a car I built with a team and some time spent teaching kids in nearby slums. So when Tata Motors offered a PPO I took it. <\/p>\n
One year into it, I landed a job at Ather which in 2017 was a reckless bet. Especially for someone with no family money to fall back on if it failed, and an industry no one believed in yet.<\/p>\n
You know why I loved it?
Coz I drive an EV back in 2014 at E-Baja and fell in love with it. I chased Ather for almost 2 years (once in my final year and then while I was at TATA Motors) because I wanted to build an EV.<\/p>\n
I figured, building was something I liked a lot.<\/p>\n
From 2016 till almost 2020 while loans sat on my chest, every single month, I was in a role that exposed me to a wide variety of things at Ather. The true formative years of my life i\u2019d say. <\/p>\n
But exposure isn\u2019t the same as experience.<\/p>\n
Things only started looking better once I switched jobs. Along the way I cleared loans, it was a massive weight off my shoulder. Then Covid hit. <\/p>\n
But I figured out a way to stick around and keep working my goals. <\/p>\n
I guess goals is an exaggeration. <\/p>\n
For me it was everything I had to do.
There was no other choice.<\/p>\n
I figured out a way to set up a base for my family.
That took years, and it took not spending on a lot of things other people my age were spending on without thinking twice.<\/p>\n
Along the way I found little joys wherever I could, traveling, writing, reading a bit. I never went deep into either, not the way I wanted to. No long sabbaticals, no six-month trips, no sitting down to write a book with nothing else pulling at me. I just took whatever slice of time I could grab and put it into those things. A weekend here. A blog post there. I knew It wasn\u2019t enough to get them anywhere. But I didn\u2019t have a choice.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the thing I don\u2019t say out loud much \u2014 a lot of my peers, people who started at the exact same point I did, got to enjoy things I didn\u2019t. Trips I skipped. Purchases I delayed. Evenings I couldn\u2019t take off. That\u2019s not a complaint, it\u2019s just the trade I made. I picked stability for my family over ease for myself, and I\u2019d pick it again, but I\u2019m not going to pretend it didn\u2019t cost something.<\/p>\n
I made mistakes too. Personal ones, professional ones. Bet on the wrong things sometimes, trusted the wrong situations, took longer than I should have to walk away from a couple of them. None of that was free either.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s what all of it built, and this is the only part I\u2019m actually proud of: I became someone who never knows what it feels like to be helpless.<\/p>\n
Financial crunch, family pressure, COVID shutting the world down, now AI trying to rewrite what my skills are even worth?
None of it has ever left me stuck. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t do stuck. I will always figure out a way. That\u2019s not a mindset I read somewhere and adopted. It\u2019s just what ten years of not having a choice turned me into.<\/p>\n
I never stand somewhere I don\u2019t fully accept. If I don\u2019t like where I am, I find the way out. That\u2019s the whole story. <\/p>\n
The job titles, the companies, the pivots and everything else is just detail.<\/p>\n
Ten years down.
I\u2019m still the guy who figures it out.<\/p>\n
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