Hi 
I have been a lurker for the last couple of weeks, and really felt that this forum is different from other ones I have visited for business/ start-up advice, with awesome stories from many folks here.
My Story:
31-year-old male, was an engineer by education and worked in engineering for 4 years. But never felt satisfied, the pay was good, but work did not inspire me much. I tried a couple of businesses once as a freelance consultant for renewable energy and a music production company. But having ‘ cooler than thou’ attitude never helped, which resulted in me ignoring foundations of good business.
In the back of my mind, I never wanted 500 Million, but a good life enjoying my work and the finer things in life. In the last 4 years, I was searching intensively for different kind of work, and kept jumping from engineering to marketing and back to engineering while trying to run the businesses I mentioned. Having to move across different countries made it slightly convenient to change my line of work, but I always had to start anew. Fast forward in 2019, I moved to Canada and landed a job as an engineer, as it seemed like the safest option to set up myself in a new country. Again the money was good, but I was not satisfied in this career, I tried to take advice from others but always got discouraging feedback. Be happy and grateful, you landed a well-paying job right away, which people would kill for.
In 2020, I received offers to produce music tracks for films, which I did. But after trying to make this thing work over the last 3 years, I never made more than 3k, hence I decided to let go of it of my music producer dream ( mostly craving for fame) and keep playing music casually. But in that period, I started writing short stories and was really excited to sit in front of my laptop everyday ( even more than producing music), as I had a lot of time during lockdown. Towards the tail end of my first wave, I was laid off from my engineering job. I followed the usual pattern of grief; was sad for a week, angry and blamed others instead of looking within myself. Scared at the same time, how will I pay rent specially during covid when its difficult to get job. I started doing food delivery for some time and looked for career inspiration through videos & blogs but after that I kind of realized that this is what I wanted and I have been thrown in the deep end, now I need to find a line of work which I will really enjoy.
I took a break from everything and would spend time in nature contemplating what kind of work I have really enjoyed whether it was during internship or my entrepreneurial attempts. Viola, month after getting laid off, I wanted to work in sales. Right away I took action and found a mentor, who provided a crash course in tech sales. In Nov 2020( 3 months after getting laid off), I landed a job in sales at a tech startup.
My goals for 2021
Complete the novel I started, now at 15k words.
Become an account executive at my tech company.
PS: I know my story might sound like lot of things crammed in, but I have wandered a lot in the last 5 years, but I feel at a good place with my current side hustle of writing a book and job.
Onwards and upwards from here
I have been a lurker for the last couple of weeks, and really felt that this forum is different from other ones I have visited for business/ start-up advice, with awesome stories from many folks here.
My Story:
31-year-old male, was an engineer by education and worked in engineering for 4 years. But never felt satisfied, the pay was good, but work did not inspire me much. I tried a couple of businesses once as a freelance consultant for renewable energy and a music production company. But having ‘ cooler than thou’ attitude never helped, which resulted in me ignoring foundations of good business.
In the back of my mind, I never wanted 500 Million, but a good life enjoying my work and the finer things in life. In the last 4 years, I was searching intensively for different kind of work, and kept jumping from engineering to marketing and back to engineering while trying to run the businesses I mentioned. Having to move across different countries made it slightly convenient to change my line of work, but I always had to start anew. Fast forward in 2019, I moved to Canada and landed a job as an engineer, as it seemed like the safest option to set up myself in a new country. Again the money was good, but I was not satisfied in this career, I tried to take advice from others but always got discouraging feedback. Be happy and grateful, you landed a well-paying job right away, which people would kill for.
In 2020, I received offers to produce music tracks for films, which I did. But after trying to make this thing work over the last 3 years, I never made more than 3k, hence I decided to let go of it of my music producer dream ( mostly craving for fame) and keep playing music casually. But in that period, I started writing short stories and was really excited to sit in front of my laptop everyday ( even more than producing music), as I had a lot of time during lockdown. Towards the tail end of my first wave, I was laid off from my engineering job. I followed the usual pattern of grief; was sad for a week, angry and blamed others instead of looking within myself. Scared at the same time, how will I pay rent specially during covid when its difficult to get job. I started doing food delivery for some time and looked for career inspiration through videos & blogs but after that I kind of realized that this is what I wanted and I have been thrown in the deep end, now I need to find a line of work which I will really enjoy.
I took a break from everything and would spend time in nature contemplating what kind of work I have really enjoyed whether it was during internship or my entrepreneurial attempts. Viola, month after getting laid off, I wanted to work in sales. Right away I took action and found a mentor, who provided a crash course in tech sales. In Nov 2020( 3 months after getting laid off), I landed a job in sales at a tech startup.
My goals for 2021
Complete the novel I started, now at 15k words.
Become an account executive at my tech company.
PS: I know my story might sound like lot of things crammed in, but I have wandered a lot in the last 5 years, but I feel at a good place with my current side hustle of writing a book and job.
Onwards and upwards from here
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thank you.
