God's favourite child.
Believe it or not, this is the truth.
If a movie is ever created based on my life, it would be one of the most uninteresting movies ever made. There will be no struggle, no low points, no twists, turns, or nail-biting moments. As I like to think, I am God's favorite child. The last time I failed was when I couldn't crack IIT. You may feel that I am boasting, but trust me, that's the reality. I am extremely lucky. Let me recount all the instances that I have got lucky to you.
I have never had to apply for a job.
Again, as unbelievable as it sounds, that's the truth. I did not apply to Cisco. I had gone to take my first class in Mount Carmel and had taken a friend along with me. He got impressed and asked me why I did not apply to Cisco when I knew so much. I told him that I could not prepare for the typical interviews. He talked to his manager, she agreed not to interview too much, and just after one or two rounds, I had an offer from Cisco.
The founder of Artifacia had approached me for a casual chat. We met over tea, and by the time the conversation got over, he offered me a role at his company.
When Microsoft called, I strictly told them I am not going to prepare DSA. Even then, they said you just need to come, we will manage everything else. And just like that, I got a job offer from Microsoft.
And my luck did not stop there.
When I needed someone to take the charge of NeoG, Tanvi came in. Swapnil took over roc8, and with these two extremely competent people, I have never had to worry about a single thing.
People want to create startups and companies. I never had that dream. I always dreamt of the CTO role, not the CEO role. Yet again, I got the opportunity to work with Manish Maheshwari himself. And this also makes me the founder of invactHQ. Lucky to hoon. (I am lucky!)
Hrithik Roshan is never going to play me.
In Super 30, there was so much struggle. They did not have a proper place to live or at times, even food. Anand Kumar left his job to teach and used to wear torn shirts. If Hrithik ever plays me, he will begin his day by building a metaversity, teach kids, live in a good house comfortably, get students placed at packages of 20+ LPAs, and every other good thing. Aakhir kon dekhega aisi film? (Who will watch such a film?)
Karma is real.
My story is being written by God. I accept that I do get lucky and I am extremely grateful for it. But you can create your luck anyway. Create your serendipity engine or your engines for luck. How can you do that? By doing great work and putting it out there, by making efforts to be good at what you do every day, by taking care of relationships, by nurturing people, and most importantly, by being good at heart. Karma is a bitch but only to a dog. Remember that.
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I'll recommend PPL to read the book , 'The Unfair Advantage' to get sense of what tanay is trying to convey by 'You can create your luck'.
I didn't know the exact word to be used after reading this post, then all of a sudden one word popped into my mind i.e, Envy, I'm still not sure if that is what I'm feeling but as per Google "desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else)." is the meaning of Envy as far as this is the meaning, I envy your life pattern.
I recently resigned from a service based company where I was working as a technical support for 2.22 LPA and I got a better offer from another service based company for the same technical support role of 4.2 LPA. My family thinks that I got pretty good offer with 1 year experience but I don't feel the same. When I put my papers down, I thought I needed more money and challenging job role, however, my manager offered me 6-7 LPA and I still didn't want to continue with that role.
I want to be a Front End Developer from my college days, I guess I lost this thought over the period of this 1 year where I was spending too much time learning about the application to which I supported, I did pretty good job there as well.
Now that I got same type of role with different company and new application, I'm both excited and worried about the fact that I'm not giving enough time for what I truly love.
I need a road map which takes me to be a Front End developer and I'm very sure that I can work for them every day to be the best Front End Developer. If I can be good at a role(technical support) which I don't enjoy, I'm very sure I can be best in a role which I love(Front End Developer) - Please help me if you read this with a road map.
I'm really not sure if you'd be reading this comment but I promise to myself that I'll be a Front-End developer by End of 2022