It took me 28 friggin' long years to finally find something that I enjoyed doing. Still, I consider myself lucky because I can totally imagine many people finding what they enjoy doing even later in life.
This is my story of how I started as a 16 year old shy boy to an agency owner earning $10k monthly recurring revenue at the age of 33.
By the way, is $10k per month a big number for you?
Maybe. Maybe not. But it was definitely a goal that I had in my mind since the past few years.
And to get to this number as a business and not as a salaried employee made it for me personally way more meaningful.
I've divided my story into 7 stages. Each stage brought its own sense of challenges.
So how does it start? Like a lot of people, you consciously start understanding yourself and your personality around 16 years of age. Puberty hits you like you a bus and before you know it, you gather that you are a shy guy who doesn't like to speak publicly on stages. You have friends but some of them actively make fun of you. And you are aware. They think you don't know. But you know.
So you do the next best thing. Focus on clearing your exams (because in India, your exams decide what you will study). You don't even get to ask yourself if you even want to study Physics, Chemistry or Maths. But you do. Because everyone said so. So I did.
Getting around 30,000 rank in the exam in India got me an admission at a college called National Insitute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT, Ranchi). The course "allotted" to me based on my rank was a Bachelors in Manufacturing Engineering. Did I know what I was getting into? No. Did I still go forward because it was a government college in India? Yes. The logic was that Government Colleges in India have a better reputation than the private ones. So go to a government college. And that will lead you a good job. So I did.
As the shy, introverted me went to this town of Ranchi
