I have never considered myself to be in a dearth situation. Either I have never been in one or I have never thought myself to be in a situation from where I can’t rise from. I have taken every hardship as a challenge. There might be some instances where I haven’t reached the pinnacle but those situations have taught me a lot.
Thinking about challenges reminds me of last 3 quarters of 2018 where I was employed in a renowned MNC. I was employed for almost 2 years in a Software Development profile and was seeing that my life was going nowhere sitting there and doing minuscule changes in the code every day. Somewhere in my mind I knew I had to go for an MBA, so I decided to prepare for the same but little did I know that it won’t be that easy of a ride.
At the end of Q2-2018, a critical requirement came to develop a new functionality (Borrower Document Upload) for my project based on a latest technology (AngularJs). My UI team consisted of 2 developers including me who were working on the project. But my colleague had to quit as he got a great offer from a start-up. Now, the sole responsibility came on my shoulders to get the job done which I had to manage with my CAT preparations and leaving the company at that time wouldn’t have been a professional decision.
With all this going on, I lost 2 of my family members due to chronic diseases in the month of September. That time was very hard for my family and for me as well, as I was working in Chennai (native Lucknow) and couldn’t be with my family at the time of emergency which did hurt me mentally for days to come.
I lost a considerable amount of time in creating logical solutions for the Client Requirement with my studies getting hampered. I was both mentally and physically fatigued and almost gave up on MBA.
But my friends and family got me out of it and I took out time for both my company and my CAT exam, I fared well in both the tasks even though I thought couldn’t be.
I secured a reasonable percentile in my CAT to crack a more than decent college and I was awarded a Star Performer for Q4 for my account in 2018.
So, from my point of view there can be no dearth challenge without continuous hard work. There might be a “moment” to show for it but it is a whole journey in itself.
