Challenges are part and parcel of life and they come for a reason - to push your limits, to improve your skills and more importantly to make you stronger. I have also faced challenges while accomplishing my ambitions and they have made me a better and stronger person.
Challenges not only make you strong but help you to build endurance to it if you face a similar kind of challenge again. One challenge I would like to share is getting into an excellent MBA college. This journey started way back in 2014. I couldn’t clear any of the exams. The next year I was working at Infosys. I couldn’t manage my time well so I skipped giving any of the exams that year.
The only thing that stays permanent in life is the criticism you face for your choices and they stay that way unless you act and achieve what you are supposed to. People often ask me why MBA after Engineering to mock in most of the times, I believe they are the same who are certain that a 9-6 job is synonymous to what we have achieved in these four years of B Tech.
Since childhood, I had the fascination of making it big in my career and doing something where I can make an impact within my company as well as on the lives of people. After completing my engineering, I joined TCS in a technical role. While this exposure helped me gain an in-depth understanding of the software industry, I felt like I needed the next big leap to really make my career take off.
Life would be monotonous if it weren’t for challenges. Challenges test you, bend you, teach you and change you. I would like to elaborate on one such challenge that I faced in my life.
“Great businesses are never built on the quicksands of opportunism” inspiring words by Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group. Started in 1919 as a small jute manufacturing company is now one of the biggest multi-product corporations. Every one of us is associated with Aditya Birla Group in one way or the other. In our house we can easily recognize that cement which is used is from Khajurao, Chetak, Samrat and Birla Cement, the aluminum used is from Hindalco aluminum or Indian Aluminium Company Ltd, the Cushion Vinyl, the fabric and Floor & Wall Covering everything is directly or indirectly associated with Aditya Birla Group.
For the modern and quintessential urban Indian, life seems incomplete without certain names attached to the products they use. These names, defined by the dictionary as Brands, help customers differentiate between a myriad of products on offer in the market. They are a collection of values and unique qualities that people associate with a product. They offer a sense of satisfaction and assurance of quality to the consumer, so much that there are instances where whole generations often refuse to budge from a particular brand.
The alarm was going off incessantly. It was 6:05 and I had to be inside the school grounds in 25 minutes, spick and span for the morning assembly. I begrudgingly got up and got ready to go to my school, Aditya Birla Public School. Meanwhile, my father got ready to go to his job at the Grasim Industries limited. I gobbled up everything put in front of me on the breakfast table while my mother wrapped my lunch with Freshwrapp foils so that the food wouldn’t go cold. Being a 9-year-old boy in the small industrial town of Nagda, I never realized how much of an influence the Aditya Birla Group was in my life.
