How ABG helped me achieve my dream - MDI Gurgaon
Ultratech cement is the brand by Aditya Birla Group that has helped make a difference to my life, and as a result it is this brand that I can relate to the most. I still remember that I used to wake up every morning for work dreading the travel. My office was in Parel, and every morning at 9 am, I stood up at Khar road railway station to board the local train to go to Parel. For someone living in Mumbai, travelling in local is the toughest time of the day. You get all dressed up for office, and by the time you reach your office, you look like you slept just like this and came to work. Apart from this, travelling in local is a battle of life and death in itself (not exaggerating). So I really dreaded that part of the day and often tried to take a bus to work. I later started taking the cab when I couldn’t take the local travel anymore. Why I didn’t take the cab before? Well, Khar to Parel might be lesser that 10-12 km in distance, but the time it took through traffic during office hours would make you feel otherwise. But anyway, I still took that option anyway because I was too tired of the sweaty morning travel. All this while there was a lot of fuss about the new Bandra to Worli Sea Link that was being constructed. To be honest, it did look like an engineering marvel, and as we know now, it is one of the landmark structures of Mumbai. So when it was finally done with construction and it became operational, I can’t explain the relief it got me and many others travelling on the route. The travel time almost halved, and I could now save almost more than an hour of my travelling daily, not to mention the tiredness and travelling stress that went along with it. And guess what, the Bandra to Worli Sea link is constructed by using Ultratech cement. So soon, I decided to give my CAT exams, and prepare for it along with my job. As any person who has given it along with job would know, taking out time to study along with job is too difficult. But with the amount of time that I was saving every day in travelling, I could give one more hour towards my preparations. That one hour gave me room to freshen up after coming back from work, take a bit of rest, and then right away get on with my studies. Even during morning I could sleep that half an hour extra which gave me the much needed rest to balance the pressure of work and studies. Finally the day of my CAT result, I was so happy that I could cross that milestone and ultimately landed in one of the best B-schools in the country. If that 1 extra hour daily helped me increase my score even by just 1 percentile, it probably made all the difference between me repeating another year or studying in MDI.
