Ever since I was a child I had social anxiety. I was introverted and didn’t talk to anyone as I feared that I would be judged if I express my opinion. I spent most of my childhood lonely without any friends. The only person I spoke to was my grandfather. I could easily articulate my thoughts to him and could talk to him about anything and everything.
While working in my last company (Jacobs Engineering India Pvt ltd) I got a chance to work for Aditya Birla Grasim Project of Caustic Soda Expansion in Rehla Plant. In this project, I got a chance to sub lead process department for the very first time and it was the turning point of my life. It helped me to develop myself as a leader, developing strategies and managing team to release all documents as per the schedule to meet project requirement. This project helped me to gain leadership and mentoring qualities. I am glad to be a part of Aditya Birla family indirectly.
At the very early stage of my life, adaptability and an open mindedness towards change were infused in me. Since my father had a transferrable job, it gave me a delightful opportunity to stay in various parts of the country. Living in different geographies and mixing with different cultures of India had a major role in grooming my personality. This exposure instilled in me the confidence to face new things in my life and experiment different challenges without any hesitation.
From childhood, I was the student who would avoid eye contact with the teacher to avoid answering questions. My biggest fear was that if I babble something in front of the class and my classmates laughing at me. This ‘if’ kept me in dark till I finished my school. In college, I got an opportunity to work for the underprivileged people. My work was to create content for communication classes in orphanages. My friends encouraged me to handle class for the underprivileged students, but I always used to refuse. I mustered the courage and decided to conduct a class. I was surprised when my friends told that I did good. This made me understand until you try, you will not know your capabilities. Since then I started accepting new challenges. I failed in many challenges, and took my failure as a learning experience and continued experimenting.
A desire to start something new in a community is when you face challenges harsh enough to shatter your dream. But the achievement only comes, when you smash those walls with your courage.
Aditya Birla Group (ABG) is an Indian multinational conglomerate founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. It is a multi billion dollar conglomerate which has its presence in several sectors in India like cement, fashion, fmcg, financial services, education, telecom and IT services.
History was never a favourite subject with me in school. I never understood why it was necessary to know the past. While I prepared for this essay, I stumbled on to a story, as rich and thrilling as India’s story of Independence.
All of us have different views on what life means to them. Some people choose to be optimistic and focus on the bright side whereas some choose to indulge in constant grumbling about the adversities of their life. We as humans tend to get accustomed to one setting and find hard to cope with change.
