Part B: How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far
“Life is not a bed of Roses” and with this said, we become prepared to face the challenges, life throws at us. During my school education days, there came a situation when the family business suffered a huge loss. Citing the poor condition of the business, my father’s partner betrayed him by transferring all the shares of the industry to his own name. Few months after this, my mother was diagnosed with a Stage -3 Breast Cancer for which she had to undergo immediate surgery, Chemo and Radiotherapy.
All the savings were exhausted in the same and there came a time when my father did not have money to pay for the school fees. With my mother on bed rest for next few years and father in depression, I being the only child in the family undertook the responsibility to manage my home, arrange for the school fees and try to excel at studies as it was the 12th standard Board Exams.
Due to a good academic record, the school authorities agreed to let go off my fee for that year and to fund my coaching expenses, I started working as an activity in-charge in some other school, teaching extra-curricular activities to kids of 3rd to 8th standard. I tried to manage the housework, school attendance, study hours and work hours simultaneously which relieved my parents of the stress of my studies. Seeing this, my Dad also got motivated to start a new project which by God’s grace helped us stabilize the family in the next 2 years. They say, “One who doesn’t learn any lesson from the downs of life is a fool” and I too learnt my share of lessons. The first one was never to invest all your money in a single project and try to stagger and generate different sources of incomes. You never know what can to your rescue and when. The second one was trying to gain as much knowledge as you can for the subject you are dealing with as the major cause of failure of Business was lack of knowledge, which prompted me to equip myself with the basics of both technical and now management studies.
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