First of all I would like to give a little introduction of
myself, so you can understand my background,
“I did my graduation in Eng literature and
then MBA in IT and Finance and the most awful thing is that I don't have
background of either”.
Therefore at the beginning I faced many hurdles to land a job,
every interviewer wanted to know why did I go for IT and Finance, actually to
tell the truth, the decision was wrong anyway since I’m very expert in
manipulation so finally got a job and the thing was going fine. Due to my
continuous success in my job I become very dear to management of that company
and that time I came to know that there is a misunderstanding among the
partners.
I was about to leave that company for the hope to hike in my
salary as everybody was known to me in that Industry so I wanted to take the
benefit of that situation then suddenly one of the Partner of that company came
to me and offered me to start our own business at the beginning I was hesitating
to go with him since it seems a kind of cheating others for the benefit of
personal gains but somehow that man succeeded in his mission and convinced me
to start our own, I kept all the ethics in shelf and started with him, and this
is the biggest blunder decision of my life so far.
Many close friends and former colleagues of mine said I was
“brave”, “courageous” and “did the right thing”. Some also told me that they
“wished they had the courage to do exactly the same thing” and that it would be
a “fantastic feeling” to do it. For me I knew it was my biggest career mistake
I could have done till date.
For Startup, according to me, 1st, either you go for
your own (Sole Proprietorship) or if you are going with partner(s) then you
must know him/her (them) in details, their background everything or at least
they should not be so selfish to leave you alone in the dense forest where
there numerous starving dangerous carnivorous animals are living. 2nd,
the most important thing is that you must have that much backup that if God
forbade, your business go down for some reason as startup has many ups and
downs then you can be able to survive with your business in these days. (by
backup I mean financially strong enough).
And if succeeded in 1st two points then be ready to
answer for the 3rd point until you are Mark Zuckerberg of FB,
“Sooo, how is your business doing?! Is it growing?!” “When will you have your BMW?”
You may fed up by explaining to people that a business needs
more than one day to grow.
At the beginning of my startup everything was going fine during
these days when I was about to be a father I’m out of my business for around 2
months (I mean I could not be able to focus on business) everything has been
collapsed, my clients were not served well by my company so they ultimately abandoned
me, I was expecting others would take care but nobody took care your work, you
are the sole responsible, when I returned to business with full concentration
everything was beyond my reach, I tried my level best but it was over and my
half partner had a secret strategy to push me out of business, told me lets divide
the employee, you bear the half expense and I’ll bear the half as the
cunningness underneath here was(which I later understood) he has few fixed
clients, I don’t have enough fortune, could not bear the burden of expenses,
first, I’m out of my savings then I bound to release my employees, my card has
been blacklisted and ultimately I'm kicked out of my own business.
After winding up my business I was expecting to land a job soon
as I have lots of exp in my field but I was wrong, interviewer always have a
problem, they says you are an entrepreneur by heart and we need an employee,
till day I’m unable to understand what the F*** difference between an Entrepreneur
by heart and Employee but I think it's just a matter of time, sometimes things
are happen in front of your eyes and you cannot do anything expect to bear the
pain lies underneath, thus time was passing by, one month, two month, three
month until eight month after my business I could not land a job for me then I made
a strategy and changed my CV, omit the Entrepreneurship portion. During these
days where was the status of morale I could not say, I was started thinking of
myself that I’m a useless burden on the earth.
Then a very local company was showing some mercy and interest on
me and I finally got a job, they did not go to check the details of my past I
think they were in hurry to hire one so they hired me.
This eight month I went through the pain, trauma and agony could
not be able to express in words, soon realized I was starting to pull myself
away from social gatherings and eventually find myself alone in the desert, out
of savings, card is blocked, borrowed from others were also finished and
lender, banker everybody started pressuring me to return back their money,
nobody tried to understand my situation, my wife and kid left me and went away what
else I can say, I’ve no idea perhaps this was my life’s worst experience.
What happened to me, made me stronger but I would never do it
again, because it came with a big price and could have ruined a promising
career and importantly sucked my life and the worst part of this entrepreneurship
was I lost many close friends and one best friend.
What about you? Do you have any similar experiences and how did
you pick your career back in the track? Waiting to hear your story…
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