My Story - My Learnings

10 years today !!! Being #CharteredAccountant

Looking back tonight at last 10 years, I can relive all the feelings , whilst thinking about the same I would like to pen down and share few learning , few feelings :

?Gratitude:

I have cleared my CA finals before i was even i turned 20th , one of the youngest at that time in CIRC , generally the personwho clears CA become happy as he have done the hard work in my case , my entire family , extended family, my principal and even entire chown ( area ) was very happy. My grandfather distributed sweets like anything and there was holi/diwali on the same day . The best day of my life thus far was 19thJuly2012 .

?After CA what happens that we should call life, i was not getting job due to age factor (minimum age was 21 years), not getting opportunity of campus, not getting interview calls and which i got was so underconfident got rejected in first 10 minutes.

?Many people have helped me in this journey, for becoming chartered accountant for becoming the person today i am. I am great full and i remind me the same thing daily, being grateful for whatever you have.?

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Respect:

After being jobless for 7 months as CA I got a job from 950 kms away from home , I had only 4K saving and sharing flat with 8 people to meet ends. To family i was always staying in well managed place and having good food whereas i started from washing utensils to gradually making curry one day. For a year i used to work like anything from morning to late nights knowing there is no money but what i wanted is to learn surviving. That one year taught me to respect everyone around you to get respect, money can make you rich earn you fake respect but cannot earn respect . Real lessons are learned when you are not having money.

Learning:

I thought working in Surat is what i will be doing as i have seen people working there for ages and settling from Rajasthan but this is what i Thought not what life thought . I had to move back to home town when i lost my Indian idol cousin in very young age , my family and we all were broke and i had to be there in home for a year continuing my learning journey there . However may be that was a comma not a stop , i continued from there to Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai and finally took a stop at Gandhidham, Gujarat?

There i got life learning and one of the best line from my boss/mentor "Whatever you learns will stay with you”.?

Integrity:

While working in Gandhidham or in industry i got introduced to Corporate life ! it was not very different from a normal life but indeed more artificial . I was often getting feedback to act smartly / answer politically or communicate properly. I was wondering what i am doing wrong ? is being true to yourself wrong or being true to your colleagues with you spend your most of the time of aliveness is wrong ? why i need to lie to someone ?

i did many a times introspection and still do sometimes. No one is doing wrong in corporate life or life . Everyone is working for their survival and they are right at their own place, just take a pause and think for a second keeping yourself in their shoes all are correct , than why this kollavery di !

I figured out a shortcut , let it be you cannot change people/situation around you but what you can try is change / control yourself . Be honest to yourself and your values , rest all is life .

Seek Help?/ Help others:

Life is uncertain, all knows nothing is permanent in this world still we are running in this cycle . Life is short, what will be left is only memories and the good deeds . What I have learned in last 10 years is whenever / wherever possible I will help people around me. I had to do all the things from scratch, I feel wonderful now looking back that I have learned so much in this journey. I always seek help from my seniors / friends / colleagues or anyone and the same I make sure that I help whenever possible others be it anyone of linkedin for message/ colleagues / friends / juniors . While I was in Singapore or africa I found so many super colleagues and nicest of the friends for life who helped me to survive who helped me understand myself more. Life is simple like boomerang whatever you ll through will come back to you !

Be what you are

I am emotional that’s what they say , i have my own food preferences, I have my own believes about god and I have my own believes for drinks/alcohol . there is continuous pressure from outside to change / to change you / your habits . it depends on us what to change and what not . Earlier I was thinking being emotional is an issue , but later I believe its essential for me. We will be dead without emotions, let people let circumstances try whatever they can , you don’t change yourself until YOU really want

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Believe in the Journey and Enjoy

From the unconfident person to NOW, from not speaking English and fainting in interviews to taking interviews and speaking sometimes in English ??

From Surat to Singapore from Singapore to Africa and wherever life takes me , I now believe in the journey , as there is no destination. ?I have had many obstacles in this journey be it small / big and ups / downs ; I have thought of giving up and running away many a times. But something always hold me back and pull me up . Be it my parents , my wife or kido ; be it my friends, my colleagues or Mukesh . Be it any bhajan , song or shayari , something helped .

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Neither I am any hero, nor I have done anything big thus far. But still I am the hero of my journey, who enjoys the ride, takes turns, falls down, hold back, support others and keep going !

I know i need to work on myself , improve communication , improve temperament , improve english , improve commitment, Need to be a better husband, son and father now, need to work on fitness and health .?I am learning and I will be learning and improving.

Will make one day ME proud of MYSELF.