My experience with education and how it changed my life upside down.
Education and Hard Work really pay off. To explain this I’ll share some part of my life story here.
In school I was a decent student neither so bad nor so good, I would say that I was just an average and that was actually not because I didn’t have the caliber to study. I was just an average student because I chose to be. At that time I had no clue what I wanted to do in my life and thought education is not that important. Just look at Ambanis, Bill Gates, and other people who are really rich but are not well educated.
So I always thought that education is of no use and my parents did not have that kind of money to put me through a medical or engineering degree so I didn’t study that hard but managed to get decent scores in my high school and Junior college.
Another thing that played role in my ignorance is that I was not guided properly and I did not have any clue how to become an engineer, doctor, lawyer, IAS, IPS, or anything at all in life. I just thought you just need to keep studying whatever is taught you in college and get whatever job you will get and spend the rest of your life like that.
Until I had to drop out from my undergraduate program and work in a call center for a good 10 or 12 months. After working for 11 months there I saved all of my salaries and again took admission in BSc. Comp Science and studied just to clear my exams not to compete or anything. After two years in my undergrad, I got a little bit interested in coding and started learning that all by myself.
I got so interested in coding that I used to code 12 hours a day, I started coding so much that my friends started to worry that I would fail the exams cause I was not studying as much as I should have, I used to eat, sleep rest, walk cause my body needed it not my mind. I was so interested in coding that I used to take showers and eat my lunch at 5 PM or 6 PM in the evening.
But as exams started coming closer I split the time in 50–50 and learned coding for 6hours and studies around 4 hours. That hard work started changing my life and the results started coming out. The first thing that happened to me as I topped the entire class and immediately professors and faculty members of the college started recognizing me. I become an immediate threat to other students and they got afraid that I would surpass them which I did anyway. I got PPOs from three MNC’s but still as I was interested in coding and I wanted to become a coder, not some support guy or trainee or something.
While I was learning to code I built an android app put it on live and created my LinkedIn profile and applied for internships in few startups, still, I thought that I won’t be able to get a job cause my DS and Algorithms are not that strong so I chose to become an intern rather than becoming a full-time employee and I thought I would do masters after the internship.
Soon after my application I got a call from one startup and they hired me as a Software Engineer despite not having an engineering degree and I worked there to the best of my ability and soon my BSc. results came out and again topped the class in my final year as well.
I was getting a pay raise every three months in my first company cause of my performance. Fast forward almost 4 years I am making a good amount of money to live a decent life and still considering higher education. I have bought Play station, I have two mac book pros, one iPhone one Note 10 I bought some expensive shoes which I dreamed of when I was in college. I have rented one apartment where I work as a freelance software engineer. Because of my job I have visited two countries already. Life has never been better than this to me.
So realizing that education and hard work won’t go unnoticed totally changed my life.
So if you are in high school or still in college and studying I would suggest you explore all the horizons learn how to become an astronaut, IAS, engineer, or CEO of google. Learn how to get scholarships, education loans, and go for higher studies. Learn how to finance your education if your parents can not afford it. Get the highest degree in your field of study I guarantee you that your entire life would change.
DO NOT DROP OUT OF COLLEGE OR TAKE EDUCATION LIGHTLY CAUSE YOU HAVE NO FREAKING IDEA HOW POWERFUL EDUCATION IS UNTIL YOU REALISE KEEP WORKING HARD AND STUDYING.
If this blog inspired you to study a little bit harder please do clap. Thank you!!
