It was my 2nd year engineering when, ‘by chance’ I
got into this field of Marketing. Then, I just had intentions to make some
pocket money so that I can avoid asking for that from my very strict dad. But
over a period of time I started realizing that I was good at that. Slowly
started liking it, almost by the end of a year I had fallen in love with it completely
without even realizing it (love always happens like that you see). In this
period I was exposed to enough number of clients, had fallen, got some
knowledge & had built a team. But one thing I want to accept here is, I was
not making enough money in the field for myself. But deep down I didn’t want to
quit because, I was loving what I was doing. I used to enjoy. Slowly realized
that I had joined engineering to become ‘Engineer Marketer’. Over this period
of 24months is when I discovered myself. I found lot of passion in Marketing.
With many assumptions in my young mind, started off
entrepreneurial journey with lot of faith & interest. It really worked out
well for a couple of months. Ten months down the line lack of preparation and lack
of self development/up gradation with enough assumptions on my mind, fell down
royally.
No problem had to fall, so fell. But good thing is that I
got solid exposure, knowledge at a comparatively less age. I became confident,
very good organizer and an awesome salesman. (I love to call myself a salesman).
Slowly with patience started understanding many aspects & arena’s of life.
Started reading books, started travelling, & re-started to meet even more
people. Biggest realization: If you stop, the world doesn’t stop. So took up
marketing again, because I understood Marketing Is crudest form of
Entrepreneurship. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to be master
salesman.
Luckily today at mere 22, I’m a part of 3 start-up’s as the
senior marketing in charge. Right company, right people, right age, right
products, right ideas, right attitudes contributed & things are really
shaping up well. Today I have enough confidence that I’ll be one of the young
CMO’s in the coming times. Law of attraction works (I simply believe in it).
Awesome things about marketing that I have realized in my
small journey:
You’ll meet people from different backgrounds.
You’ll travel to lot of places.
You’ll be busy always in doing new things or doing things in
a new way.
Keeps you engaged in many things like, tweeting, Blogging
etc.
It’s an adventure- all in all.
I love Marketing, I live Marketing.
Marketing: The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous
~Peter Drucker.
Thank you & See you soon.
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