Before the placement season began in my final year of B.Tech, my friends and I were confident. We genuinely believed cracking an 8–9 LPA job would be easy. We had prepared, we had skills, and we had dreams.
Then July arrived—and reality hit hard.
Category: Story
StoryTime | Why I Chose Python — And How It Changed My Career?
Back in my college days, most students were busy mastering C++ or Java, because every company visiting the campus preferred those languages for coding rounds.
Even my faculty advised me to pick Java and “at least become an expert in it.”
But I had already made my decision.
I chose Python — and decided to stick with it.
StoryTime | My First Project Experience in IT — From Panic to Growth
The day I joined my first project as a fresher in an MNC, I thought I’d start slow — maybe shadow someone, understand the system, or assist with small tasks.
But no.
I was handed a 4,000-line shell script — the main script of the entire module — and told:
“Go through this today. Share your understanding tomorrow.”
StoryTime| From Content Writer to Data Engineer: A Path I Never Planned
If you’d asked me in college what I’d become after graduation, I’d have probably said:
“Maybe a Python content writer… definitely not a developer.”
I wasn’t into competitive programming.
I was somewhere between a “basic coder” and a “kuch toh aata hai” coder.
But life — and career — had different plans for me.
StoryTime | How I Overcame My Fear of Speaking and Gained Confidence in College?
I was never a topper.
I was never a failure either.
I lived somewhere in the “decent marks zone” — the middle child of academia. Not loud enough to be noticed, not quiet enough to be forgotten.
But if you asked me what I really lacked during my school days, it wasn’t grades — it was confidence.