After 2+ months of toil and fuzzy actions. I finally made my first few thousand bucks (about a third of my tech job’s monthly salary) yesterday! Wow! what a feeling. It felt like ‘finally 
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May was a tough month. Breakdowns after breakdowns. I am so full of smiles as I write this . Remembering all those fuzzy thoughts wondering about ‘why am I not able to earn without taking up a job‘. Those repeated glances to the last few 100 Rs notes left in my wallet. Remembering my choice of ‘no cold drinks, coffees, fast food or eating eggs with dinner‘. Those endless thoughts of ‘I gotta do something soon‘. Of, ‘Its already 9th and I gotta pay my bills‘. Remembering talking to Deepu, sharing with her how bad I felt asking for money, even from her! Thanks honey, you have stood by me thick and thin.
How did it happen? Well, I had taken on doing sales because I like sales and marketing. I mentioned the same to Kesava and he gave me an idea of selling some amazing books for children. He invested in my training fee and said that I’ll share the percentages on the leads he gives me to a maximum of 4-5 times the training fee… you know, like a typical VC (I asked him to have it be that way). I saw the books and absolutely loved them. They were colorful and gave away a wealth of information. I went on finished my 4 day training and called my good friends Maggi and Sujai. I told them of the books and said that I want them to have a look at it. I asked my manager Manisha, to do a presentation instead of me because I didn’t have enough facts by then. We met, Manisha showed them the value, Sujai and Maggi absolutely loved the books and they took 2 sets! One for their daughter and one for their niece. And that is how, yours truly made his first few bucks doing something other than software 
I had many options to choose which kind of sales I wanna do. This was the only thing that gave me the ‘wow’ effect. The product is truly extraordinary.
I had a chat with Papa on the 9th and shared with he was as usual interested on what I was doing towards my finances. I told him of the actions that I took and the breakdowns that I faced. He said ‘Good Keep going’. I told him clearly that if I am not making 20k by July, I am taking up a job again… Yesterday I got a message from my bank that 10k have been deposited in it. I am sure they are from Papa. Thanks dad! Deepu deposited another 6k. And I just feel so lucky in life.
By the end of this month, I’ll pay off my credit card bills and dump them. By next month, I’ll pay Deepu back and also send some money home.
Things are falling in place, and I am very far from living a life of freedom and power. But I am on my way. All this is a part of the journey. And I am gonna do well.
I was wondering if I keep this post private or public. Of course it should be private. But I have shared a lot of breakdowns in the public domain. (That was before wordpress shared the private post feature). But I have started sharing my blog’s address now with friends and somehow I get this itchy feeling of them coming to know how my state of affairs have been… But I guess, they already know all of this. Besides, sharing my life the way it is, doesn’t make me small in any way. I am posting it. I guess Arun and a few others will lecture me about this if they get to read this post. And I only feel luckier to have friends like them.
