I was about 20 when I got offered a position of junior analyst at Goldman Sachs. I was in my final year of Mass Communication and Goldman Sachs had come to my college for campus placement and when I got selected and the offer came in I was pretty excited. They were offering me a fair amount of money, a chance to move to a big city and a chance at a real job.  Until then I was just going through college as a typical teen, not having a clue of what I wanted to do, and not worrying too much about it either.

I was placed into the credit and mortgage derivate team right when the sub-prime crisis hit the US credit markets. So I was literally thrown into the deep end and had to pick up things extremely quickly. Companies were going bankrupt before I could say TARP. Days would fly by with me spending 15-16 hours in the office at a stretch. After a year it took a toll on everyone. With the exception of the bosses and the higher ups, everyone would be complaining about their work and their life. Everybody hated what they were doing but were still doing it because the money kept them hooked.

Two years later I was bored and depressed. Bored with the monotony of sitting at my desk 14 hours a day looking at excel sheets and calling clients and depressed because of the constant negativity at work. My father was insistent that if I quit it would only be to study further and by studying further it meant an MBA which depressed me even further. I struggled through the dreariness of another year and by then made up my mind that I would never work for a corporate again.

I quit my job after 3.5 years and moved back home to Goa. I took a break for about 5 months, travelled a little bit, learnt a bit of guitar and thought about what I truly loved and what I wouldn’t mind working for. I listed out football, automobiles, music, and reading as the things I was most passionate about. With my background in communications I thought my best bet to get into these fields would be to write about them. So I packed my bags, broke my fixed deposits and headed to XIC in Bombay to polish my writing skills.

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