Here I Come Chennai… In A Fortnight...

“But my heart is into setting up a start-up. I want to do the startup life for a few years while I have the ability to take on a good amount of risk. I want to go miles away from what I am doing. I know I am risking it, but its fine with me… not fine with a lot of people though”

I am considering leaving Kathmandu and this organization… that might come as a big blow to everyone who knew me, all of them know I am here sitting pretty with my apartment and wife and a some money to spend with.

I know it myself too… there are professional issues at work, but I am not an idiot, I will never quit a job based on that ground. As I know now after 6 years of work experience it’s the same shit every where!!! Everybody reading this blog from an office computer would readily agree… it’s the same shit everywhere.

The reasons I am giving my wife/family/friends and myself for leaving Kathmandu and Linktree is

1) My wife is expecting so she needs to be close to home
2) Work here is long and we find it tough
3) Miss home and friends
4) A whole loads of stories like this

Honest to god this is not true. I am happy professionally as to what I am doing. I make a lot of decisions here pertaining to work, and I enjoy doing it. Its only when you decide and implement things you get to learn.

I learnt a lot, I’ve made extremely great decisions and bad ones too. That every bad decision that I thought was bad had a logical explanation behind it. I didn't always agree with the decisions but there was always a decent thought process behind every decision and, most of the time, after hearing the circumstances behind a decision I usually came to the same conclusion that they did.

It's not easy building a call center in an alien land and trying to generate over a million dollars.

Now what would have made me stay here? More money?? Relocation?? Staff?? Allowances??

Actually they offered almost all of that stuff (they didn't try the relocation part) and it still didn't work cause I wanted to do something completely different than what I was doing here. I also wanted to see if I could build something from scratch. Yeah, money and being close to my wife played into it too, but when I looked around I didn't see something that would keep me excited.

Now, if they had offered to fly around the world for business development might have been interesting. But, who knows? Maybe I'll get a chance to do that with my new company.
I enjoy working at Linktree, all the stumbles have all been or turned into a good learning.
But my heart is into setting up a start-up.

I want to do the startup life for a few years while I have the ability to take on a good amount of risk. I want to go miles away from what I am doing. I know I am risking it, but its fine with me… not fine with a lot of people though.

Here I Come Chennai… In A Fortnight