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b"I moved to Hyderabad from Bhimavaram. Growing up, I didn\\u2019t pay much attention to studies nor did performing badly in academics bother me in any way. My father on the other hand left no stone unturned to provide education to both his children. Despite facing severe losses in his business and losing more than 30-40 lakhs, he ensured that his children did not lack anything. As a family, our finances were sufficient enough to get us through our daily needs but nothing more.\\n\\nMy father\\u2019s sister, who I lovingly called Akka (which means elder sister in Telugu) was one of my favorite persons in the family. She lived in Hyderabad but would often visit us. On one of her regular trips to Bhimavaram, she asked me to move to her city to explore my career opportunities. I accepted her offer and moved here. Akka welcomed me into her heart and her home.\\n\\nI studied automobile engineering. During the first two years of my course, I took everything for granted, my family, friends and needless to say, even academics. By the time I was in my third year, I had over 20 backlogs and my life was spiraling downwards. My personal life was not doing too well either and I had hit the rock bottom.\\n\\nHaving realized that the only way from here was up, I decided to do something for myself. It was during this time that I locked myself into the room and studied until I couldn\\u2019t tell the difference between night and day and cleared my backlogs within a year. Upon graduating as an automobile engineer, I decided to pursue an MBA in Finance and successfully completed my post-graduation and received a placement in a finance company too.\\n\\nThrough all these ups and downs, akka, never left my side, she looked after me like I was her son. I got a job in sales after my MBA and decided to bring my younger sister, who lived with my parents in Bhimavaram to Hyderabad for better career opportunities. My sister and I rented an apartment and lived together. It was difficult leaving akka, who had done so much for me, but it was time I became an independent man.\\n\\nThe next few years of my life were a rollercoaster of a ride. At my first job, I was paid around Rs. 50K a month including incentives, which was way beyond what I expected. But unfortunately, I was fired for not reaching my sales target. At my second job too, I was fired for the same reason i.e. not being able to reach my sales target. I dabbled in sales, until early 2016, when I finally realised that it was not my cup of tea.\\n\\nPost that, I did a lot of research on what I could do.I tried to learn \\u201cC\\u201d language, and \\u201cBig data\\u201d but didn't find it interesting. I was very upset and wanted to express my pain. It was during this time that I stumbled upon something called \\u201cblogspot\\u201d. I realized that it was where I could write and express myself freely. Interestingly, it was on this platform that I wrote my first blog. Blogspot is owned by Google and that was where I learnt about blogging, SEO, freelancing too.\\n..."