“I belong to a lower middle class family, so after my graduation, I said yes to the first job opportunity that came my way. The work was good but gradually things started changing when the workload kept increasing. I literally started to live for the weekends and reached a point where I couldn’t think of anything else apart from deadlines. I was exhausted. I did try online courses to better my approach at work but nothing helped until one day, my friend had enough of my cribbing and said, ‘If you’re not happy to work under someone, then why don’t you start something on your own?’ I gave it a thought for a while but I wasn’t sure what my future would be. One evening, however, I managed to convince myself and within a few weeks, I quit my job. I had a vague idea of venturing into a business with my friend but we didn’t know how to take it forward. We began meeting every day to discuss the options and after four months of brainstorming, we decided to open a theme based ice-cream parlour that offers customers a chance to have their own 3D-printed ice creams of different shapes. We were excited and felt that the idea had real potential but it was hard to keep working on something without proper investment. We worked on the back-end part and finally found an investor as our business partner. We had planned to launch our ice-cream parlour this year in the month of April but because of the COVID19 pandemic and nation-wide lockdown, we had to postpone our launch. Even though it was a major setback for us, right at the beginning, we are determined to take our concept forward soon!”

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