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Trust the process!
In August of 2012, I entered a prestigious Indian university, BITS Pilani. Like 806 other kids of my batch, I too was bright eyed, optimistic and excited! As a Freshman, one of my major goals was to get a “Verti” (short for Vertical transfer, a transfer to a different branch) to Computer science. I worked hard, very hard! After a year of ignoring everything other than my studies, I failed to get a “Verti”.
Fast forward to 2018, I wanted to move to USA because I believed that my career prospects were better there. At the time, I thought that an MBA was my ticket there. I applied to numerous schools - from the business hubs of the East coast to the tech hubs of the West! Unfortunately for me, my profile at the time wasn’t good enough. The best I could get was a Waitlist from one university, which eventually turned into a reject.
The intent of the two instances above is not to whine, but frankly to do quite the opposite. As I write this post, I am seated happily in my room in the heart of the Bay, San Jose. I am gearing up for an amazing week ahead at a software engineering job that I always dreamed of!
When I failed to get that “Verti” I contemplated a lot on choosing a different career path, on giving up on my professional dreams. But little did I know that a career in software engineering did not require a degree in Computer science. In fact, my interest in…
