Guitar, Blogging and Copywriting: An Intro To Quarter Life Crisis and Strategic Unemployment

What am I doing with my life!?

Was the question I asked myself exactly 3 months ago when I still had a job and was working as a software engineer. Building scalable backend services to accommodate millions of requests for a fast growing startup seems fun from the outside (and it sometimes is) . But software engineering as a whole can be pretty boring if you are a junior engineer.

While senior engineers and architects talk about design and architecture and solve cool problems, as a junior engineer you mostly get handed a blueprint and you just follow it, and often, it becomes kinda repetitive and kinda boring. So what do you do?

Well, my brilliant solution was to leave the software domain and pursue something more creative - somewhere I get to learn new things and do new stuff and solve new problems that have an impact.

So, what did I come up with? Nothing. At least for the first 2 months.

It was 2 months of Travelling, Guitar, Puzzles, Rubik's cube and a lot of thinking before I made up my mind: I wanted to move into operations or marketing.

A little about myself: I'm a computer science graduate with a year of experience working as a software engineer who got obsessed with programming in 8th grade and soon after that, the idea of building a business of my own got stuck in my head. I remember looking at google and thinking "I will build something like this one day" (I still believe I can. Dumb, young energy. I know).

During my college years I got time and freedom to pursue exactly that and I went crazy with it. Not knowing where or how to start, I made about every mistake one can make. Having gone through 2 spectacular (major) fails in college and 1 after, I still am crazy about building something that solves a real problem and makes life easier for a whole lot of people.

So, that brings me to operations and marketing. Having an Operations role could teach me about how to run a company. Marketing role could teach me how to put my product or service in front of people. I wish there was a role that had both the components, but I think I'll be happy with either as long as I get to learn and do new things.

This is when I started my copywriting journey. Being a self-taught software engineer, I set out with copywriting the same way: reading blogs, watching Youtube, writing terrible copy and consuming way too much caffeine. Although caffeine wasn't technically part of the learning process, I just fell in love with Vietnamese Cold coffee on Zepto Cafe. Its amazing that we live in an age where I can get food delivered in 10 mins.

Long ago, my WhatsApp status said: "I won't be impressed with technology until I can download food off the internet". And honestly, this is pretty close to that dream.

Sure, there are some 3D printers which can print edible food remotely, which is actually impressive. But I bet they can't make chicken biriyani as good (or as fast) as I can get f rom quick commerce apps.

Coming back from that biriyani diversion, This is the start of my blogging journey. I'll be posting about random things that interest me enough to write about - mostly about tech, business or marketing. Maybe some stories about my encounters with things around me, or anything in the world that fascinates me enough to put into words.

That being said, This is my version of Diary Of A CEO. In the delightful words of Steven Bartlett, "I hope no one is reading this, but if you are, please keep it to yourself". Thanks for reading.