While growing up, I always had a knack for technology. Attending college was, indeed, quite an experience. Some students seem focused and clear in terms of their career path, while some explored college life for a few years before selecting the right career. Interestingly, I was the former type of student who knew from the very beginning that a career in business administration related field was what I really wanted, and subsequently attended the wonderful University of Wisconsin which had a beautiful campus and conducive learning environment. Nearing graduation year (1995), like many students, anxiety levels ran high especially during the on-campus recruitment phase where various organizations and recruiters put up kiosks in an effort to recruit the best brains. Sharing a synonymous thought process, the one thing that mattered the most at that time – to be able to work for a large corporation forever! Following that line of thought, and successfully going through the spiel of resume writing, interviewing, discussion, the perfect job was offered at the same financial institution where I had worked part-time during my undergraduate studies. I was about to work forever! Not for long as the first shock came within the first year of employment, when as part a restructuring effort, hundreds of employees were laid off. Unlucky me! As part and parcel of the layoff process, the employer offered several complimentary computer classes in Microsoft Windows 95 and various MS Office programs. The second shock came towards the end of the first training session, when I realized that along with the instructor, I was helping other students accomplish tasks. Moreover, by the end of training sessions, a decision had already been made to establish a computer consultancy and training company. The whole venture was self-funded with less than $2000, and unconditional support of my family. After two decades since graduation day, adding LLM, MBA, and PhD credentials blanketed with host of IT technical certifications, I now reckon to be a serial entrepreneur. We all have entrepreneurial spirit, and it simply needs to be discovered. We are all born with the innate ability to survive, and survival involves innovative thinking. Think about your life. Think about the times you needed to make a decision – a choice – that involved doing something innovative (something you were not accustomed to doing) so that you could “move on” or adapt to a challenging situation. In our normal course of daily living, we are faced with choices. Successful entrepreneurs have the tendency to create and add value for people at large. Bill Gates, who as an undergraduate at Harvard developed BASIC for the first microcomputer, went on to help found Microsoft in 1975. During the 1980s, IBM contracted with Gates to provide the operating system for its computers. Gates procured the software from another firm, essentially turning the thirty-dollar pair of jeans into a multibillion-dollar product. Microsoft’s Office and Windows operating software now run on about 90 percent of the world’s computers. In the end, here’s what you need to follow your dream – Five P’s of success: Five Ps of Success by Syed Raza: Copyright © All Rights Reserved. Sources: netmarketshare/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 Syed Raza: With over 20 years of combined experience in the fields Law, Management, and IT, Syed has impeccable reviewing and strong editing skills with a long track record of writing technical, legal, and management articles that make readers stop and think. Being a serial entrepreneur and attorney, he provides consultancy and project management in e-Discovery issues in complex civil litigation. He is the CEO of ClayDesk, an e-Discovery and cloud computing consultancy firm. He can be reached at ceo@claydesk.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:57:06 +0000
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