My best friend had provided me with a loan that would cover expenses for a month. I couldn’t thank him more and said I will return him when I can. He said “Whenever you can. Don’t worry”.

Not only money but, he also promised to give me a content writing job until I was engaged somewhere. He also said he will pay for the internet as soon as possible so that I can work from home and take care of my devastated wife at the same time .

INTERNET, LAPTOP AND CONTENT WRITING 

My buddy paid for the internet connection on the second day, logged me into some system I didn’t understand, showed me some samples of how and what to write and I had a job just like that. 

He was confident in me because I had done IELTS and used to watch English Movies a lot. But this content writing job was so easy and I needed money at that time. 

It wasn’t the big buck job at that time but it was a lifesaver for me. At least, my fear of letting my wife sleep empty stomach was gone. I believe that I never prayed with tears in my eyes before. 

I would apply for different interviews for local jobs and even visit foreign employment agencies for any shitty job with burrowed shoes.

I also took some paid training hoping to get placement afterwards but to no avail.  And wrote content for a couple of hours when I was home. It was sufficient to stay alive but wasn’t enough. I used to get scared, what if my wife gets sick or if some unfortunate event would strike upon us. 

I was also scared to death that my relationship with my wife will turn sour due to surmounting pressure from the situation. I even thought she would leave me because of this situation. Now, I realized that I was wrong, I had a strong partner that everybody wished for.  

Beside this, living and giving a good life to my wife was now far from over at this moment. 

The dream of going and studying abroad and living up to my potential was shattered. Writing content was my only choice but not interest at that time. 

I was around Rs One Lakh in debt while settling my most basic requirements and room rent. Plus the debt was increasing continuously and with the debt, tensions too.

I was not getting any job and most of my time was consumed by taking suggestions from people on what to do next in my situation and looking for a job. 

I would manage to write some content just enough to live.

More Than Broken

Now, after three months of continuous job surfing, worthless training, giving many interviews and succeeding in none, I was hopeless. 

In three months, I realized that I need at least Rs. Three Lakhs in hand just to begin with and I needed the job that pays me more than Rs Twenty Thousand - and it was calculated. 

First thing was that, without a two wheeler, I couldn’t be in the places I needed to be in time. Also, I needed a good salary because moving around, it required a minimum of Rs 150/- per day even if I chose to spend money wisely. 

The only relief in all that misery was that my wife got the job placement  as a Receptionist at one of the Foreign Employer Agencies. It wasn’t much, was her probation period, and you know how it goes. 

Her salary would go to my landlord to pay rent  and my content writing job from home spending two hours everyday would buy us food for living

There was no weekend or even monthly celebrations for us. Upcoming festivals, birthdays or any functions would hurt me the most. Thoughts like, will I die this way and not seeing the way out was killing me.

The Only Place I Fit In

After all the failed attempts to get my life on track and after deciding that I am the unluckiest person in the whole damn town, I gave up looking for jobs and decided to stay home. Maybe I was just tired, but I decided I am not getting any job anytime soon.

I was then the ultimate loser, sitting at home just watching series all day long, thanks to the internet. But as it is said “Blessing in Disguise”, the puzzled and frustrated me got some time to think because it was the only time in months that I was not chasing anything.

Then one thing struck my mind. I was giving around two hours time for content writing and making enough to feed two of us. Why won’t I give 8-10 hours and quadruple my income? 

This thought didn’t hit me before because I never took the potential of content writing seriously. And I was only after jobs that would change my life dramatically. 

I called my bestie again who in the first place gave me that job and asked him “How much can I make if I gave full time in content writing?”. 

His reply was “It will be good.” My money-hungry mind at that time (Of course due to the crisis I was in) let me ask again “How Much?”. I needed numbers. He replied “As much as you can”.

At the end of this interesting conversation, he said “Visit the office once, I will make things clearer for you”. 

The next day, I visited him at the office. The earlier conversation we had on the phone about “Making Money as Much As You Can” was real. That literally doesn’t mean Billions of dollars, but yeah, could make lot’s of it. 

I asked him, getting a little bit frisky, why wouldn’t you tell me this months ago. To that, he said that I was not showing much interest towards writing and he didn’t want to put pressure on me because I was desperately looking for another kind of job. 

He was right. My frustration wouldn’t let me understand even if he had told me all this. I was running for something else. 

I called him a few days later and said “I need to understand more of this”. I already knew he wouldn’t deny me. He said, I will talk with the founder Mr. Sanjeet Acharya about letting you in for the week as intern/job whatever you want to call it. If you are really interested and prove your worth, maybe you can work with us.

More to my surprise, he convinced Mr. Sanjeet to pay me a minimum of Rs 12,000/- if I was staying there full-time.

I was so happy that he vouched for me.

I went to Change Schooling, all excited and nervous both because I had to show my game and wouldn’t let my friend down too. There were young people working already and most of them were working part-time just like I used to.

And about the thing my friend said “If you are interested and Proving Myself” thing, there was not much to prove because the work was a no brainer. I was just putting information in the correct order. An eighth grader would do that. 

There were few technical things, and I don’t mean “TECHNICAL-TECHNICAL”. I had to learn simple skills like adjusting the size of pictures, few research techniques  and managing content on CMS we were using at that time. That was it and was ready to roll.

Finally, understanding why I was writing certain types of content in a certain way made me an instant wizard. I was only writing the content that people want to read.

My Own Project Within a Month

Within a month of getting trained/job, whatever I may say, I understood the big picture here and I was ready to launch something of my own with the benefit of direct consultation with all my mentors.

I was a content creator and researcher and Change Schooling provided me all the tools. This was a dream come true for me at that time because I can work according to my idea, my style and at my time. What else would I need?

CS let me keep 60% of all the revenue generated and 40% was for all the supporting tools, website design, registration,  paid tools and few other technical help I required. The 60% that was for me was about Rs 45,000 - Rs 55,000/-, depending on revenue generated but never less.

I had tripled my income in just three months. Now, I wanted to work alone because I targeted to make more than Rs 70,000/month.

The Day CS Let Me Go

I talked with the office, that I wanted to work alone. Everybody understood that my motive was to grab more money in my pocket and they were okay because I was kind of their first trainee.

I still work with them for about a month after talking and finally it was official. I was also allowed to take the project I was already working on but had to pay 40% for 6 months as royalty and I was more than okay because I don’t have to do it from scratch.

As I have to pay royalties for a few months, to generate more income I had to start a new project one way or another. So, I began.

Now, as you knew at this point, I was a confident content writer.

But my problem began immediately since I was doing it alone. I will tell you why it became difficult for me. I will just tell you in points:-

• What Name Should I choose?
• How and where to buy a domain name?
• Which content management system to choose?
• What design would be better for me?
• How to build a system that fits me?
• How to set up server?
• How to do proper SEO?
• What Kind of Social Media Strategy will work best for my idea?

The list goes on.

I realized, If i had to do all these, it would cost me a fortune before I even started. Website designers were so expensive and Digital Marketers too.

Finally, I made a plan but it would take me 6 months just to start. I had no other way than to wait.  I needed help more than ever now because I was working alone.

Back To Change Schooling With The Intent of Learning More

My relationship with the ChangeSchooling Management Team and the  colleagues  there was profoundly good.

Again I got a second Opportunity to come back to Team after I was called for a short 30 mins meeting with the Management Team.

In the meeting, without any hesitation I put forward all the problems that I was facing working alone. It was no surprise that they were all very supportive and helpful to me. They always were.

The conclusion of the meeting was that they would teach me all the dynamics of Digital Marketing & Writing. But it would require some time to understand the flow and I had to keep my patience until I would understand the business model.

Till then we agreed to keep our earlier settlement and I was working full-time and learning all the technical stuff that is required for any writer to succeed in the digital era.

This was also not that hard for me.

Within a month I had built my own website, selected the  right server, and I was mentored in such a way that I could solve  all those problems with my own hands without having to pay the Web developers huge amounts of Money.

It was very simple and I saved a fortune for myself because all the labor cost that I had to pay web developer and designer was beyond my pockets. 

That day, I became a true entrepreneur. A man who clearly knew what I was doing and had a vision for my work and for myself too.

Living a Life Now

Since 2016 I have worked in many different projects independently and few with Change Schooling too. I have successfully created my own team and my own office. 

I am generating more than $5000 and saving myself around $1,500 after all expenses of my office.

Doing Content Writing work was not hard. There are times you have to change your strategy which is the nature of every business.

The biggest success for me was in 2020 when the whole world was shut down by COVID-19 Pandemic.

I had unknowingly chosen a pandemic-proof career. That’s why I thanked my parents a lot earlier and my buddy Yujesh because it wouldn’t have been possible without them. Because of them I have mastered the career with huge potential.  

My business was not hurt a bit except for a fact that I had to pay office rent when nobody was using it. But work was as efficient as ever because all my team could work from home as they used to work in the office.

In 2020, when the whole world was in chaos, all my problems were solved. I had saved pretty well till this point. 

This year, I called my parents and asked to resolve all the problems that we had earlier and live together as a family. I went back home with my wife and did a pretty amazing job with the renovation of our flat. We also added a few luxury items for better living including a small hatchback car.