Its been almost 2yrs since the last time I attempted to write a blog. I finally decided to take a break from writing captions for instagram posts to pen down my 10yrs journey as a Marketing professional. It won't be about what I achieved/learnt but instead a snippet of what stood out in each company I worked. This post is for posterity. I grew up wanting to be an air hostess to a choreographer to a person who 'makes ads'. I was obsessed with advertisements as a kid, guess that was my 1st clue. I knew every ad by heart, the emotions it brought when it lit up the screen. Yes, I even loved being early at movie theatres to catch glimpse of those ads that 'creates desires'. I took up MBA as a mean to escape the peer pressure of taking up contract IT job with a promise of moving abroad. I walked out of Wipro placement just before signing the contract. No regrets there! My 1st job: Campus placement, summoned to interview for a salon. I was a rank student wit
The mundane routine has taken over so much in life, I am struggling to keep up with the task list of things I usually did for self which could be listed as dancing, reading and writing (In the same order). However the below events were written for a friend who was involved in a project. The brief was to write 15 incidences describing our life . Here I am summing it up and blogging it for posterity. 1986: Born on Tuesday, termed as goddess of wealth by a member of family while the rest of the world frowned with disappointment of birth of a girl child instead of a boy to carry forward the family name. 1988: Welcoming a baby brother, fighting the jealousy for attention, experiencing the love of sibling & overwhelmed with the love of a joint family consisting of more than 15 people living under 1 roof unaware of what life has to throw up yet. 1991: An incident that killed the innocence in the child, expected to act adult when she would have rather preferred being gr