I started a one-person business alongside my day job
<p>Scrolling on social media changed my life.</p>
<p>1 year ago I was living the most common graduate life. I had just completed my engineering degree and was walking to a good 5 figure day job. I would come home, eat dinner, binge-watch Netflix, and go to sleep.</p>
<p>Isn’t that what life should’ve been about? I thought I owed it to myself. For studying so hard, I deserve all the rest I was getting. But it was simply mediocrity in disguise.</p>
<p>While scrolling Instagram one day I read a quote:</p>
<h1>You can either sacrifice your comfort or sacrifice your dream.</h1>
<p>That quote hit harder as it was roughly 1:42 AM, with the entire street asleep. It made me think about who I actually was before I started my job.</p>
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<li>I was a college-level badminton player who loved to exercise.</li>
<li>I was an entrepreneur who had just bootstrapped a startup at the age of 20</li>
<li>I was a published author by 21</li>
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<p>And, I forgot it all in the name of comfort when I started my 9–5. It was time to get back up and do the thing I was best at — creating.</p>
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