Left Electrical Engineering
2025-07-11
On the beach: 5 years before once my teacher asked, Prashant what will you pursue after 10th? I confidently replied, Diploma in Electrical Engineering without knowing even 1% of it's complexity. I got decent marks but the competition was too high for the core electrical due to which I couldn't get into one of the top gov college GP Mumbai.
In electrical due to limited seats, in exchange I was receiving electronics and IT which I was not much interested in, so at the age of 16 I got enough courage to go out of my city 600km far in Nagpur where I was getting admission. Then locked down happen and the excitement I had for the college just stayed in the google meet and whatsapp group.
Then post 1.5 years the college Got into polytechnic was always an over excited kid, utilised all time I had for everything I could do at that time getting adcanced NPTEL courses, explainig a topic to whole batch, arguing with professors for inaccuracies, trying out iot projects, MATLAB simulation, computer aided designs, resquesting industries for training and practcial projects that I could think of.
But then I got a cute friend introduced to afterwhich the effort and attention subconsciously started splitting, the over excitement I had started diminishing and the fear of getting judged started emerging. Then even after being in few top performers, I was never felt confident enough of doing something great in electrical after 4th semester espescially after the so called Internships period....
Because I alwasy aspire to build products but none of them are even talking abt building anything which is again maybe not the fault of that situation because the curriculum is designed to produce skilled workers and which even maximum course takers also expected, which is placements. And the relation didn't worked out after 6-7 months of time spent, and still I agree the fault was mine.
So after loosing the interest in college I started doing all rad stuff, doing online specialization in IOT from Illinois University to developing basic flutter apps for clients, and video editing, designing, getting IIT Incubated startups to provide training in rural college. And organizing micro events and teaching coding locally had done it all, in less than span of 1 year. Cracked paper 1 ssc je.
Got one of the best job offer from LnT at age of 19. But because of the rad stuff I did in last year which is ofcourse by bunking most of the classes.
I got offers from big creators once I dreamed of working but being the engineering mindset person not wanted to to switch everything so soon, so left the LnT job started online degree in IIT Madras which wasn't easy for diploma student to crack at one go, then started working on the product I wanted to build because of lack of finance I chose for what I skill I have and what's freely available so started foodaspas, Instead of hardware products I would like to work on, because what I had understood at that time is gain trust of people around you with doing simple thing then after gaining enough resources go for higher risky stuff, like what elon musk did starting with games, then paypal then spacetech, similarly deepinder goyal zomato then spactech.
Then With the days passed no revenue degree also started getting tougher, savings vanishing away I had start to a job applied for remote software role in EV SAAS company and got into it and it's been a year working on it which gave me freedom and flexibility to work on things I would love to work During that to avoid distraction I paused all the side projects and strated travelling extnesively with the work and travelled more than 20 states of India and counting.
Still I have the ambition to build bigger and will be starting on it very soon.