Walking a Different Path

In year 2012: As usual, everyone in the office is busy responding to the emails, while some are reading their favourite novels, comics through the company’s laptops and the other are chatting through the instant messengers.

I have just done attended another endless manufacturing quality issues meeting with the teams and I finally able get back to my cubical. A ton of tasks is piling up ahead and waiting for me to clear it up.

As I am just about to sip my favourite Nescafe coffee leftover on the desk this early morning, my colleague who just done watched a Youtube video update me what he had watched in the office.

Then I see the other colleagues at the corner side are discussing where to have the lunch later and some even planning for the night activities.

That time I was wondering why don’t they just focus on their tasks get it done fast but instead hanging around in the office and be unproductive employees inside the office.

After several months working in this company and learned few new friends over here, I am getting closer to them and we talked. From our conversation, I found out some of them told me that the company paid them low pay, that why they are demotivated to be productive. Half of them don’t give their 100% effort in the jobs.

Things still the same after several years. Later on, I was promoted to next level of engineer position. I got an increment for the promotion but the increment barely competes against the inflation of the market. I hardly save any money for my own future, not to mention to move to next level of lifestyle or start a family.

I began wondering if this is the right path that I should be following. I want to have higher pay job where it is sufficient for me to start a family and living the comfortable life. I want to support my parents effortlessly and have sufficient emergency funds as well as enough fund to travel comfortable with friends.

The Journey Began

6 years back, in July 2012 I have taken a different path where fewer people are walking. I’ve begun to start my own auto website business and work a lot on the internet marketing. Time and money are heavily invested in this field.

While my colleagues and friends are enjoying every weekend watching movies, hanging out, get drunk but I am staying at my room to work for my GOALS. There is countless of times where I am tired and wanted to give up, but the desire of wanted to get out from employment life is so strong and eventually keep me continue.

I am still working on my website after my day job and also during the weekend until today. I don’t know whether am I going to successfully to achieve my desire lifestyle but there is one’s thing for sure that is I know I won’t regret in my life later on because this is the best I could have done at the moment.

Fast forward in Nov 2018, I successfully launched by startup using the same domain name as Car RC, and working full force on it. I am working with several automotive business associations and insurance companies as well.

My startup even recognised by various high authority organisations as such as Futurelab, Acat, Autobuzz, Aurizn, Paul Tan, Peugeot, CloudHAX, etc…

I was invited to award recognition from Exabytes that will be held on 2019, and featured as mentor in Futurelab, and invited by various startups from Singapore like Carmen, Neurons to work with me.

Throughout the entire 6 years of hard work especially if you have full time job to judge on the same time, and working on the sub-projects during the night and weekend is never easy. If I don’t passionate on startup & automotive, and I don’t believe in my ideas and myself, I would have given up during earlier day.

Hustling alone when everyone is out there partying or watching movies, playing DOTA during the OFF days is LONELY. This is facts, and nothing glamorous about it.

Reflecting back, I am glad I continue to pursue what I am believing until today. These POSITIVE results would not appear if we have give up early.

The lesson that I’ve learned along the journey, is keep working it out and stay focus on your goals. Along the ways, you will get a lot of REJECTIONS, HATE, LONELINESS, and STRESS.

Take a break in between for rejuvenate and keep WORKING and PIVOT the process along the ways!

The ugly TRUTH: you may achieve your GOALS or you may FAILS during your hustling days, but you definitely won’t die REGRET.

Often if you asked the elderly who are dying soon and what are their wishes, they would tell you they wished to do the things that they NEVER did during the younger days.