Extraordinary Pakistanis: Find My Adventure
The author is a target of a James A Wechsler Award for International Reporting and a connoisseur of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He tweets @Mbilallakhani
Have we ever suspicion of quitting your cosy 9 to 5 pursuit and creation a vital off your passion? Does a fear of a different stop we from holding a leap? Does a fortitude of a monthly compensate check incarcerate your dreams instead of vouchsafing them free? This is a story about a immature adventurer, Komail Abbas Naqvi, 24, who’s taken a play of a lifetime by quitting his banking pursuit during a distinguished general bank. Throwing divided a protected though remunerative career trail for scaling plateau isn’t each LUMS graduate’s crater of tea though there are many lessons for other immature entrepreneurs in his journey.
“I started comparison year unequivocally relaxed,” Komail writes, in a post on LUMS Graduate Diaries. “I had been announced a President of a LUMS Adventure Society — LAS, we had successfully executed my unequivocally initial outing for my possess transport try after rejecting a flattering plain corporate internship offer. we had returned from a summer speed of Minglik Sar with not a caring in a world. But shortly afterwards, we found myself removing bogged down by a same worries that dark each senior’s mind: what will my post-graduation life demeanour like? Will it be a corporate job? Non-corporate? Entrepreneurial venture? Masters? we always knew we wanted to be an entrepreneur. But we found myself on a same bandwagon as everybody else, requesting for jobs that we knew we wasn’t unequivocally meddlesome in, only to fill in a ‘job’ checkbox. Fortunately (or unfortunately), we managed to land a pursuit in Standard Chartered Bank prolonged before graduation.”
“My family was thrilled. My friends were thrilled. Everyone around me was overjoyed that we was one of a initial people from a collection to get employed. But we wasn’t,” shares Komail. “I never saw myself as a 9-5 table pursuit kind of guy. But when everybody around we is fluttering pursuit acceptances, your prophesy tends to get blurred.”
“The suspicion of a fast pursuit and paycheque (almost) kept me from posterior my dream,” Komail shares, with a pointed certainty of a self-made male in a making. “I wanted to change a tourism attention in Pakistan. But after graduation, we assimilated Standard Chartered Bank as a Fast Track Graduate. While it was good to be a partial of a good bank and a good team, we always felt like something was missing. we was not meant to lay during a desk. we always felt that we was meant for something greater. So alongside SCB, we started operative on something greater. we started operative on my possess venture, that was bigger and improved than anything we had ever pursued. Many untiring days and bustling weekends later, we was means to launch Find My Adventure, that was what we was meant to do. Find My Adventure is my unequivocally possess brainchild. It is a initial of a kind transport portal in Pakistan, and is flourishing and expanding each day.”
“In 3 to 5 years, we wish to see Find My Adventure as a go-to height for any transport recommendation people need in Pakistan,” says Komail. When a height was launched, Komail and his co-founders were impressed by a response. “In a initial 48 hours, we had over 250 requests,” he shares. “We wanted to mount out for peculiarity use so we called each patron individually. We were operative 18 hour days, doing a day jobs in a morning and operative in a evenings. Within a initial 20 days, we realised that we were so bustling perplexing to conduct a day-to-day business volume that we didn’t have any room to consider strategically and grow. That’s when we suspicion about quitting my pursuit and entrance on full time. Since we had a lowest income among all a partners, it done clarity for me to quit. But convincing my relatives was a formidable task.”
“Even my brother, who is a partner in a business was ripped with his advice,” shares Komail. “My hermit told me that as a partner, we know we need someone to come in full time though as a hermit we won’t contend anything. He didn’t wish me to bewail this preference if things didn’t work out. we was on a fork of quitting my pursuit during a time and this was treacherous advice. we took a jump anyways.” It’s still early days though we’ll be examination Komail’s confidant new journey closely. Here’s to anticipating that Pakistan’s tourism attention will scale new heights with changemakers like Komail.
Extraordinary Pakistanis seeks to find and share inspirational stories about bland Pakistani heroes (if we know someone who should be profiled, send us a twitter @Mbilallakhani). If we don’t share these stories about Pakistan, no one else will.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
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