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InspireME: Being Dangerous is the new code — to survive.
Interesting times call for change and this can be painful. Lucky are the ones who embrace it and look ahead. Here’s Waleed Imtiaz Mirza:
Life’s best motivation is your biggest failure. And more failures.
The year was 2012 and the Dubai market was uncertain post-recession. People who once had prestigious titles had fled the scene. Business tanked, and uncertainty prevailed.
In this shaky scenario — I was affected and under-skilled. I thought SAP that I was a consultant, would be job-loss resistant. But sand castles await the next tide or the next whiff of the breeze to be swept away.
I exit. Restarted my life, again.
Pivoted or call it a diversion — but moved away from my area of skillset.
Started as a content writer. Yes, I was earning $5000/month with SAP but lost that. Content writing was too naïve.
It opened me to a world of immense possibilities, Digital Marketing. Not everyone is equipped to understand how customers want to be felt with content.
Learned digital marketing, and content development, and built businesses along the way. Polished my content research toolset skills; a skill…
