Hello everyone,
I am Aveem Ashfaq. Born 24th August 1993 in a town in Telangana. I was quite a cutsy little boy with a fanclub around me. That's me and my elder brother. The one in the right is me.
I was equally good in studies and good behaviour. Me and my brother were in the poshest of the schools and spoke to each other in english as kids. Our father bought a M800 in 1995 and was the first one in town and the only one for a long time. Heck, even my parents had legendary history. I was bought up in a very conservative environment with excellent manners.
Things went horribly wrong from there. My father put investment in the share market and it turned sour. HE helped the entire family tree on both sides, paid for marriages, helping all the kids get on their feet with businesses or studies and all these commitments meant he bled cash. He was a Development officer in United India Insurance as a field officer. And he was a honest man and did not do the market gimmicks in earning customers making a tough time at work. He shifted to Administrative side which meant taking a lower post and getting a transfer. He tried doing up and down for 8 months and ran out of reserves. And then we took the pill and shifted family into tight situations. Only God knows how he had all the will power to keep going on. But it also played it's downside that he became courageless. (This is not for gaining sympathies but just fact of life)
It was still uphill for me and I performed exceptionally well in studies with 91% in 10th and a whopping 96.8% (making me state 24th ranker) in 12th and a commendable rank in AIEEE. And admission into NIT Nagpur in Mechanical engg (called VNIT Nagpur) in first attempt itself (which is amongst the top colleges in India). It is stupid of me because rather than prioritizing on college rank basis, we went on distance wise and ended up there.
I told you that I am from a conservative family, so conservative in fact that even at 22 years, when we go shopping and I like a dress, if my father does not put up a happy expression with the dress i am showing him, i discard it. And in NIT, I had complete freedom and all around me were more independent students who did all sorts of crazy stuff without telling their parents. I was getting spoilt.
That is me on my very first secret wild outing which I did not tell my parents about. They probably would still kill me if they know about this. I was still in good company because I was still a good sport and took part in college events and won a lot of reputation.
But at the end of the year, I thought to myself, this is not how rogue I should be and decided to resurrect the old rules. So, I changed room
![Frustration](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/Frustration.gif)
for people with less 'rogueness'. As it turned out to be, it was the worst decision of my life. My new roomies were a bunch of fantasizing baffoons who always spoke of girls and portrayed to me that the ultimate goal is not getting a fat paycheck but the best girl in town. All of living with them, glorifying stupid things, me running away from their topics that I no longer lived in my room, my stubbornness to not meet my old friends, all the college events, seniors advice that college placements do not depend on pointer but on how good you can present yourself in the interview and consequently focussing on soft skills blah blah blah I screwed up a semester and failed all the subjects.
The worst part is that I entered 4th semester with no clue what I read before. And due to peculiar rules of our college, i had to forfeit 5th sem and read 3rd sem instead. And then it was 6th sem. Lacking the continuation, my studies were so screwed up, they were the most miserable days of my life.
A complete brainwash. Later on because there would not be any campus placements for me and so i focussed on other stuff and skills that make up a good resume. All of them done DIY. Trust me when I say this, I can still talk and keep up with anyone on any topic at any level of complexity. I learnt a lot of linux, a bit of arduino programming and other microchip programming, Java, image processing, practical mechanical engineering in designing things, doing software simulations and analysis, a bit of arabic and the quran, good oratorship and endless more. But none of them conventionally and I have absolutely no certificates to show to anyone. Except there is one coming soon. I have just finished writing a book and am yet to publish. Let me attach a trailer.
story.pdf
Somehow, I graduated with 58.8% which makes me ineligible for almost all fields of importance. I mean, I got admission in NIT Warangal and during the final stage of certificate verification to get an admission into M.Tech Research, they rejected because I had less than 60%.
Private jobs, the ones that even bothered to look at me were IT companies. My dad told me that I was only to get a govt job, that too non inspector, justice, corporation type which means no IAS or Municipal Corporations etc. After a lot of searching and a year of fighting with parents that no one wants me and I have to make my own way up crawling in the low salaried private jobs, a light appeared. Railways. It is ironic because now, I have only one place to go, i.e. railways, and it is the best PSU you can get into with it's facilities.
Gave it in 2015 with no clue about anything. Has the most tough exam where all streams of engg, all sciences and social from class 1 to 10, general awareness and thorough knowledge of constitution of india is asked. Gave it unprepared and got AIR 1115. Narrowly missed placement. Preparing this time. Lets see how it turns out.
P.S. I am no longer the fair and handsome and gained quite a bit of weight and lost quite a bit of hair. I am 5'10'' and weigh 100 kgs.
Thats me at the graduation ceremony and by the way, the president of india came to my convocation.
Summary: Flung hard into the sky and came down crashing to the ground, injured but getting ready to fly again.