Job experiences teach you many things beyond polishing your skill-sets. These learnings tend to be your guidelines for the coming times in personal and professional life.
The ‘My First Job’ captures this essence from the industry leaders. Here is an account from Kunwer Sachdev, Founder & Managing Director, Su-Kam Power:

‘My First Job’ was:
I started off by selling pens to support my elder brother’s business when I was in school. Due to a fallout with my brother, I joined a telecommunication company and worked there for a few months before starting on my own cable TV installation business and later got into manufacturing of cable TV equipment like amplifiers and CATV, MATV.

While I was doing reasonable well in the industry I happened to come across inverter industry that was homegrown at that time and a repeatedly malfunctioning inverter instigated me to try my hand at inverter manufacturing and by 2000 I had quit cable TV manufacturing completely and taken the plunge in inverter industry.

My experience:
My 19-year journey as an entrepreneur has been full of ups and downs. For example: there was times when I tried to copy Canadian inverters for Indian market and made a few pieces, they failed miserably and I had to undergo loss, but I never gave up hope and kept nourishing my dreams despite the hurdles. I learnt that everyday might not be sunny; everyday I might not see success. But my products have received an overwhelming response that makes my experience nerve wrecking in both good and bad ways.

Things I learnt:
I learnt everything that entails running a business, manufacturing equipments and research and development, since the business grew from a small team of 4 to its current size, I’ve had to do all the jobs that are a part of running the business this has given me an advantage of knowing all the jobs.

Skills I Acquired:
A very important skill is to be able to align the whole group as a team towards one objective. This is one of the most important skills I learnt to drive people to achieve the organizational goals.

My Manager’s Teaching:
Being an entrepreneur, I never had a manager which in a way was beneficial for me. I learnt to take footsteps on my own, have faith in my abilities and try to develop the skills that I lacked.

My Journey So Far:
My journey has been full of steep ups and downs and I am grateful for the downs as well since they taught me more than the ups.