May 2024
Beginner
208 pages
3h 5m
English
by Ruchika Tulshyan
Ask me about my biggest career foible and I’ll usually respond with the clichéd “There are no regrets, only lessons.”
But that’s not entirely true. There will always be one career decision I made—one that altered the course of my life quite significantly—that I often come back to. Part “that was a terrible decision” and part “wow, I can’t believe I survived that.”
It was moving to Mumbai from New York in my early twenties.
If I back up a little, I’m not quite sure what sparked my decision to apply for an internship at a business news organization halfway across the world. I was a recent journalism school graduate in New York, interning at a well-known magazine, surrounded ...