I’ve only had two jobs. I quit both. I just hated being in an office. It drained my soul. It left me bored and devoid of purpose.

I need to see my clients and work directly with those who pay me to keep my lights on. And being able to switch off the zoom calls or finish the coaching hour to go to the scrapyard, welding workshop or just sit and doodle a new idea at home or wherever is just absolute freedom. My coaching hours are fixed. But everything I do to be a better coach or build the gym are on my terms.

I enjoy being a dog with a bone. If there is no bone or i am done chewing, i roam around looking for a new bone to chew. I’ve always been that guy. I gave the honest employment and having a boss thing a shot. It just left me with a feeling of despair. I know lots of people love the 9-5 office thing. But I hated it.

In my second gig, we would have to coach and head to an office. I can confidently say that year was the worst year of my life. I would love to coach. But I’d be fried after. And then I would have to sit in an office for 4 hours for meetings and phone calls. It was absolutely f***ing miserable. I remember feeling empty, tired and sad for the rest of the day. It’s like being forced to think or do something with a gun to your head. Much like a school timetable. It’s math hour now kids. Switch on the math part of your brain. If that sounds like a terrible idea, it most certainly was.

But horrible experiences like that have been a trigger for some of my more enjoyable years.

2 years at the hellhole called St.Johns Besant Nagar were followed by 2 years of home-schooled bliss where I just read whatever I wanted.

3 years of an absolute shitshow called VIT was followed by a glorious drop year where I travelled and made my first pull up bar in 2008 before I went to ACJ.

And 2 years of coaching followed by sitting in an office lead to 11 years of whatever it is that I am doing now.

But there is only one thing I enjoy less that managing people, that is being managed by someone. It’s not the fault of the boss. Credit to my former boss Aarati Krishnan , she taught me a lot and was patient to a fault with me! As a slow learner, it took me a decade to put all the lessons she taught me to good use.

Some people are just miserable in institutions. I am one of them. I don’t blame the institutions. It’s just my head and how I operate.