How did you end up in the career that you are in?

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Re: How did you end up in the career that you are in?

@Khalil KhaaN FaaKhta

**its a lonnnnng story. to make it short, i had an unusual and unique start. i lived in a village until age 14. never lived in a city b4. i also never went to school. my dad and big bro wud teach home school me may be a couple of hours on a couple of days in a week. irony is my dad was a principle in a village high school. my dad knew that schools in villages at that time were teaching nothing and the kids learned bad things instead. so, when my big bro got a teaching job at AligaRh Muslim University only then i moved to the city with him.

i studied well and got accepted in med school. the same year my big bro who i was living with moved to the US to do his PhD and as a result i moved into the university’s residence. i had no elder watching over me and on top of that my bro sent me my lavish monthly stipened in US dollars * so i dropped my crystal bowl. at the end of my first year in med school i was kicked out coz my attendance fell way short [35% as opposed to min required 75%] i skipped classes, watched too many movies and hung out with friends 24/7.

after that life was a living hell. so metophorically speaking, every1 effectively condemned me to die so i contemplated suicide but thanx to Allah i found solace in namaz and became a good boy. left everything. unwillingly i saought admission in BSc with major in Botany. finished my BSc then my bro helped me immigrate to Canada and i went to university right away. i met this lady who was very kind to me and became my supervisor and under her i finished my MSc and PhD in Horticulture and then she gave me a job as piost doc researcher.

we went to New Zealand lastin January, 2010 and we worked there together until a horrible thing happened. she got diagonosed with cancer and we had to return to canada 2 months prematurely in november. she is undergoing treatment and hence took off from work for three months and as a result i’m laid off for that period of time. inshaa Allah, i’ll be back to work in Feb.

thats how i ended up in my profession and thanks Allah it turned out that way. i was a lost soul when i hit my rock bottom.

plz pray for Susan, my supervisor. May Allah cure her cancer and give her full recovery…aameen**

So you are a botanist! I dreamed to become a taxonomist but now I am an accountant!*