To everyone hating their first corporate job: I did too, and I let it make me bitter for a while. Big mistake. Learn the systems, take the free training, then leave when you're ready. Woh boring job mera business school ban gaya.

Took a solo train to Mussoorie when the business nearly broke me. Sat in a dhaba, drank someone else's chai for a change, and came back with a new packaging idea. Sometimes stepping away from the problem is the actual work.

Left a 14 LPA job for a business that paid me nothing for a year. My cousin still thinks I lost my mind. Truthfully some months I agree with him. But I answer to a stove now, not a manager, and that trade felt worth it.

Genuinely my whole menu is stolen from thela uncles across UP. Kanpur ka masala, Lucknow ki cutting, Banaras ka kulhad. My 'innovation' is just respecting what already works and keeping it clean. Street food is the real R&D lab.

Month one: sold 11 cups of chai and lost 8000 rupees. Month nine: we run three kitchens. Nobody tells you the middle part is just you crying in a warehouse at 2am recounting cups. If you're in that middle right now, keep counting, it turns.