I was lucky to have an uncle who was already working in SAP. He asked me to start working in the SAP field.
I wasn't sure what that even meant
He told me that SAP was a software that most fortune 500 companies used and it paid the big bucks.
He told me it was like an advanced excel and learning SAP was easy.
While I was working at the call center, I started learning SAP
One day, as I had been learning SAP, my boss called me to his office. The HR lady was also in his office and they told me that my time here was done and I was fired.
I was escorted to the elevator. As I walked passed the cubicles of my coworkers, I was actually quite happy.
I knew that I had built a skillset that was going to make me a lot of money. I was excited to know that I had to get a job in SAP now.
I started applying for jobs and after around two months, I got a job, and I was so excited I couldn't believe how much they were paying me.
I said, is this real? And I even took a picture after I withdrew money from the ATM. I was really, really happy.
I was like, wow, how much are they paying me? How am I getting paid so much?
It really changed my life from earning around seven hundred dollars a week, which would barely get my family by and me.
I was earning around 3000 dollars a week. I used to earn that much by working the entire month in the past. So from three thousand dollars a week, I was earning around twelve thousand five hundred a month and remember I was just a twenty one year old kid at that time. So within a year, I went from literally earning nothing in India to barely surviving in the US with three thousand a month to earning more than twelve thousand dollars a month.
So SAP had really transformed my life, you might be thinking, was it very complicated? No, not really. It did require a lot of hard work, but SAP wasn't that hard. It's just like a smart excel, pretty easy to pick up.
As I started working in SAP, things got really good for me. I was able to buy a car, buy gifts for my parents and I didn't have to worry about money.
I even started teaching SAP 6 months after getting a job in SAP. I spent months reading on forums and finally got the confidence that I was really good at SAP.