About Me | My Introduction | My Story!
Almost four years back I started my career, though I wasn't serious about it but I was convinced and focused. At that time I just had no idea about How the internet works.
Those were the days when I was very new to the internet and just know the basic internet surfing. As mentioned earlier by me, I am an eager learner always hungry for gaining more and right knowledge from seniors and experts. Just to remind you people, I was 17 year old at time and was also completing my secondary education.
In our country Pakistan it's a trend that we as a student have to do what our parents like and of course those are the best grades in the class. I used to score more than 80% in those times and my parents were satisfied with my academic career, but when my mother see me sitting in front of Computer whole night she gets angry and sometimes I have to face punishments for that too.
Ah! that all was the other side of the story. One day I was surfing on internet and found that there are some data entry jobs available for those who can type and of Course I was pretty much amazed. I just grabbed the link and sorted out how it works and than started typing "Captcha's" , after completing thousand entries I was supposed to get paid but I wasn't. I than considered it's just a scam a fraud than I searched out and found the word freelancer and some freelancing websites on google. Freelancer.com was the first one mentioned there. I opened it and tried to search out what's going on in it but wasn't able to do so. I found a person there of the site, rather a freelancer. He was offering Logo Designing Services, I notified him that I am new and want to earn, May ALLAH ALMIGHTY Bless him. He was the first one to introduce to the path leading to the place where I am today.
He told me that he use a software Corel Draw for Designing Logos and told me that I can learn it from youtube videos. At that time it wasn't as such trendy as it's today. I thanked him for guidance and started researching about corel draw and logo designing.
I started learning the software and than I just used to design logo and submit that to the contest , though were the worse ones among others who often participate in the same contest. In the beginning it was disappointing to get rejected but something was there to keep on pushing me and backing me up.
After a continuous struggle of 1-2 years I was able to won the first ever contest on Freelancer.com and that was worth 70 Pounds.. It was like WOW!! You did it moment for me. I guess that was for "Snow down walks", a tourism organization. And after winning the contest the next step was how can I get these payments out of my system... And being sincere in seems to me more frustrating than winning the contest on freelancer. I spent almost a month but ended up with no clues and a self generated concept in mind that the money earned online can only be used for playing games and buying coins for those games online. I know it's seems weird when hearing such thing, but unfortunately that's true. I spent almost 30 Pounds in "Good Game Big Farm" and was feeling very proud.. :P
So that I found one of my senior on internet also uploading logo designs. I questioned him about the earned money and was shocked to hear that it is real money. Than he told me the method he gets the withdrawals in Local Currency. I did the same a received my first 10$ in Cash from an ATM and was super excited, that was the day I started trusting Internet and started believing that the money earned online is real.
Than I used to participate in the contests daily and was able to make 100$/Month from the contests. Being an person hungry for knowledge I did researched about how to grow my business and to my goodness I found a lot more ideas and started working on them too. I will explain every idea in my later articles.
Alhamdulillah By the grace of ALLAH ALMIGHTY and prayers of my parents I am now running a small online startup named
"IF Designerz"
It's an agency offering solution to all the design and branding problems of any company. We have expert designers, artists and illustrators in our team from all over the World.
Along with it I am doing my Graduation Degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am 21 Years of age, I am working on various freelancing websites and earning a Handsome Amount.
In the end I would say, It's only possible if you think it is possible. Stop getting disappointed ans start believing on yourself. If you liked my story Please Upvote to appreciated.
Thank you for reading. Stay Blessed
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