“First place is never for followers”
Sandeep Karri, a man who believes the first place is never for followers. He is a successful digital marketing trainer, influencer, Traveller, blogger, and businessman. It is not that he made it possible over a night. There is a lot of hard work and effort that he did consistently to achieve his goals one after one. Let’s take a look at his career journey.
Talking about his personal life, he was from Narsapur of Andhra Pradesh. He graduated from JNTUK with a mechanical background. He is from a very middle-class family and grew up with many dreams about his career. He gave up on many of his career dreams as his family couldn’t afford the academic fee. After his 10th, he wanted to be a doctor. After intermediate, he wanted to be a pilot or an Aeronautical Engineer. After BTech, he planned to go abroad but he didn’t, as he knew his family couldn’t afford it. But he never gave up. He kept adapting to the environment and started to move forward. He felt not trouble his family to fulfill his dreams and he never wanted to feel rich on other’s wealth. The solution he thought was to become financially independent first.
To make himself financially independent, he started his career as a BPO executive In ITAspects. On the other hand, with his trusted partner, they planned to start Spoken English and classical dance institute in 2016. But fate has a different plan for them. They both were cheated by the third partner. He realized that life is never a walk in the park. It took time for him to recover from the damage done. In the meanwhile, he started to do his grand work for his own business setup. He learned not to trust anyone so easily. Even he kept all his blood and bone to keep his dreams alive, but luck didn’t take his side. At the right time when he planned to start something, he met with an accident and had to take bed rest for 6 months in 2019. In 2020, covid came and buried all his hopes. During this period, he started losing his confidence. Every attempt he made got backfired. It didn’t take much time for his confidence levels to be buried completely. But his dreams kept his fire alive somewhere inside. There were days where he was depressed, mentally ill, and completely gave up trying. But in the game of life, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge and jump back in full throttle. This was an early break in his career. Once he realized what he has done by giving up trying, He felt that was the biggest mistake of his life and he was not being himself.
Later he took a small break in life just to recover. He came back with multiplied energy. He had a new plan for his career 2.0. He built himself very strong that not even he himself can pull him down. He planned short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals. He took an internship program with Digital Deepak for digital marketing. His continued learning and practice made him achieve his short-term goals. He got a job, started training his colleagues on the new ways and strategies of digital marketing. He enhanced his skills and started a new track as a part-time digital marketing trainer in 2024. His love for traveling and blogging was also shaped. He started his youtube channel in traveling. His unique way of traveling and trip planning made him successful in that field too. He never tried to get settled with his success. He always pushed his limits and went for that extra mile. Once he felt he was strong with the steps that he took, he quit his job and was setting new career goals.
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He started his own digital marketing agency by hiring few employees. He made investments in different sectors and started new businesses finding the market pulse. He learned from his initial mistakes and never kept all the eggs in the same basket. This made him achieve his mid-term goals. Once everything was set, he started to organize things and made a solid platform. He only worked on things that he was passionate about. This was the key to his success.
He tells his own story to make people understand that success doesn't come easily for any individual without continuous efforts. His journey through his life facing all the even and odds made many students and dreamers gain faith in continued efforts towards a career.
He believes in taking calculated risks, sustaining inner peace, and continues efforts in the key areas. The mantra he strongly believed was “First place is never for followers”.
