Autorick­shawvum Entreprenurshipum

The crit­i­cal ingre­di­ent is get­ting off and doing some­thing. It’s as sim­ple as that. A lot of peo­ple have ideas, but there are few who decide to do some­thing about them now. Not tomor­row. Not next week. But today. The true entre­pre­neur is a doer, not a dreamer                 - Nolan Bush­nell.

On a cloudy day, I engaged an auto to reach Adyar. Unusu­ally, this dri­ver has agreed for a rea­son­able fare which I had in mind [ mine is Rs.10 per KM ]. Here is the inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion I had.

 ” Sir.. What is this huge building ?”

 ” It’s an IT park, where soft­ware com­pa­nies are located.”

 ” Do all the BE grad­u­ates work there?”

 ” Not all but the best of them. Top­pers basically. ”

 ” Hav­ing edu­ca­tion is always great, Sir.”

 ” True. [ To con­sole his pro­fes­sion ] not all grad­u­ates are doing well. A cab dri­ver earns more than an Engi­neer, I know.”

 ” No Sir.. The money doesn’t mat­ter. Money can be earned in many ways but the one earned through edu­ca­tion is the best and dignified.”

 ” May be.. What did you do initially? ”

 ” I did my +2 sir and had been to Singapore.”

 ” as what ?”

 ” Dri­ver, obvi­ously. I drive heavy vehi­cles too. Had a great time there in Sin­ga­pore for 4 years.”

 ” then why did you .. [ run an auto ?! ] come back here?”

 ” For mar­riage.. I belong from Orathanadu.. Do you know?”

 ” Yes.. I know that place.. Closer to Pattukottai.”

 ” Great! I bought a piece of land, built a house and also some agri­cul­ture land. I was into polit­i­cal work also.”

 ” Really! What do you do?”

 ” Assist­ing the coun­cilor.. We get good money in relief money or money dur­ing elections. :)”

 ” Good”

 ” Why you didn’t go back?”

 ” My cousin was about to sell his tiru­mala milk dis­tri­b­u­tion here in Chen­nai and I took over it by pay­ing him.”

 ” then ?”

 ” I get up at 4 AM and dis­trib­ute Tiru­mala milk to the areas adja­cent to Egmore and Cen­tral. After 10, I use this auto to roam around for rental trips and I return back to milk shop at 6.”

 ” Are u doing this alone? ”

 ” No sir.. My nephew is help­ing me. ”

 ” Kids ”

 ” yes..2 sons. They are study­ing in hometown.”

 ” What’s inter­est­ing about milk distribution ?”

 “Ha..ha.. You know sir.. It was 700 litres per day when I joined this busi­ness. I made it 1200 litres per day now. It was 70 paise per packet then and 1 Re now, as I crossed 1000 litres a day. The daily incen­tive is 1000+ per day.”

!!!

 ” You know.. I got some incen­tive award too from Tiru­mala com­pany. Tea shops pre­fer Tiru­mala than Aaavin, Sir. ”

 ” ok”

 ” In the evening, I sell a lit­tle amount of Aavin milk too. ”

 ” Mela..”

 “Busi­ness is doing good, sir.. Soon I’ll make my niece to take over the busi­ness and I’ll go back to Orathanadu sir.”

This is not about this person’s suc­cess in diverse fields and loca­tions. It’s the oppur­tu­ni­ties that he has tapped and used them, efficiently.

I remem­ber ask­ing one of my senior col­league an inter­est­ing ques­tion. He has enough edu­ca­tion, expe­ri­ence, knowl­edge and money to try out things in life. He is capa­ble by all means. So, I asked him about start­ing his own ven­ture. You know what he said

  ”  It’s unnec­es­sary risk, Boss !!”

:)

Toto.

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