Mundra: Earning side income matching your salary enables fearless career decisions
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Manish Mundra, film producer and former petrochemical executive, explains how building supplemental income enabled him to take calculated risks in corporate roles.
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“And when you get a job, when you earn, let's say, 10,020 1030 1040 thousand rupees as your starting salary, you work hard to create another additional income of 30, 40,000, which is equivalent to your salary. You have so much courage in you that you don't care about the job, but you care about the result. And that helps you to take so important decisions, so good a decision as an entrepreneur, that you grow in your job, and you also grow in terms of income, and that helped me a lot, having that courage to take decisions and look at that job as an entrepreneur, and not as somebody who's nine to five job or something, because I was not very cared about losing my job, because I knew I have supporting income to support me, and that made me very courageous in terms of taking decisions.”
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