New Delhi : A 23-year-old software engineer from a small town in Northeast India has turned rejection into a career breakthrough. After facing more than 500 job rejections, he landed an OpenAI project that paid him Rs 20 lakh per month.
The first in his family to complete a BTech in Computer Science, started with a modest campus placement at Rs 3.6 lakh per annum. Instead of waiting, he applied to over 500-600 remote international jobs. Rejection after rejection for months, he recalled in a viral Reddit post. Out of all those applications, I got just one interview call—and somehow, I cleared it. That single break changed his life.
The project offered him Rs 20 lakh monthly—an unimaginable leap from his first placement package. He said he worked day and night, slept just 4–5 hours, and disconnected from everything else to give his best. Remote work proved to me that geography doesn’t matter if you have skills and internet access, he shared. The OpenAI project wrapped up in August, but the journey is far from over. At just 23, he is now building his own tech firm. His advice for students in small towns is direct: “Don’t settle for good enough. Apply everywhere, build in public, and network relentlessly.
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