The Joy of the First Salary
Yoga and Total Health|August 2024
Starting the journey towards self-reliance and success
Shri TS Karthik
The Joy of the First Salary

First love or first job are 'things nobody can forget. I received Rs.1600 hard cash as my first salary for a market survey job I did in the sweltering heat of Chennai, about 25 years back for a world famous soft drink company. A team of ten was assigned different areas and on our bikes, we were off, sometimes in pairs singing "Yeh dosti hum nahi todenge," to do a study called merchandising barometer which was nothing but checking whether shops were using the merchandising material properly, whether they kept only colas in the coolers given by the companies and checking the visibility of products/competitor's products, which was kept first?

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