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My Unemployment Calling Card

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It is amazing how lack of resources and desire (or need) to achieve something can make one think differently. I was unemployed ..umm .. vocationally challenged ... for 3 years during the dot com bust times and so here is the card I got printed for myself to "network" better.

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It was .. is .. always work getting my name - Mrinal - through. I also learnt to turn off spelling suggestions in Microsoft Word.

So instead of getting myself a new name, I decided to leverage the problem i.e the name I was born with. It turned out to be very successful because:

  1. It was interactive (I always carried a pen with me when I went to events to network and would make the other person write my first name down and fill in the blank)
  2. My card was always the most different
  3. It had a great recall factor for the follow up email
  4. They never forgot how to spell my name
  5. It always led to a discussion around the name - where does the name come from? Does it mean anything? Why didnt you change it? etc.

Now at a coffee shop, before the caffeine and mentally incapicitated, I go by my 'name of the month'. Little did I realize, this does comes with a huge responsibility of actually responding to the name call.

Now I am even more inspired since the anagram for my last name, Desai, is Ideas.

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