After months of hard work, today for the first time I felt we are on the right track. We have our site online for users to register. It may not be much but it is a huge moral boost. A moral boost is Oxygen to a man dying of hypoxia. For me, it could not have come at a better time. But there is a long way to go. I am realising that the road ahead is 100 times longer than the distance covered so far. This is a fact that can be discouraging at times. This is where the moral boost sweeps in and gives you a shot of adrenaline.
I have been studying for my PhD for the past 4 years; time travels very slow when you are trying to code and debug 16 equations that describe highly complex physical models ( for anyone interested, high Mach number chemically reacting flows using Navier stokes equations and very high order numerical methods). The whole time alone, trapped in an office, day in day out looking at a computer screen, sitting in one place. I did not wish to spend the rest of my life this way. So I changed my field completely and got involved in a start-up.
When I tell people what I did, or what I have done, the response is almost always identical; "Dude! you have a PhD, find a job... Its too risky.....". I agree it’s risky. I agree that I do not know how or where this journey will end. But I think the most valuable lesson I learned from doing the PhD was that don’t fear the unknown. As they say " fortune favours the brave; greater the risk, greater the glory.
But if I do not give it a shot, I will regret it for the rest of my life. I don’t think I can live like that. I have to try and see where it will take me. I hope everything will work out.
