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Career Shifts:

Aren’t they a Work
of Fiction?

eeling overwhelmed about your career is only normal when you hear that the number of
unemployed people has easily reached 2,920 million people according to CAPMAS. Carrying your
Fbackpack through school, aspiring of replacing it with a briefcase to lead a successful career,
adds even more pressure on you when it comes to making a career decision. Jobs, however, are not
death sentences; despite being painted on the canvas of impossibility, Ahmed Asran, an engineer with
a sweet-tooth and Mahmoud Maghrabi, a businessman who believes in the power of communities, are
here to prove that career shifts are possible.

Ahmed Elsayed Asran

I chose engineering because I have always been of making dessert because I love it however, for
good with mathematics, always acing my exams. engineering I will need the certificate in the future
In Saudi Arabia I went to a competition where and that is one of the reasons to why I have not
the winner goes to university for free. Taking into dropped out of university.
consideration how expensive universities are in
KSA, winning this competition is a bid deal! Just For my goal, I want to be a businessman, this
like that, I won the competition; I moved to Egypt is my long-term goal. It all clicked together when
instead, though. I started making desserts for my friends and they
were the ones who initially encouraged me to start
Sorrowfully, once I went to university my grades selling instead of giving them away as gifts. My
declined a few years later because I wasn’t feeling reply at that time was that the only recipes I do
passionate about the subjects I was learning. In are the ones I remember from the time before the
fact, I picked a field I was good at, but my emotions incident, other than that, I’m not good with making
did not really align with my rational at the time. My desserts.
true passion is in cooking. In high school, I had
undergone a nasal pockets’ surgery that went The thought was too tempting; it actually
wrong; leaving me with a life-long deformity; it encouraged me to give it a shot. I have never tried
ruined my ability to both taste and smell. cinnamon rolls before; in fact, I was planning on
trying them once I arrived to Egypt. So, what’s there
During that time, everything tasted quite the to stop me from developing my own cinnamon rolls
same. Losing something you used to take for recipe for everyone to enjoy?
granted brings its value to the limelight. I developed
an obsession to the extent that I had decided to And just like that Nebula, my Facebook page
learn how to cook and got way better at it,especially started. The challenges I have faced; nevertheless,
with sweets. I have decided to continue in the field needed a lot of effort to get surpassed.

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