Career Change at 30: Inspiring Story of Female Entrepreneurship
Summary
“I met brilliant students studying liberal arts, languages and writing who spent their summers developing apps and creating startups,” she mentions.Fashion is always considered an unintellectual career choice and is never encouraged by parents or society.Her experiences at Harvard University changed her life, where she went to pursue her Master’s degree in design.“I met brilliant students studying liberal arts, languages and writing who spent their summers developing apps and creating startups,” she mentions.She took formal classes on writing at MIT and management at Harvard Business School.Back in India, Shilpa became frustrated with her 9 to 5 jobs, which never satisfied her multifaceted personality, despite being amongst the top-paid employees in the firms she joined.She deleted her profiles from online job search portals and converted her portfolio and architecture consulting website, ShilpaAhuja.com, to a fashion blog.