I do not want to build a traditional career (ironic, considering my Master’s program had a course titled “Build Your Career”). Instead, my goal is to add items to my bucket list and check them off. This comes from the constant need to do something else. I want to experience many industries, variety of roles, work with all sorts of people, build things, travel, and battle imposter syndrome. I want to be the generalist whose skillset keeps getting wider and whose life story is a tapestry of a million different coloured threads. 

So here is my bucket list (or, kanban board), new and old, in no particular order.

[Last updated: 30 March 2024]

To do

• Be acknowledged in a film/TV-series credits

• Create and sell an art piece

• Travel to Japan, Germany, and Cuba

• Visit every state in India

• Witness the Northern Lights

• Secure an investor

• Employ five people full-time

• Work at a startup

• Sell 10,000 units of something I have designed

• Take my friends on a holiday

• Auction an item

• Live in Europe for a year

• Establish a philanthropic foundation

• Host a Jeffersonian Dinner

• Own a commercial/office space

• Start a coffee shop + bar

In progress

• Write a book

• Work at a design studio

• Obtain a patent

• Earn $10,000 as a freelancer

Done

• Attain one million views on a YouTube video

• Study in the US

• Reach over 100,000 customers

• Travel to Turkey

• Attend Apple WWDC

• Have a research paper published

• Throw a 12-hour birthday party