{"id":1920,"date":"2014-02-21T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T10:13:59","slug":"life-takes-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/life-takes-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"When Life Takes A U Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/U-TurnCROP.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1922\" alt=\"U-TurnCROP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/U-TurnCROP.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>Life is unbelievable and can take a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153U turn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 when the chances of the same are rare.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t believe me then read about <b>Brian Acton <\/b>who four years back was struggling to get a foothold in his next spell of professional career. Being a common average man, his all positive thoughts on life had been brought to an abrupt end with his sudden termination from Yahoo after working for over 11 years.<br \/>\nHe soon started networking with recruiters but to no avail.<br \/>\nTwitter rejected him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1924 aligncenter\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/17.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1925 aligncenter\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/24.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/3.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook turned him down too for a position.Frustrated, he decided to do his own thing with his friend Jan Koum.<br \/>\nAnd after so many years yesterday, that very thing was bought by Facebook for whopping 19 billion dollars.<br \/>\nLife is unpredictable! Life is insane! There\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s nothing by which you can determine your tomorrow. So stay optimistic because you never gonna know what life holds next for you.<br \/>\nThis post was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/101081253286609699030\/?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rakesh Singh<\/a>, The product head at askIITians and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/iit-delhi\/\">IIT- Delhi<\/a> and IIM-Kozhikode alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is unbelievable and can take a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153U turn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 when the chances of the same are rare. If you don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t believe me then read about Brian Acton who four years back was struggling to get a foothold in his next spell of professional career. Being a common average man, his all positive thoughts on life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}