I finished my diploma and immediately had a crisis.
Picture it: a fresh diploma in hand, zero idea what to do with it, and a brain that only ever wanted to talk about one thing — cricket. Not "casually enjoyed cricket." I mean argued-with-strangers-online-at-2am obsessed. Watching Kohli grind in that era did something to me: it made me want to be that ridiculously serious about something. I just didn't know what that something was yet. (Spoiler: it was not, in fact, cricket.)
So I did the most reasonable thing an unemployed 20-something could do I started a blog. SportzCliq. A tiny cricket website where I wrote about matches and stats like the entire internet was hanging on my every word. It was not. My audience was, generously, three people and a bot. But I loved it, and I refused to stop.
Here's the plot twist nobody warned me about: while desperately trying to get those three readers to become four, I accidentally taught myself SEO. And that scrappy, unread, borderline-embarrassing blog quietly handed me my first SEO client. My failure had a side hustle. The side hustle became my life.
