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We are hiring for two full time positions at LawSikho.

Position 1: Principal Associate for Contract Drafting Course

Requirements:

1. 5-6 years PQE in contract drafting and negotiation
2. Excellent English communication skills
3. Willingness to learn and adapt
4. Laptop and stable wifi connection

Salary: ₹75k - ₹1L per month plus incentives

Position 2: Senior Associate for Criminal Litigation and Ancillary Courses

Requirements:

1. 4-5 years PQE in (criminal) trial and appellate courts
2. 50+ appearances per year for the past two years
3. Clear English communication is absolutely necessary

Salary: ₹50k - ₹65k per month plus incentives

Core Job Responsibilities:

1. Teaching
2. Research and development of study material
3. Mentoring students

Why Should You Apply?

Because you:

1. Have a passion for teaching and mentoring
2. Need/ prefer a remote job
3. Are seeking stability with an engaging job profile
4. Believe that you can make a difference by working with us

You Should Not Apply If You:

1. Want to chill at a remote job
2. Can't withstand pressure situations
3. Aren't a team player
4. Get offended too soon too easy (we have learners who might have 3x more experience than you, and need people with the maturity to understand their needs and patience to deliver)

DM your CV to Abhipsa Anamika with a write-up on why we should hire you. Keep it succinct but interesting. Attach a sample draft a contract or a legal document that you drafted and would be proud of

Share this with your talented friends who can be amazing teachers, tag them in comments - if your introduction results in successful hiring you get a surprise gift from me!

Skill Arbitrage is hiring coaches and course anchors. 20 open positions. Remote jobs, work from anywhere.

Who we are looking for:
1. 4+ years of work experience in industry, but your heart is in coaching & teaching. You love to help other people learn, push through their limitations and thrive when you see them grow.
2. Very emphathetic, incredible communication skills (spoken and written)
3. Perfect English non negotiable
4. You want to teach but find environments of colleges and schools suffocating and can’t imagine working in such hierarchical places where your innovation and enthusiasm will be stifled (this is how I felt when I thought of teaching in traditional colleges)
5. Love to learn new skills, love to read non-fiction, love to research, could be a consultant
6. Very good analytical skills, which shows in your writing, can work with abstract situations and ideas
7. For you work from home is important and preferably non-negotiable. We love people from small town. We are open to people from other time zones. Our team works from 8 different countries.

Background:
1. We are open to any disciplines but our past anchors who did really well came from: law, English literature, liberal arts, engineering, accountancy, HR, finance and science
2. We are not looking for freshers. At least 3-4 years of successful professional experience mandatory.

What you will be doing:
1. Help students learn better, manage their learning outcomes, encourage them to go for their biggest goals
2. Manage NPS of the course allocated to you
3. Help people to land jobs, clients and guide them on how they can take their career to next level (we will train you and give you necessary tools for that)
4. Help us improve our courses with ideas, with content, new pedagogy

If sounds like you, please reach out to me in my inbox, or Yash Vijayvargiya. You can let us know in comments why you are the right person and we will reach out if your profile and answer seems relevant, if you can’t inbox us.

Hiring the right course anchors is key to our success. Please help us to spread this by tagging your smartest friends who love to teach and may want to move to teaching roles.

In a world with new technological break throughs and new opportunities scaling at a speed never seen in human history, why is it that so many people struggle so much to land a job or earn well?

This takes me back to first year economics class.

Rapid technological changes and new industries do two things:

1. Makes old knowledge, skills and ways of doing business obsolete
2. Workforce has to keep up with new technology and opportunities - through continuous reskilling

Most people are terrible at reskilling. Those who are able to reskill for the new world thrive, those who cannot pay a dear price.

This is where economics class stopped. I observed something in my 10 years as an entrepreneur operating in the skilling space.

Its not only about learning new hard skills.

News skills can be learnt easier than ever in a world with YouTube, Instagram and ubiquitous skilling edtech.

The harder thing to change is mindset.

You look at people who succeeded 10 years back and want to copy them.

But the ball has moved.

This means you must beat your own path.

Our institutions like colleges, schools, universities are not at all incentivised to keep pace with the changing world. They keep hearking back to the past. They not only fail to prepare you for the new world, they actively train you to fail by introducing ideas that are already obsolete.

Once you start working, you have to unlearn before you can learn.

Most people become casualty because they can’t reconcile such conflicts & don’t survive this process. They lose their way.

This is the source of widespread desperation and negativity in young people.

Only rebels who question institutional wisdom and are ready to experiment outside of popular perceptions succeed in a world like this.

The hardest NO of my life

Saying no to your family is hard.

This was 2012, I had just aggressively paid down my education loan of about 3 lakhs in just 5 months. I did not care how much the instalments were officially supposed to be, I just wanted to be debt free as soon as possible so I could plan my startup.

When the salary hit my account, I would pay 50% of the salary immediately to prepay the loan. If there was any money left by the end of the month, I would pay that to the loan account as well.

Of course, it helped that I had a well paid job.

When the loan was paid, I felt like I had freedom to finally think of doing a startup.

I started saving and aligning things so I could quit in the next 6 months.

One of the tough things to do here was telling my mother I would quit and embrace a life of hardship for an unknown amount of time in the future.

She had sacrificed so much through her life to help me succeed upto that point, and I knew she was hoping after this I would help her in a few things, to make her dreams come true.

So I finally made the call. I still remember it vividly.

The call went downhill.

She sounded disappointed. She urged me to carry on. She even got emotional and cried.

She was tired of living in rented places and finally wanted to build her own place on a small parcel of land my parents had bought jointly (with their entire savings and some loan at that point).

They did not have money to build this, and my father refused to support this project.

She expected me to provide the funds.

I tried to convince her that she can wait for a few more years, there is no crisis as such that she has to immediately own a house ASAP. This is an emotional decision.

But she had made up her mind, and brought out her ultimate cards - reminding me of promises I made as a child to support her when I grew up. She made me count the numerous times she sacrificed her well being for us.

And she wanted me to postpone my startup.

This was a moment of danger. Millions of dreams get crushed exactly at this point. You prioritise dreams of your loved ones instead of doing the right thing that makes sense for the long term, even for your family.

What am I supposed to do? Give up on my dreams, suck it up and keep working at the job that made me deeply unhappy?

No way.

I informed her that I am going to give her my last savings that I had saved through the last 6 months (the original intent was that this saving will allow me to work for a year without worrying about money). I also sold the motorbike I had bought in college and gave the money to her.

She took a bank loan to build the house (look, this was always a possibility but it was easier to put the responsibility on me😂).

I also made her a promise - that give me a few years (3-4 years I said, naive me) and I would come back and change our family’s fortune forever if I succeeded. And if I failed, do not worry, I would never come back and ask you for money, I said.

So I entered my startup journey with significantly less cushion in the bank than I hoped to have. But at least I got a chance to make a play.

And I left behind every concern. There was only one objective that I must succeed.

I was not in a position to help my parents after 3-4 years as I thought I would be.

But then came 2019, the year my mother retired. Almost 7 years after I started my journey as an entrepreneur.

She did not get her pension. Her legitimate dues as a government teacher were held back due to some inane reasons.

But I told her, don’t worry, the pension you were supposed to get, I will give it to you.

By this time I had found some ground after my feet.

So my mother never again suffered from lack of money. At the most crucial time, I was able to tide her through.

It took her 3.5 years and a couple of High Court orders to get her pension, along with interest. This work was also done for her by her lawyer daughter (my sister). You can imagine how proud she is of her children these days.

She now gets two pensions, one from me and one from the State of West Bengal 😂 as she refused to let me stop even after she got her HC order

In the last 3 years, she has travelled to Spain, Portugal, Kenya, Tanzania, Dubai, Bangladesh (some 3 times to BD) and innumerable places within the country. No month goes by when she is not travelling.

Bad habits die hard though. She now gives me terrible financial advice like you should buy an apartment in New Town on EMI etc 💁apparently you should use the rent you pay to buy a property instead.

But I find it much easier to say NOOO to her now.

I have no doubt that I could not create the life I have been able to create for my parents if I just did a job. Starting a startup made all the difference. It was a lot of stress, a lot of struggle, a lot of failures, but I am proud of what we have created, and when I look at what it means for my family I feel blessed.

I have broken the generational curse of extreme poverty on my family.

Not only financially, today there is a sense of happiness, fulfilment, belongingness and togetherness in my family that I never saw as a child, growing up in a broken, fragmented household where quarrels, disputes and accusations never ended.

As I was able to turn scarcity into abundance, many things have forever changed now.

I had to harshly say no in order to march to my own tune, but it was worth it in the end.

I have no doubt that those amongst you who decide to take the harder path of wealth creation and building a business, will no doubt face such moments when ambitions, aspirations & dreams of your family members will collide with yours.

You may have to say no to the people you love the most, in interest of greater good. This is to be expected on your way to achieving a great destiny.

I hope you find the conviction in your heart to do the right thing.