DesignsHeaven

I'm Rahul from Meerut, India. I come from a middle class family. I was a simple kid who was the elder of the two siblings, thus parents always kept the pressure on me to be an engineer however whenever I got break or some time for me, I used it drawing, on my school copies, home furniture, walls and everywhere I got a chance to draw or put a design on. I was scolded and beaten for this several times but parents never realized that it was my interest and I was too young to understand that I could do something amazing with it. Concisely, I became what they wanted me to be, an IT engineer. I completed my Bachelor's degree course in Computer Applications in 2000. Sorry! I forgot to tell you about my second and major interest- cricket. I played cricket till university but couldn't take any of my interests further to a professional level then because a middle class family doesn't think beyond "cutting the dress according to the cloth" so I initially worked here and there at small firms for about 5 years and somehow kept the designer and the cricketer in me alive. I kept learning different types of designing and drawing from different sources available locally or online. Continued with the flow of the life for about 14 years, I didn't realize how the time slipped off, by this time I was married and had 2 kids. And I had started feeling like with the time passing by, I was loosing some very important part of my life. Then one day, I heard of my company closing their business and we were asked to leave. All the employees lost their jobs. I searched for another job, got into a couple of companies but kept loosing jobs for the reasons like company sold all their shares to someone else and he wanted a complete new staff, later Covid-19. I struggled for over three years like this, lost all my funds, unable to earn for the family, so my father-in-law came in for the rescue and gave my wife some money to start a small garments shop. Now we are surviving through that shop however it needs repeated investment for filling it with products and I had lost my self-respect already by now but we didn't want to do that with the help of our in-laws so finally one day I decided to give up on what I don't like to do and now-on-wards do what I always wanted to do because I have heard that we have a better chance of achieving success in the work that we love to do instead of what we have to do. I started searching for a designing related work that I could do with minimum investment and I came across many options like creating gigs on some of the freelancing sites as a designer but for months I didn't get any work because all those places are already full of trained designers already. Then I came to know about POD- Print On Demand business, I found this concept very interesting so I researched and researched for many months and also found Etsy to be helpful in this business. Now, I had some meaningful and practical way to be able to express myself through my designs and at the same time earn a living also. So here I am with some of my custom designed products on my Etsy shop "Designs Heaven", you can see the banner of the shop is also designed by me. Hope you'll like my designs and buy these products happily, I thank you for taking the time out to read my life story!