Minding Your Business

Minding Your Business is a Collective for Career Conversations, and a collaborative project with Sanath Kumar. The idea started when Sanath and I, extremely confused about our career decisions, started talking to our peers and people working for social change, about what it means to work in the social space. The final(ish) toolkit has been created through design prototyping – in one of its current forms, Minding Your Business draws inspiration from the panchabhootas, and aims to encourage 20-23-year-olds to creatively think of their career aspirations through mediums like dance, music and conversation. My larger goal is to take this toolkit to government schools to address high school dropouts.

After spending almost 6 months reconnecting with my peers and my professional network, this project closed my PGDP year. While it is most prominently a real-life exploration of the potential environmental careers I can take, it also had me reflect on my position within nature. It made me take risks by experimenting with form, and pushed me to collaborate with a classmate I never would have otherwise. I learned to negotiate my politics, find my voice, and understand how much there is to working with nature. In more Disney terms, this project was a core memory of my time at PGDP.