Laid Off Graphic Designer With 14 Yrs of Experience Turns Auto Driver

From being a graphic designer and even holding the position of assistant Creative Manager in a Mumbai startup for over 5 years, Kamlesh Kamtekar has turned into an auto-rickshaw driver to earn a living. With over 14 years of rich experience in graphic designing Kamlesh tried to secure a related position in Mumbai after getting laid off from his workplace. However, he got rejected everywhere.

Kamlesh has over 28,000 followers and 500+ connections on LinkedIn where he informed being laid off months ago to find a new job as a graphic designer.

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The LinkedIn post

Now that he could not fetch a graphic designer's job, he thought of taking up a driver’s role to keep earning. 

"It’s almost 5 months completed that I have lost my job due to company cost cutting. I still haven't found a new job. I had try also with lots of references, with my friends. But till yet I don't get new job. I had lots of applied on linkedin also, but every time my application was getting rejected...So I decided to sacrifice my all designing skills and drive an auto rickshaw", he wrote on LinkedIn. 

The graphic designer-turned-auto driver Kamlesh shared a photo of him standing next to his vehicle in a recent LinkedIn post. It was learned that the photo was clicked on his iPhone.

Read the LinkedIn post here.

"This is so inspirational", a LinkedIn user commented.

"Design field has become horrible. There are lott of experienced design professionals like this...Very unfortunately", remarked another.

His LinkedIn followers congratulated him in finding a new profession the job and extended tehir best wishes towards him.

"Wishing you success you have taken the right decision why to use our skills and our important time for any company or brand. We should use our skills and time to build our own business", a follower wrote.

"Creativity is not only with designing. It evolves in every job. Best of luck Kamalesh", another individual said.

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