Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could -Robert Frost This post talks about my journey to becoming a software engineer and some of the ostensibly risky decisions I took that helped me get there. I majored in Computer Science in Ghaziabad and got a campus placement at an MNC in Pune. A few months later I found myself filling forms in the name of manual testing.