In August 2007, Arjun Jain was staring at his resignation draft from Yahoo Bangalore, earning ₹1 lakh per month with stock options — “the golden handcuffs every middle-class kid dreams of.” Yet he felt suffocated.

“Another content push. Another database migration. Another week moving avatars from server A to server B. My engineering degree screaming in protest. My mouse hovers over ‘Send’,” Jain wrote in a heartfelt post shared on X.

On the other side of his email lay a €1,400/month internship at MICC – Media Integration and Communication Center in Florence, with no job security and no visa certainty. “I hit send,” he said.

His manager pulled him aside: “𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥? You’re leaving Yahoo! for… Italy? Do you know how many people would kill for your job?”

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