Following your Ambition: The Inspirational Story of CTH Student, Tanvir Ahmed

Introduce yourself and tell our users about your background?

Hi my name is Tanvir Ahmed. I'm a hard working person who is very determined to make a difference. I work as a manager at my family run travel agency in Sylhet, Bangladesh. I have been doing this since 2012 . As a result of this, I managed to motivate myself to do better in life. I faced a lot of struggles in my early educational journey due to my learning difficulties but I didn't let that put me down. I carried on working hard to overcome my weakness and today I'm a manager who is running my family business and studying at the same time to prove myself to the world.

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It's really good that you have hotel experience, tell us how you got the internship and what it was like there?

I believe in being practical and proving myself by being honest and to the point. I hunted for places to carry out my internship as I didn't wait for the opportunity to come to me. Instead I went to grab it to own it. I visited Star Specific which is one of the well known hotels in Sylhet. I informed them of my background and my abilities. I also informed them of my current education and how I can learn much more from them with their support. They were impressed with my honesty and experience of working as a manager at a Travel Agency therefore decided to give me a chance to complete my internship. My experience of working for Star Specific as in intern was quite amazing. They helped me put my knowledge into practice.

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Were there any challenges?

It was challenging for me at first as I did not know what was expected of me. I felt like they were expecting less of me because I was only an intern and not a full time employee. Regardless of that I decided to chip in and get along with the other employees and blended myself in to prove that I can do this. The director of the hotel was very impressed with me when he saw me work hard day in day out. He understood that I learnt new things everyday by working there as an intern. I was also offered with a job but I decided to carry on building my own business in Travel Agency and spend more time in completing Level 4-6 of my Hotel Management course under CTH.

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What are your plans for the future?

As mentioned before my plan is to make a difference. It's quite hard to make a difference in a developing country as there aren't many opportunities for us to grow. However I will carry on working hard to make a name for myself.

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Would you recommend the CTH course?

I would recommend this course to any individual who is willing to get themselves out there. It is not too late to get back into education. I thought life had nothing to give me as I did really badly in school due to my learning difficulties. But today I'm in the process of completing all my levels under hotel management in order to have a degree. This says it all and it is not too late to try.

We wish Tanvir all the luck in his pursuit for his degree.