I used to break my toys.
Not because I wanted to destroy them.
I wanted to know what was inside.
How did it work?
Why did it move?
That curiosity never really left me.
Years later, I started learning digital marketing with a borrowed laptop.
I remember getting my Google Digital Garage certificate. I was so happy that day.
I even thought:
“Maybe one day Google will hire me.”
Then I asked my father for a computer.
For almost six months.
Eventually, he agreed.
But there was a condition:
If I got the computer, I had to take responsibility for everything after that.
Internet. Tools. Everything.
So I started freelancing.
I opened Fiverr with almost no idea how freelancing actually worked.
I didn’t understand positioning.
I didn’t know how to find clients.
I depended almost completely on one marketplace.
Then my second order got cancelled.
My account went down.
Money was already tight. At one point, I struggled to pay my internet bill.
And the internet wasn’t just entertainment for me.
It was the thing I was trying to build my future with.
People around me also didn’t really understand how someone could build a career online.
The traditional path was familiar:
Study → degree → stable job.
So when I said I wanted to build my career through the internet, not everyone believed me.
I don’t blame them.
They were judging the future based on what they had seen.
So I decided to prove it through results.
I tried.
I failed.
I tried different businesses.
I lost clients.
I made mistakes.
I started again.
Eventually, I realized Fiverr wasn’t the entire internet.
I explored other opportunities, joined Upwork, started working with clients from different countries, and eventually earned Top Rated status.
Today, I work in web analytics and conversion tracking.
GA4. GTM. Google Ads tracking. Meta Pixel + CAPI. Server-side tracking. Data layers. Consent Mode.
And there’s something funny about the journey.
As a kid, I took things apart to understand how they worked.
Today, I do the same thing with websites and marketing systems.
I take them apart.
I look at the data.
I find what’s broken.
Then I build it properly.
I’m still learning. Still experimenting. Still failing sometimes.
But I’m still curious.
I was once a kid who wanted to know what was inside a toy.
I’m still that kid.
I’m just opening different things now.