Sai Prathyusha Neelam Neelam

I would say my hard work and not give up nature. I carry values like ethics and morality to build up my character. Apart from skills, I would definitely say these are very important factors for a person. The bringing up is very important, so wherever you go, your ethics and your skills together will make you stand out from that place. I think more than skills, being ethical and moral is very important. Because a person with skills, he may show up to work, but sometimes, even having so many skills, they do not end up working or finishing the work without morality. Wherever you go, your ethics, your morality, and character is very important. So, not doing wrong things is very important at any cost. I have been raised up like that by my parents, so I thought these are very crucial for one to grow in life. For temporary growth, skills are really important, but for a long time, growth and stability in life, mentally and physically, financially, these qualities are very important.

Keep going, no matter what. I feel I'm here in the USA after so much struggle, only because of my not-giving-up nature. As an international student, we have to go through a lot of process back in India before coming to USA. The visa process is very complicated. Just one visa, one minute interview decides life of a student, when he spends like $4,000, $5,000 around that visa. I decided that this is really useful for my career, so I never gave up. I think this advice is given by my guide who guided me in my bachelor's. I was not so much matured back then. So, keeping that word in mind, I never gave up. I think I'm standing here only because of that.

This is simple advice in food industry. There are jobs like production, quality, and R&D. When someone is entering into a production field, don't feel bad. There are good days and bad days. Finally, every day is a good day. Because production field takes a lot of energy for women to stand the whole day and work on the floor. Coming to quality, it feels a little boring doing all the sampling tests and microbial tests every day, like, from morning to evening, the same day. Same with R&D. We work on one product for the whole year. That seems a little boring, but keep engaged by learning the content, or the subject related, or around it, so that you don't feel bored, but don't give up. Because, like, when we start on a product, it might feel boring. At the end, when that product commercializes and getting to the market, when people start consuming it, we would feel very proud of ourselves that we made something very useful and people-pleasing.

For 3D printing, it is quite difficult because the meat has to be grown in the lab with the same parameters a chicken usually grows. After growing, it's just like a sponge. We have to make it very much looking and tasting like original meat. That is the biggest challenge. And in the food industry, the GMP, good manufacturing process, even if the product is so good, when we take that into market, a slight mistake, like not sanitizing the floor properly, could make it a recall. That is a real challenge, I would say. So, we have to be attentive all time, being a food industry professional. We are working on infusing few proteins, just like free-range hens, into lab-grown meat. So, we are still working on it.

I think more than skills, being ethical and moral is very important. Because a person with skills, he may show up to work, but sometimes, even having so many skills, they do not end up working or finishing the work without morality. They just steal the time and get paid. I'm just telling this for an example. Wherever you go, your ethics, your morality, and character is very important. So, not doing wrong things is very important at any cost. I have been raised up like that by my parents, so I thought these are very crucial for one to grow in life. For temporary growth, skills are really important, but for a long time, growth and stability in life, mentally and physically, financially, these qualities are very important.