Hello! My name is Rashni Hewawasam. I am a Sri Lankan currently living in France. About me? Well, I have one hell of a story as to why am here as a speaker.
Firstly, I consider myself a lifelong learner. I am an academic! This is why I love exams and I am always attracted to the most challenging field of study as well as life in general. Once I graduated from high school, I was given the scholarship to study medicine at the best medical university in Romania. I come from a very strict culture as well that believes the only professional careers in the world are an engineer or a doctor.
After, coming to the realization of what I really wanted in life (this took many years), I switched my career. My family was disappointed in general to see their daughter switching careers from being a surgeon (as that was one of the specialized fields I liked. My internship experience each summer was in the emergency sector of the hospital.) to being an entrepreneur and a life coach.
I was longing to have my own freedom as I thought that was missing in my life. There were so many issues that arose from being a doctor with this immensely long course of study without a guarantee of being financially independent. You miss out on a lot of things in a situation like this including finding true love as I was against the whole idea of arranged marriages.
I am in the preliminary stages of starting my own business that would potentially help humanity and was brought about by everything that was happening during the pandemic. People working in the medical profession are going to strike for medical freedom and not have to spread biased views of the vaccine so it favours the government’s situation in each country!
