Within the years that I graduated from university, the companies who wanted to work with fresh graduates would seek employees with the same stereotypical text: “bachelor’s degree with the possibility of master’s degree, at least one foreign language, 2 years of experience, male candidates should have completed military service and not older than 25 years old”. This combination seemed very hard even for me who started university at the age of 17, so within the first three years of university that I dreamed of becoming an academician, I just had fun. Nevertheless, in the last year, I was already surrendered to the idea of managing this ideal combination. I managed. However, I came to notice that it didn’t matter in professional life.
I started thinking about the idea of entrepreneurship within the years of my professional experience for which I was admired for doing the job of 3 people. I fit the profile that was told in the self-development books which said entrepreneurship is a state of mind. Our entrepreneurship reached a point beyond our expectations within six months. We had clients but the idea of “start-up” wasn’t perceived like today, or it was us who couldn’t perceive the idea. We couldn’t separate our ways with the brand. A couple of years went by. One of the days that I was thinking of going back to professional life, I made a job application and it changed my life.
I was young and I gained a place in the company. I led a lot of units and processes which I started to like. However, I realized that being close to the boss wasn’t as perfect as I thought of. In a couple of years, my body started to give health signals. My doctor advised me to quit my job, so I did.
As you would know disposition never changes. I had to go through the same process in senior positions. Throughout this time I started being interested in different disciplines. I directed my motivation to new working fields and researches which I believed would enrich me by means of professionalism and I applied what I learned into my business life. Concepts of leadership, management, brands, and new-generation marketing have entered my life during this time.
I am lucky that the time I spent half of my career in real estate is also the time that real estate went through the most radical changes. Briefly, I experienced the good, the bad and the hard times of the change in real estate sector when real estate trade is evolved into “sell – build” concept; urban transformation created many victims; sales to foreigners increased and therefore the imbalance created by this is tried to be overcome by legal arrangements like Consumer Law; lastly with some arrangements to the Citizenship Law to make real estate sales a way to gain citizenship.
Over the years, international travels have started taking more time from my life, leading to more frequent work on overseas real estate investments, global partnerships, and multinational development activities. Today, with my esteemed colleagues, we operate in the fields of real estate development, marketing, and sales with our own brands in more than ten countries, and we accompany the parties who dream of moving their business or lives to other countries in their residence and citizenship processes.