Dating my co-worker was a huge mistake

Office romance taught me important lessons.

I was 21 when I graduated and stepped into the real world. It was very liberating, finally having a path in life and making money and aiming for being a better professional and a better person. I had landed myself a job that honestly was out of my league at the time. My college, you see, was one of the many unheard-of engineering colleges in India, and the maximum the students could realistically aim for was for getting selected in the bulk-hiring process of companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, etc. I had promised myself…