Her whole family were doctors — she was expected to follow. Deepika Sharma picked up a pencil instead, and now runs D Plus Y, the boutique architecture firm she built with her husband Yogi. An unconventional career story about choosing your own path against a family script. Hear it on My First Job.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Deepika Sharma comes from a family of doctors, but medicine was never her path — she loved sketching, and her father saw architecture as the natural professional fit. In this episode, she talks about building D Plus Y, the boutique architecture firm she runs with her husband Yogi, and what has kept her genuinely interested in architecture as a career, project after project, big and small.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN

• Why Deepika didn't follow her family's doctors-only career script, and how ...