A career journey from the shopfloor to the C Suite - P G Subramanian - Episode 1
Note sull'episodio
He started on a factory shopfloor in 50-degree heat. He retired as COO. P G Subramanian's career journey from shopfloor to C-suite is a lesson in choosing to learn over choosing salary — the founding story of My First Job's very first episode. Hear it now.
About this episode
P G Subramanian, Chief Operating Officer of Amnet Systems, opens My First Job by tracing his career journey from a 50-degree-heat factory shopfloor to the C-suite — a path built on business process management expertise across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the US. In this founding episode, he explains why he chose to prioritize learning over salary at every major decision point in his career.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- What it actually felt like starting a career on a factory shopfloor, and why P G Subramanian says that experience shaped everything after
- Why he consistently chose roles that offered the most learning, not the highest salary
- How a career in business process management improvement translates across industries and geographies
- What it took to move from shopfloor trainee to COO over a 30+ year career
- His advice for young people transitioning from studying to seeking their first job
Timestamps (approximate — placeholder markers scaled to this episode's runtime; to be confirmed against the actual audio)
00:00 — Intro: from the shopfloor to the C-suite
04:28 — P G Subramanian's first job on the factory shopfloor
16:32 — The turning point: choosing learning over salary
27:11 — The hard part: building expertise the hard way, project by project
39:32 — Building a career in business process management across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the US
51:36 — Advice for freshers transitioning from studying to their first job
56:38 — Closing thoughts
About P G Subramanian
Chief Operating Officer of Amnet Systems, a specialist in business process management improvement with 30+ years of experience setting up business processes across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/pgsubra (
Topics: career journey India, shopfloor to C-suite, career growth, first job lessons, career advice for freshers, business process management
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