Learn & Earn.
Omkar works in the industry and is a faculty at XIC. As someone at this intersection, he always felt students getting out of the best institutes also are a lot like people who learn driving in a driving school. They have a license. But when they sit in their own car to drive, they realise they know very little, if not nothing. So, Sane Difference is an incubation, a nest, a shelter, whatever one wants to call it. It invests in youngsters who enrich the industry as they grow. Apply. Join. Learn. Earn. Grow. Fly away.
Who is it for?
Learning management can help a writer write better. Learning presentation skills can help a designer sell better. Learning writing can help a strategist plan better. The Learn-&-Earn program is for those who don't want to be boxed in early in life. They want to experiment more, they want to dabble more, wear different hats before choosing one. Sane Difference encourages that, trains in that and of course, pays a regular , respectable salary for that.
Mentees So Far
2020-21: Shamoeeta M
She started her writing life in Sane Difference working on a social media account, swiftly learning emailers, headlines, websites and content. She moved on to the big bad world of advertising. Today, she is a Creative at Mullen Lowe Lintas Dx.
2020 - 22: Saee Kanade
Saee graduated as a designer and then worked as a storywriter, copywriter and manager; learning the tricks of the trade and honing her craft. She flew away to the corporate side of life. Today, she is Sr. Manager, Copywriting, Cultfit, Bangalore.
2022-23: Swapnil Gaikwad
Swapnil is a design graduate and worked on the corporate side before working with Sane Difference. He learned that design is narrative, not just craft. Today, he is the founder of Long Distance Studios.
Oct '22 - Nov 24: Jasmine Shah
Jasmine was a co-founder and a mentee. She'd worked as a manager in design before and learned to dabble in finance, all the way to discovering her love for UX - today, she is a UX consultant on hire!
Apr '24 - Nov '24: Sania Usmani
Sania started off thinking she is a copywriter but turned out she was more of a content writer. She wanted to do try more things which she is doing at Sane Difference - from strategy to management to finance - all in a day's work.
Nov '25: Present: Radhika Nath
Radhika is born and raised in Kerala and for the lack of other ideas, did her MA in Arts and Literature. Working in advertising, she discovered Storysurf and learned to better her craft and here we are - today, she is a full time writer and part time manager!
You?
Do you not want to be boxed? Do you want to try new things? Learn new things? Be new things before you become one thing? Write to omkar@sanedifference.com and let's take it from there.