John Joy Nereveettil (born on 10 February 1994) is a former video editor and content writer.
John Joy Nereveettil (born on 10 February 1994) was born in Mumbai in India to Joy John Nereveettil who is an Indian central government officer and Licy Joy, a middle school history teacher. He was named after his grand father, N.K. John.
He attended Don Bosco High School Matunga, which is a Roman Catholic school in Mumbai, India. It used to be a boys' school.' Attending a Catholic school, also largely impacted his religious beliefs' later on in life. As John's father works for the government, he spend his early childhood days in the government campus which was also his place of residence. His day-dreaming personality often concerned his parents, as he would often be in his room by himself writing. John says that as his father often refused to be promoted to senior positions at his workplace, in order to avoid a job transfer to another city, all the other residents in his campus eventually moved out due to transfer orders' from the government, having been replaced by new residents, resulting in a constant change in his immediate friends circle. Hence, unable to create strong bonds and living in an extremely quiet locality in an extremely and busy city like Mumbai, encouraged him to disappear and create his own world that he could believe in.
When John was seventeen, he began to experience bouts of depression and was prescribed medication to combat the illness. John said that, 'that was the time the artist in me was born.'
John also went on to be the runner-up of Bombay times, Clean n Clear Fresh Face 2013 which was a popular annual talent show in India which had national news coverage.
Also during this time, John was introduced to a Christian church quite different from the Roman Catholic church, his parents' would go to. John also says that, it was during this time that he had experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit which had encouraged him to pursue a strong relationship with God.
John often considered skipping college to pursue his career as a film maker, but his parents dissuaded him. He enrolled in St. Andrews college of Arts in Mumbai and went on to graduate with a Bachelor's degree in English literature. On graduating, John's father got him to intern as a video editor at a famous Indian television called Fear Factor, although the precondition was that he had to work twelve hour shifts from nine at night to nine in the morning. During this period, John had fallen quite ill and also led him to re-experience bouts of depression. it was during this time that John began to publicly vent out his feelings by writing of his experiences and hardships on a social media network called Facebook. After subsequently, quitting the firm after receiving a job offer to work on another television show, outside the city, John realized that it was time to change his job. Hence, in a couple of moths, he moved to a media firm called Halo Media works limited. During, this period he began to experience computer vision syndrome due to sitting long hours in front of the computer screen inside a dark studio floor. Due to dissatisfaction for his job and also concern for his eyes; John began to re-apply for jobs that required him to work a standard shift of eight hours with weekend holidays unlike his previous jobs. At one of his interviews for the post of a video editor, John was asked to write an essay upon which he was offered a job of a content writer, which also led him on then to apply for the post of a content writer. He eventually went on to work as a content writer at K - group which is also part owner of Fashion TV India.
He is currently developing his articles that are being posted on 'blogger.com'.