Engineer turned garbage collector goes viral and cries as he remembers his good old working days in Dubai

A video of an alleged homeless man who claims to be an engineer and previously worked in Dubai is going viral online. It shows him currently collecting trash on the streets and struggling to get food and some money to survive.

His heart-touching story was captured in the video by an influencer and social worker named Jigar Rawal, who shared it online.

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“My engineer hu…”

“My engineer hu. Khaana waana hai toh do yaar, my khaana nahi khaaya…Kaam milta nahi hai ab, engineer hu aur ek jamaana tha Dubai jaake aaya. (I am an engineer. If you have something to eat please give it to me “I can't get a job now but I am an engineer and was in Dubai in the good old days,” he said, noting that things changed drastically, after his wife left him.

With tears in his eyes, he expressed in the video that he traveled and worked abroad to earn more income for his family, but in the end he learned that his wife had left him devastated.

“She left with someone else, along with our children. I thought I would earn something by going to a foreign country and getting something for them too, but something different just happened here,” he added.

Now an elderly garbage collector, who roams the streets to collect garbage and earn some money by selling it to Raddiswallas, said his life has changed and he is in a dire situation affecting both his family and… lost his financial stability. The video went viral on social media, reaching more than 19 million viewers on Instagram.