With most trainees in vocational training coming out of rural India and with jobs in the urban areas, lifestyle transition and the pressure of the first-job are anyway hard, for both men and women. The latter group, however, have added battles that they were hitherto not faced with — the challenge of safety, struggles of finding accommodation alone amidst suspicious landlords, and the realities of work-place harassment which are amplified for these women who are anyway fighting all odds, and often with their own families, to prove their mettle. Ensuring these women don't dropout and go back home with bad experiences is essential to prevent resistance from the community and fear within women themselves, in working.