My Dream..A Job.. Part 1

After an arduous struggle with the books for about 18 yrs, I had got a bachelors degree in Computer science engineering..Wow..

Those were my last few weeks in my college...Each day was a new day..Each day was an emotional day..The four glorious years which were spent amidst my friends was coming to its logical conclusion.. Those fun-filled moments in class, the happiness, the tears, the uninterrupted phone chats that went on from dusk to dawn, the many many night outs were we would dare to watch any crap movie to get that feel of the night life, those damn semester exams that used to bring a tinge of excitement and apprehension, the extra curricular activites..Every thing was coming to an end.. During one of those days, came a pleasant surprise (was it??).. A mail from the HR dept of the IT company which had offered me a job...!!!!I still remember jumping up and the down onseeing that mail..This was it...A long cherished dream of mine was becoming a reality.. I was going to work !!!!! Those years of struggle, fighting with the books and an educational system which rewarded originality, originality of the book's author rather than the student's thoughts,were coming to an end.. Looking back I realized that though these years spent learning for an enginnering degree, were the happiest in my life, it dint achieve the intended purpose..I dint learn anything...!!!!


But I dint give it a damn..For I thought the future had great things in store for me.. A Job..My earning..Hurrah...


I had got a break of about two weeks between the last days of my life as a student and my first days as a professional !!!! As I stepped on to the real world, where my parents role, for the first time in my life, began to diminish, I started realising as to what was it like to face the "competition".. From that eventful day till today and probably throught the rest of my life, am going to be in a crowd.. A crowd where I am going to be one among the many, irrespective what I go on to finally achieve.. The induction day is till vividly etched in my memory.. Close to thousand of us, the new inductees, were crammed in an audi.. The induction process was a two day affair where i started to get a feel of the organization.. Then I had underwent a three month long training in mainframes.. I failed to understand the rational behind the process of assigning that technology to me !!! Those three months were spent mostly in enjoying with the new group of friends, or I should say colleagues, rather any meaningful learning.. On the final day, we got our job posting..!! Man.. I got posted in Chennai..

It was another wonderful day I would remember vividly.. I have been a thorough Chennaite, spending all my life in Chennai, except my college days.. I dint take pains to learn Hindi and so the very thought that I could have been posted else where outside Chennai, created a sense of panic and fear..So the posting was a great relief..

I began the very next day in earnest, realizing the very fact that from that day onward, my rise or fall rested only with me.. I was entering the portals of a big corporate house where it was easy to get lost and ultimately flounder in one's career.. As luck or porbably destiny would have it, I had got an immediate allocation.. Within a matter of three months, my life took a srious turn from being an average student to some one who was going to work with a huge foreign insurance company.. This prospect excited me to a great deal.. I was beginning to savour the corporate culture..In a month or so, I became comfortable with the basic concepts in the insurance sector ,the structure of my organization and also with that of my client..


As the engagement under which I was working was a new one, my learning was on par with many of my experienced colleagues !!! It helped me to understand things faster and better. After a couple of months, the place started buzzing with activity as the real work started.. People in IT companies would agree that having an American firm as their client brings with it a major problem, that is the time difference!!! My project was no different.. We began working till late nights attendig various client trainings and presentations.. I was enjoying this life by the day as I have always been nocturnal in nature!!!

**** Gosh.. This is really interesting..I love it..My back is not allowing me to continue ******

So to be contd..

First experience of blogging

Blogging.. Ah..This is one thing which i never wanted to venture into. I have always thought blogging is for those people who have a sense of creativity in some corner of their brain. When some one puts his thoughts in a medium like this, its bound to make people notice you. Eyes on you is not always a great thing !!!


As we live in a fast paced world where due to Internet, the geographical boundarie have no substance, I still have that feeling of conservatism which plagues so many of my countrymen from expressing their views on various things. That had stopped me from doing just this, blogging..



As like every blogger, I am apprehensive in bringing my thoughts before the readers. I am of the opinion that blogs are not mere thoughts of a person, they tend to go a long way in potraying the acceptance levels of the blogger in the society in which he lives.


Having resisted this strong inclination of mine all these years, am doing what I never thought I would have the guts to try..Blogging..