| Jul. 6th, 2008 @ 04:04 pm The numbers and the labels |
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Current Mood:  calm
Was reading Ranjan's disheartening experience (http://ranjankumar.com/2008/07/05/whats-in-the-number/) on his blog. Was reminded of few of my memories. Earlier I had written few blogs about various job experiences I had been through. These ones come from the times that were possibly from the prior to get a job or in between them.
College times was pretty dreamy times. Not that we were in all air, unaware of ground realities. Just that there were enough hopes, few dreams. No, am not talking of me as individual. This was between us friends. We would be waiting for time to pass by. We were waiting for college to get over, get ourselves on road, find some job, get started and then finally make it big someday, sooner the better. We even used to feel bad those times that we came in quite late in this world otherwise we would have been kings or the big names of those times. And finally when the college was over, I especially, was upbeat of the timings. That was the last year of this millennium. It was 1999. Next year would mark the beginning of a (new) millennium. The one that belonged to us. I used to call ourselves - The Millennium Kids.
In between 1994 till 1999, I already had accumulated 5 job experiences. Was quite confident of clearing my interviews. Well, the confidence was shaken a little bit when I flunked campus interview. Something that would have saved me a position in Wipro as Network Engineer. Cleared the technical stuff and created nonsense in HR interview. Person asked me about my weak points, strong points etc. Felt that everyone has some weak points. I must be having some. Thought hard, could not find any on finger tips. Then just for the sake of it blurted out - Frustration when things don't work. Person asked what do you do then? What do I do? How do I know? I never got frustrated with anything. What should i say... "Well, I go out, have tea, come back and solve the problem". I lost that opportunity. Was quite sad then but today, I feel quite lucky that I missed out on it. What came after an year from then, was something much more valuable. I became part of NCST which for me is a dream come true. I am madly in love with this place and its people [sniff sniff...] :p
Okay okay, back to regular track... But after I was through college thing, I learned what frustration means. 15 days on street and no job in hand. Reasons cited was me being a fresher (the big O in experience). Then one day when I returned home after whole day of search for job, mom informed about Infotech Computer Education's call for interview. A private institute barely 200 meters away from my place of residence that time. Whatever happened after that, would appear in some other blog some other time.
Then after sometime when I joined NCST, I used to be pushed by institute to attend various seminars and workshops. I started finding them boring. Crowd used to come together in order to build up/expand their network by means of these seminars/workshops. The informative thing used to be very minimal. It was more for marketing something than knowledge sharing. Things slowly became unbearable and I stopped attending such things. I would attend only when am pretty sure that there's going to be some bag or tshirt or something be available from it. That IBM haversack's still coming handy, though I guess I can accommodate one such marketing seminar yet again. I need a new haversack, you see :p |
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