College was cool and everything seemed to be achievable. I was living in a nutshell and I considered it to be my world where nothing was impossible. But then every good thing comes to an end so did our college days. I had many sleepless nights thinking and dreaming of friends. But then I had to accept that merry making days were over and it was time to try on corporate shoes. After laying back in home for more than one month my friends and I decided to seek out for better opportunities in the IT sector. I had realized that I needed to brush up my studies but then engineers really don't study until the clock strikes 12. We had a plan to go to Bangalore and apply in hot shot IT-companies and so that was it, will bags full of hopes and aspirations we boarded the train to Bangalore unaware of the challenges ahead. We were not the only one, like every year students from all across India were getting ready to come down to Bangalore in search of better jobs or for their first job.
Its a great city and nowhere in India one can find such lovely people. People have amazing sense of responsibility and they don't talk shit about others. I think a sense of formalism drives them. It maybe the formal behaviour which they take up in the corporate world but forget to take off when they leave office. I had a very strange experience in one restaurant. I have a great appetite for South Indian food and love to have it.
So I was in a restaurant where I had ordered sambhar idly. Since there was self service so I had to carry the hot sambhar dipped idlies on my own. I made my way through few people carefully but accidently I tilted my plate a little to the left and the hot sambhar came all over the pants of a man. I had not noticed what happened but then felt someone holding my hand. I turned back to see the man standing in wet trousers with sambhar spread all over it. I immediately begged sorry from him, instead of shouting at me, the man smiled at me and asked me to be careful. I felt sorry for him and prayed that everything goes well with him. If I was in another part of India I might have got a loud thrashing or even could have got beaten up.
The city is beautiful but at the same time is very costly and expensive. All of my cost cutting methods failed and in-spite of trying hard I still had to shell out a great amount of money daily in order to get my basic needs fulfilled. The main reason for the city being so expensive is the life style of the people. Most of them work in IT companies that provides good salary to its employees. Since everyone has money to buy things therefore price automatically climbs the ladder. Simple demand and supply graph which I remember from my college lectures. Thank you S.R.C sir for the wonderful lectures.
People are very busy in their own life and are very much occupied in their work. They hardly find time to have a normal life schedule. But then, it is the work hard and party harder concept which most of the people have incorporated them in their lives.
Getting ahead in career is all that people care for. It is definitely a proving ground for people with talents in all domains.
I realized a thing after coming down to Bangalore, either you have to have a great luck or you have to be a hard working donkey in order to be successful here. It's true that Bangalore is a place filled with opportunities but then you have to smart enough to identify it and map it according to your talents and skills. You can go on for an endless job hunt killing small rabbits here and there or you can be the patient tigress which after endless wait and perseverance makes a great kill. Well I took me time to understand what I really wanted from my life. I started off my wild hunt for job like a rookie and wanted to conquer each and every opportunity that passed by. I was successful in all my ventures but then never thought of committing myself to a particular company. I got selected in many of them but then tossed the offers as if they were of no use to me. I guess it was my inability to decide, that I always felt myself into a dilemma whenever I got an offer from a company and used to seek advice from people who never existed before in my life.
I guess it was the time I needed a bitter lesson and I got it in a style. I guess I was occupied in this company for nearly two weeks. I had made up my mind a long ago about not joining this company but then how could I have let the opportunity pass by. I had an aptitude test, 3 rounds of interviews, a written test and finally an interview at the company premises. After all this I finally got the offer from the company and then I communicated to the HR that I wasn't interested in the offer. They were shocked to hear this and asked me about the reason of not joining the company. I gave them a lame excuse that I wasn't much aware of the position being offered by the company before and therefore I need to opt out.
The HR personnel was so infuriated that she blasted on me. She made me realize my mistake, that because of me there were other deserving candidates who failed to get the opportunity to get the first job. If I would have opted out earlier then a student in greater need of job could have attained it. I came to know that there was something terribly wrong in me and I had to have a solution for it first. I made up my mind that I would not go for wild hunt and narrowed my goals and made my aim very specific. I had to channelize my efforts into proper direction and had to focus. It was a tough time for me to let opportunities pass by but then as we say that there is always a time for everything.
I am still waiting in the same small 10x8 room of mine with patience. Sometimes I get frustrated and feel things are not working accordingly. Mean while one of my friend who came along with me to Bangalore got a great job at Unisys. He has joined the company and is doing great. I was happy for him and at the same time realized that sunrise is just nearby. We must remember that "the darker the night the closer it is to dawn". People do make mistakes in their life and its obvious, but then one should learn from them. As I say Life is to stumble and get up!!!
Its a great city and nowhere in India one can find such lovely people. People have amazing sense of responsibility and they don't talk shit about others. I think a sense of formalism drives them. It maybe the formal behaviour which they take up in the corporate world but forget to take off when they leave office. I had a very strange experience in one restaurant. I have a great appetite for South Indian food and love to have it.
So I was in a restaurant where I had ordered sambhar idly. Since there was self service so I had to carry the hot sambhar dipped idlies on my own. I made my way through few people carefully but accidently I tilted my plate a little to the left and the hot sambhar came all over the pants of a man. I had not noticed what happened but then felt someone holding my hand. I turned back to see the man standing in wet trousers with sambhar spread all over it. I immediately begged sorry from him, instead of shouting at me, the man smiled at me and asked me to be careful. I felt sorry for him and prayed that everything goes well with him. If I was in another part of India I might have got a loud thrashing or even could have got beaten up.
Getting ahead in career is all that people care for. It is definitely a proving ground for people with talents in all domains.
I realized a thing after coming down to Bangalore, either you have to have a great luck or you have to be a hard working donkey in order to be successful here. It's true that Bangalore is a place filled with opportunities but then you have to smart enough to identify it and map it according to your talents and skills. You can go on for an endless job hunt killing small rabbits here and there or you can be the patient tigress which after endless wait and perseverance makes a great kill. Well I took me time to understand what I really wanted from my life. I started off my wild hunt for job like a rookie and wanted to conquer each and every opportunity that passed by. I was successful in all my ventures but then never thought of committing myself to a particular company. I got selected in many of them but then tossed the offers as if they were of no use to me. I guess it was my inability to decide, that I always felt myself into a dilemma whenever I got an offer from a company and used to seek advice from people who never existed before in my life.
I guess it was the time I needed a bitter lesson and I got it in a style. I guess I was occupied in this company for nearly two weeks. I had made up my mind a long ago about not joining this company but then how could I have let the opportunity pass by. I had an aptitude test, 3 rounds of interviews, a written test and finally an interview at the company premises. After all this I finally got the offer from the company and then I communicated to the HR that I wasn't interested in the offer. They were shocked to hear this and asked me about the reason of not joining the company. I gave them a lame excuse that I wasn't much aware of the position being offered by the company before and therefore I need to opt out.
The HR personnel was so infuriated that she blasted on me. She made me realize my mistake, that because of me there were other deserving candidates who failed to get the opportunity to get the first job. If I would have opted out earlier then a student in greater need of job could have attained it. I came to know that there was something terribly wrong in me and I had to have a solution for it first. I made up my mind that I would not go for wild hunt and narrowed my goals and made my aim very specific. I had to channelize my efforts into proper direction and had to focus. It was a tough time for me to let opportunities pass by but then as we say that there is always a time for everything.
I am still waiting in the same small 10x8 room of mine with patience. Sometimes I get frustrated and feel things are not working accordingly. Mean while one of my friend who came along with me to Bangalore got a great job at Unisys. He has joined the company and is doing great. I was happy for him and at the same time realized that sunrise is just nearby. We must remember that "the darker the night the closer it is to dawn". People do make mistakes in their life and its obvious, but then one should learn from them. As I say Life is to stumble and get up!!!
