I dont remember much about my childhood it was only when only when i joined coaching for CPET exams i came into senses. One day i was just sitting in class room in coaching institue and thinking what is my goal in life and why i am sitting here.
Then my consensus told me that your goal is to get through CPET exams so that you can get your degree in good college and secure your future. I tried and gave my best and finally got through CPET and got CSE in REC Hamirpur.
That day dad was very happy and told that now your future is very much secured and now you dont need to do any thing. Just go to college and after 4 years you will be an successful engineer and you dont have to put any efforts. I was pretty excited to hear that and thought life is bed of roses now.
So here i am REC Hamirpur, place of my dreams and jubiliant about my future ahead.Slowly things started moving prettty fast and went through serious ragging period. Finished first semester with 76% marks which was much above my expectations. I was very glad and thought what ever dad told me was correct. I dont need to put any further efforts.
But there is a saying "Life comes back very hard at you even if u slack a bit" and thats exactly what happened in next semester and got meagerly 69%. Now thngs were taking u turn. Bed of roses now turned to bed of thorns.
"Tough times dont last but tough peopole do" i wanted to prove the same. And here i am in 3rd semester scoring 75% marks again. So for me life has always been full of ups and down. So i learnt one lesson that day "Life is not bed of roses and it will never be" so you need to move on.
From that point i consistenly got good marks in each semester hoping that i will get good degree and finally be placed in good company... and i started dreaming..
But bang and my dreams shattered ......Our college was closed undefinitely due to uncontrolled events and suddenly TPO calls our batch and says that since college was closed for 3 months so it will have severe impact on placements... and here i am graduated from college still dont have jop in hand. I used to think even if i get 10k per month job i will be very happy.
Had lot of dreams so came to bangalore in search of a job and thank god within a month i got a job and moved to chennai.Worked there for 3 months but was not happy with work and felt some thing was missing..
One more change..................................
So once again i was busy doing thought processing at Marina beach. I told myself "hemant you have good job,good salary,good friends... everything is fine so what is missing now" . After introspection my heart replied that i am not happy with the work i am doing.
If i do some quality work then i will happy.
So my heart told me hemant you need to change your job. Hearing my hearts advice i came to bangalore working in Tavant tech for 2 years. Worked at Tavant tech. and met some of the most amazing people and they helped me in ups and downs. And thats how my career started moving.
Things were going smoothly and again i went into comfort zone and again "Life is bed of roses"
On one week end i was sitting at home and thinking what shall i do next? I have good job,good technical skills,good salary,good bike what else i want? nothing right???
But suddenly my heart woke up again and said "how much are you earning and is that enough for you and your family?" and you know what was the answer.. yes it was i am earning peanuts. Is there stability in your profession.You remember there was IT slow down in 2002-2003 and thousands of skilled employees were laid off.....
I literally started shivering and i told that "Yes you are right.What if i am laid of at some point.This is one of the hard hitting facts about corporate world.. as long as you are billable you are good else u are worthless. So no need to get emotional about the comany"
One more change.................................. i need to earn more money.
So i shifted to Techspan in Bangalore which paid higher than market. Life again started moving smoothly and had lot of money to spend or save.
Things were going fine suddenly i realized that almost 90% of my friends are in US or UK and earning handsome money. it will take me years to save the same amount of money which they save in few 2-3 months.
One more change..................................
So once again i was busy doing thought processing sitting in my office at 11 PM in night and here is what my heart asked me "hey hemant tell me some thing are you less qualified? are you less skilled? are you inferior to some one? if no then why are you sitting here and all your friends sitting at some other corner of the world"
I said no not at all.... and i moved to US. Earning decent salary as compared to what i was earning in India. Its only three months since i have moved here and slowly but surely some thing has started pinching me again... i dont know what it is and i need to figure it out.
Dont know where i am heading but i can expect some thing coming my way... lets see what it is.
But one thing i have realized that "For it to be its up to me........ and i need to make it happen"
Then my consensus told me that your goal is to get through CPET exams so that you can get your degree in good college and secure your future. I tried and gave my best and finally got through CPET and got CSE in REC Hamirpur.
That day dad was very happy and told that now your future is very much secured and now you dont need to do any thing. Just go to college and after 4 years you will be an successful engineer and you dont have to put any efforts. I was pretty excited to hear that and thought life is bed of roses now.
So here i am REC Hamirpur, place of my dreams and jubiliant about my future ahead.Slowly things started moving prettty fast and went through serious ragging period. Finished first semester with 76% marks which was much above my expectations. I was very glad and thought what ever dad told me was correct. I dont need to put any further efforts.
But there is a saying "Life comes back very hard at you even if u slack a bit" and thats exactly what happened in next semester and got meagerly 69%. Now thngs were taking u turn. Bed of roses now turned to bed of thorns.
"Tough times dont last but tough peopole do" i wanted to prove the same. And here i am in 3rd semester scoring 75% marks again. So for me life has always been full of ups and down. So i learnt one lesson that day "Life is not bed of roses and it will never be" so you need to move on.
From that point i consistenly got good marks in each semester hoping that i will get good degree and finally be placed in good company... and i started dreaming..
But bang and my dreams shattered ......Our college was closed undefinitely due to uncontrolled events and suddenly TPO calls our batch and says that since college was closed for 3 months so it will have severe impact on placements... and here i am graduated from college still dont have jop in hand. I used to think even if i get 10k per month job i will be very happy.
Had lot of dreams so came to bangalore in search of a job and thank god within a month i got a job and moved to chennai.Worked there for 3 months but was not happy with work and felt some thing was missing..
One more change..................................
So once again i was busy doing thought processing at Marina beach. I told myself "hemant you have good job,good salary,good friends... everything is fine so what is missing now" . After introspection my heart replied that i am not happy with the work i am doing.
If i do some quality work then i will happy.
So my heart told me hemant you need to change your job. Hearing my hearts advice i came to bangalore working in Tavant tech for 2 years. Worked at Tavant tech. and met some of the most amazing people and they helped me in ups and downs. And thats how my career started moving.
Things were going smoothly and again i went into comfort zone and again "Life is bed of roses"
On one week end i was sitting at home and thinking what shall i do next? I have good job,good technical skills,good salary,good bike what else i want? nothing right???
But suddenly my heart woke up again and said "how much are you earning and is that enough for you and your family?" and you know what was the answer.. yes it was i am earning peanuts. Is there stability in your profession.You remember there was IT slow down in 2002-2003 and thousands of skilled employees were laid off.....
I literally started shivering and i told that "Yes you are right.What if i am laid of at some point.This is one of the hard hitting facts about corporate world.. as long as you are billable you are good else u are worthless. So no need to get emotional about the comany"
One more change.................................. i need to earn more money.
So i shifted to Techspan in Bangalore which paid higher than market. Life again started moving smoothly and had lot of money to spend or save.
Things were going fine suddenly i realized that almost 90% of my friends are in US or UK and earning handsome money. it will take me years to save the same amount of money which they save in few 2-3 months.
One more change..................................
So once again i was busy doing thought processing sitting in my office at 11 PM in night and here is what my heart asked me "hey hemant tell me some thing are you less qualified? are you less skilled? are you inferior to some one? if no then why are you sitting here and all your friends sitting at some other corner of the world"
I said no not at all.... and i moved to US. Earning decent salary as compared to what i was earning in India. Its only three months since i have moved here and slowly but surely some thing has started pinching me again... i dont know what it is and i need to figure it out.
Dont know where i am heading but i can expect some thing coming my way... lets see what it is.
But one thing i have realized that "For it to be its up to me........ and i need to make it happen"
