Life is full of surprises.. Many of which i received on my journey from being an engineer to a banker ='Bhayankar'(circumstances or destiny or same, whatever u call)... Sharing with you all few such moments...While in college, just like any other engineer dream of an MNC, lavish lifestyle, fashionable chicks, separate cubicle and what not... I too had certain expectations from my college degree and after getting placed with one of the reputed s/w firms I was like any other guy who would relieve all his tensions and w'd prepare himself to be part of one of the highly paid sector. But for a software engineer, how life could remain unbugged :) Dwindling economy and being part of an average institute became the reason for such a bug... the latter bug was now inherent in me and the former one was more of warning not being just restricted to me(it hit the world). A s/w engg. certainly keeps a check of warnings.. So did I... the frustration of not being called by the company and sitting idle at home made me apply to all those companies to which I was eligible. Later, Somehow I managed to get a contractual job in Delhi. Life changed for me (the other way)… The job I was in, provided me with a separate office (best part)…but… in hospital (worst part). Actually the project I was working on was for northern railways and so I was posted to a client site... but every new beginning leads to end of few things… it all ended... no frnz... At least in my vicinity... no more late night fun... no more LOVE (saddest part)...no workmates (I was alone at the office-no ending of the worst part)...
I need to wake up early to avoid the packed up buses and delay in travelling time and that needed practise as it was never my cup of tea.. But Chandragupta says ' every activity becomes a habit once it is practised continuously for 21 days... how could I be so punctual? Every 20th day was a delay in practise and I was again back to day 1..lolz.. Dogging behind buses… waving hands… straining my vocal chords to fumble 'auto-auto'... i recalled... somewhere i heard of the word 'struggle'...m i in this phase.. yes i was..
And that definitely reminded me of my workplace.. 'hospital'.. my job involved almost al kinds of management work but the difficult task was to deal with the pensioners(govt ones).. to explain them about the benefits they would get with this project and to make them register for this service was really challenging…
Some were polite..Many were aggresive(age-effect).. few were smiling.. but all blessed(Outcome of my respect towards them)... there were times when they used to give infinite advises, shared their experience(few even cried- d world is really cruel esp wid these old people) and some were in joyful mode to hold a respectful tag of senior citizens :)
By this time i had enough of practise to deal with them and i became sure that i could pamper my father-in-law very well in near future :) (one of the compliments i received from them)
My days passed and i gave up the possibility of getting a call from the company i was placed in(cruel recession's toll).. i decided to be part of the largest bank of India, State Bank to which I got through. My parents were happy about their son getting a govt job in this tough time and I was happy to start expecting something out of my life(every new thing fascinates you that way!)..
But how could I forget my each friend calling me 'sarkari babu'... I had no comments to this comment.. i just passed a smile thinking about my transition from a software engineer to a sarkari babu
Life is full of surprizes...!!!
Did my new job fulfilled my desires? were there more surprises in store for me? Answers in upcoming post... :)
