Monday, 1 June 2009

N2N : 5 - A hi5 and where am I?

Today is June 1, it is been 5 years since I started my career as software engineer. Yea.. if you say in corporate language, I completed hi5 today.

The great thing in these 5 years is that, I have got chances to work with people of different kind... people of different mindsets and thoughts! People who are technically very sound! People who are good at management! People who are committed, dedicated and put long extra hours (unlike me..haha)! People who are workaholic and stay @ office itself (Sorry, I am on the other end of the sphere)! People who are extremely smart in their work! people who are lazy to do a bit of useful work ! people who are very process oriented!.... people with different work style and abilities!

There are people, who build their career by putting lots of effort, hard work and dedication ! There are another set of people, who build their career by amplifying the mistakes of others! I admire and respect the first! I pity the the later..!

Anyhow, with this post I don't intend to take you to all that philosophical stuffs... I just wanted to thank all my colleagues, who supported me during this long 5 years... Thanks for all the good and bad things!

Thanks a lot to all my colleagues for your support, help and criticism !

Thanks a lot to the mentors, who guided me when I was a newbie... Thank you to those good leaders and managers, for their motivation and inspiration... Thanks to the worst managers for teaching me, how a good manager shouldn't be! Thanks to those techie guys for sharing your knowledge.. Thanks so much to all others for every good and bad things! I learned from both. :-)

If you ask me, how did I feel last 5 years? To be honest I don't believe this is a great rocket science job... Most of the time, I feel so stupid and dump working in s/w field! There are lot of better things on earth :-)

What have I learned during these long 5 years ? Hmm... I won't say, I haven't learned anything.. Of course, I have learned lot of stuffs.. But the question is, what difference it make if I haven't learned it? May be nothing big!


Haa.. I should not criticize too badly about s/w field.. After all, I earn my living out of it. Yea..
And I am still doing all these dump stuffs, for that... You know something, money has got the great power of convincing your all other needs. It is due to the same reason, that a big percentage of talented young mind of our country keep stuck to this industry..!


Hi5 is not end of this dump work; it goes on..! Colleague changes, company changes, project changes... but life goes on in this corporate world...

Some times I feel, this whole thing is like a pyramid; and every one try to climb to top of pyramid, though you know it can accommodate only very less at top... and you ask me where am I? I am no way different.. :-) I am also climbing the ladders of same pyramid... climbing to the top with out knowing what is awaiting at the top!

Still long way to go..! So many hurdles to cross...! I hope it would be exciting..! I'll do better than my best, to cross the hurdles and turn out everything well... I have confidence in me.. and I know there is a long way to go !!!