N2N : 1 - Null, The Absolute Beginning !

NULL to NOW

I would first tell you what "NULL to NOW" is... I just wanted to put together all the crazy incidents, thoughts and the path in my career life from an absolute beginning to now...

PS: I have tried my best to avoid criticizing or pinpointing anyone, who has been a part in my way here... Still my dear colleagues, If you feel, something pointing about you, it is not intentional or meant to be so.. I am just expressing myself...

Chapter 1 : Null, The Absolute Beginning !!!

Like any other newbie, who comes out of an engineering college to a corporate world, me too had lot of energy, enthusiasm, expectations on that day.. lots of passion to start a good career. I woke up too early that day and with great enthusiasm... precisely @ 6.45AM, which is a kind of too early by my own standards ;) . Then got ready in fully formal dresses & shoe and started to the company with a file having all my certification and offer letter. You know, the file in my hand was all, what I earned in life so far, with 21 years of education...!

All this days after I get offer letter, I was imagining about this day.. I was expecting a big organization with all hi-fi facilities... When I reached in front of the office, I realized it is a very small organization in a double floor building with limited infrastructure and around one hundred people. And that is where I started my career as so called a software engineer... As saying, 'First impression is the best impression'!! ...and I did not let the spark, energy and enthusiasm to get collapsed..

The next few months were training period... you know, how would one feel to sit in a training classes on the first few days of corporate life.. After all we were fed up with sitting in classes, seminars and sections for a long period of 4 years in the name of getting an engineering graduation.. I had to say, it was quite boring (Sorry, my mentors & trainers, but that was fact..) The training in the first few months dispatch the fresh spark and energy with in us... They taught us .NET, Frameworks, S/W testing, Configuration management tools, Java, J2EE, blah blah blah. (To be honest, I don't remember the rest.) ..

May be the training organizers thought, they could inject all of this into our small brains with a one month training sessions.. But one thing they haven't thought is, so many lectures, professors and teachers attempted to do the same for years in our college/school life and failed... And in real fact, how far we learned from those training is always a question mark, who on earth knows.. I've never tried to judge that.

But there was something else I am learning above all these sleepy sessions.. That is the helping, motivative, humble and down to earth characters of some senior colleagues, even in the situation where they don't require to be doing so... Until that, I never expected people in the rank of CEO, Founders etc, would come get introduced to fresher-trainee in person, have lunch together or personal talks! That is something which make you more comfortable, especially when you are in a new corporate world. And along with that, it also gives more responsibility, by having a feeling like you are watched by all..! May be it was just a business tactics, and this outcome was, what the company exactly wanted to happen.. But anyhow I liked the humbleness and helping behavior of some people, even when they are at heights..! I just captured that to my life as well.

All together, it was a fresh beginning to the world of software.. ! All the electronics and instrumentation circuit diagrams learned during 4 year life of electronics and instrumentation engineering has been thrown away and here the first step into a new world. !

The absolute beginning to the world of corporate life.. !!!

Next chapter of this series @ N2N : 2 - The Cloudy Days !

Some Good Quotes

Sometimes, smile can be like a drop of water in a desert..!

You smile, the whole world smile with you !

you cry, and you cry alone !

It is dangerous to weep inside your mind,
The open tears can easily be wiped away,
But the secret tears create scars in depth !!!

Silence gives rest to your mind,
And this means rest to your body,

Sometimes rest is the only medicine needed..!

Give lot of time for the improvement of yourself,
Then there will not be time to criticize others..!

:-)

That is life !

In this post, I would tell you about an ambitious boy, his admiration and dreams in his life and how he drive for that.

The boy I am talking about was in his early teenage and he lived in a small middle class family in a village. His village was so quite, calm and greenery to live a peaceful life. Like any other middle class family in India around a decade back, his home also was a combined family and all his relatives and everyone lived in the same home. Even with the financial limitations, his middle class environment provided him everything that is necessity in his life like education, dresses, good food etc.. But anything beyond necessity was just a hidden whisper in his mind that vanish very soon...

This small boy I know had the habit of dreaming an optimistic future. After all that is something he could do with out paying money. The surprising thing was that even his dreams know about his financial limitation.. the dreams were not much lavish.. his dreams were about having a more comfortable life.. something like building a small good house for them.. and buying a small car for their parents.. he had never even dreamt about being very lavish...

Days are passed.. months passed and years passed.. The boy studied hard to accomplish his dreams.. he has grown up now.. He has got a good job which earn a reasonable and good amount of money monthly..

Now his dreams were not much far from reality... He is in a position to realize his dream now. But it is then he realized that, he had lost so much during these years... The dream of the small boy, did not have much value now... He lost his parents for ever during these years.. His relatives are not living together in a combined family anymore.. they are all separated into different houses.. he is living alone with out any one's care and affection.. and his dreams does not have much values anymore..

Now he knows that is life.. Life is always been this way.. When you gain something, you loose equally or something more than it.. Life maintain an equilibrium...!!