Tuesday 15 April, 2008

Life has been fast and unpredictable in last few days.In the End -- Californication

Away from Blogging – b’coz of last few days in fact few months, courtesy Life. Some one said “Life is a perfect example of Life itself”. Unfolding few of the pages- don’t remember the dates can say I’m not “Subodh” or occurrence of events were so fast that dates could not find a slot in mind.

Tired from the clichéd and useless work which even a 10th grade can do – People tag it as Job Satisfaction having true or false as value but for me it was null. So decided to appear for Interviews- that phase was fulsome, in some of the face to face discussion I thought of either hitting the person on the other side of the table or to be on the polite side just get up from the seat and walk out of the room. After having gulped down lot of these I was finally selected in one and they were ready to offer me. Was very exited , came back home prepared the resignation mail and was all set to send it. Friends they are God in these conditions they stopped me, Blessed advice “Jab tak offer hath me na aa jaye Resign nai karne ka”. I did so n c Till date I didn’t get any offers from them. They rejected me on salary issues even though I mentioned in the ECTC- Negotiable. Lucky Escape!!.

Not that lucky though .Was thrown out from the project or can say from my client – Company facing financial problems resulting to downsizing. So from the luxury of having 2 jobs in hand I was reduced to none -left in shocked state and in dismay. For the first time in my IT career I was on bench and was feeling the prick, many people were thrown out , so it was tough for the HR people to get all of them placed. The Scenario was looking horrible and the chances of it getting worse were brighter. Few days from then was scheduled for a client interview – was so nervous that I screwed it up. The result was put on hold and was entitled for another round. That another round was to happen anytime basically I would be informed about it few hours or a day before. Cancelled my Megadeth show b’coz of this.

Finally had an interview and was selected, then came the news that guys selected for the project would be traveling (ONSITE) and since I was selected late for that project so till then I didn’t have the client approval to travel. 50-50 chance. Happiness came along with toppings of sadness. My head was swimming as I returned back home from office—thinking so much happened in a day- Selected for a project- Work is good- Missed onsite – May have a chance of traveling in future. That Life’s - it’s ambages has taken me everywhere and left me nowhere.

Sipping the tea and adding fumes of cigarette to the pollution thinking “Ab kya goga”, got a call from unknown number, Credit Card / Personal loan / Home loan .. hmm.. U people are gone today “Maa behan se kaam me baat nai hoga aaj”--- as I picked up the call full prepared to have a go at them “U r Traveling, bring u r passport tmrw to office” – It was my HR. O o oh .. Man I was happy called up my Parents, my friends and every one close to me..Gosh!! they were happy too.

Gave the Passport Xerox the next day, started filling the Visa , got the Visa interview dates . It took me 2 days to arrange for the Visa documents and some of the documents required were missing also. Finally got everything ready and gather as many tips required for Visa interview from people who has been thru this. My office friends told me not to go in a particular counter as the Lady there is strict and rejects VISA also and mine was scheduled in that particular counter only. I was full nervous but anyways I got my stamping. J. Before i could realize anything dates were fixed ,tickets were booked . It all happened so fast that it's sometimes hard to believe. It’s business trip so duration is very small but it’s fine for me I’m happy.

Finally I’m traveling today nite to CALIFORNIA. But as u say “Jab tak Videsh nai paunch jao tab tak tum India me hee ho”….. So guys wait for the next update. Hopefully I’ll write the next post from US.

Now time to update the City/State in orkut and photos too.....