Happy New Year – 2012

How many of you have heard, read or watched the movie, ‘Alice in Wonderland’?  There is this famous dialogue from that very movie:

 

Cheshire Cat: There you are!

Alice: Oh, no, no. I was just wondering if you could help me find my way.

Cheshire Cat: Well that depends on where you want to get to.

Alice: Oh, it really doesn’t matter, as long as…

Cheshire Cat: Then it really doesn’t matter which way you go.

 

In the same way, if you don’t define a destination, aim, goal to yourself, you will not know where to go. You will be stranded. And stranding in life is not what one expects. There must be some meaning to the very existence of us on this planet. And in finding that purpose and living to achieve that, will be the best thing that can happen to us.

 

There are only three steps towards success:

1. Find out you goal. (Destination)
2. Plan the path or way that you want to achieve your goals. (Nature)
3. Just do it (Action).

 

The following three books will greatly influence you, in achieving your goals, if you have faith in them. Those books are ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne, ‘The Greatest Salesman in the world’ by Og Mandino and “The Magic of thinking big”.

 

The Ten Scrolls that were mentioned in the “The Greatest Salesman in the world” are mentioned below concisely:

 

Scroll 1: Today I begin a new life.

Scroll 2: I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Scroll 3: I will persist until I succeed.

Scroll 4: I am nature’s greatest miracle.

Scroll 5: I will live this day as if it is my last.

Scroll 6: Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Scroll 7: I will laugh at the world.

Scroll 8: Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

Scroll 9: I will act now.

Scroll 10:  I will pray for guidance and I will pray as a salesman.

 

Just follow these and you will be a changed person with a definite aim in your life. And secondly you will be charged to achieve what no one else has achieved earlier.

 

Action plan:

1. Plan your goals and achieve them
2. Read the books mentioned above.
3. Follow the ten scrolls listed above.

 

Wish you all a very Happy New Year – 2012.

 

 

Gutting out my Frustration!

     Long back(not very long), I was in my B. Tech dreaming of working 
in some MNC company with lots of projects, great team and under the 
guidance of a great manager. Finally on the D-day, first interview and 
the company was CTS. I was not selected. I thought probably my utterly 
poor subject skills let me down. Then came Infosys. I knew that Infosys 
HR policies concentrated around the soft skills, so I prepared well and 
cleared the interview. Then I entered the Mysore campus with sprawling 
lawns, innovative and creative, spic-clean buildings and roads melted 
my heart. Probably just stepping into the campus itself was a kind of 
achievement in itself. 

             The Training started with Soft Skills training and then it 
started with the Computer fundamentals and then with Network concepts 
and then Software Development Life Cycle and then Web Fundamentals. The 
training listed above was of Generic stream. Completely WITHOUT BIAS 
and out of PURE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTs, I was put in the batch that 
was to be trained in JAVA. The STREAM(that is what it is called), was 
more of a systematic process of eliminating/ousting the excess and the 
non-creamy layer. JAVA, UNIX, PL/SQL were taught within two fortnight.
Then came the outcry of us being trained for FINACLE(the only IBU which
 every trainee freaked out the most). Training for FINACLE started with 
Operative Accounts and later went into the Investment ID creations). At 
that moment I felt like with INFOSYS kind of training even a Ph.D., that 
requires years of study and research, could be received in a month. As 
though the Stream selection was completely of BUSINESS requirement, the 
location of Deport was also based on that criteria. I got Mysore(Out of 
pure luck). Then they said that Chennai required 5 folks urgently. 
I planned to move to Chennai. But out of clouds came the call for folks 
to Bangalore and with pure luck I was moved to Bangalore.
               Coming to Bangalore and working here gave me completely 
a different perspective than what I imagined in the first paragraph 
or rather my graduation. I started working on Structured Products.(Now 
don’t ask me to explain what it is.) Then I was asked to work in 
Automation of Mutual Funds(without any training.) Thank god the 
project lasted just two weeks and I was thrown into the Manual 
testing of MF. Then I worked on FI-API(web-interface of Finacle). 
Then I worked on EQUITIES for a short while before being thrown 
back to SP again. Thank god that the Team support was great and 
had a great mentor as my TL and ML. Then came the Business 
requirement for FI-API test planning. A pretty decent work helped 
me get a good appraisal. Next comes the SWIFT(Society for Worldwide 
Interbank Financial Transactions). Worked close to 10 hrs., 5 days 
a week and 4 weeks a month(this is far more than the average SE work). 
The SWIFT was on EQUITIES and BONDs. Now am being introduced the 
AUTOMATION again.(Both Capture and replay). It’s not that I hate 
AUTOMATION, but it’s the technical work that bothers me. The next 
time I might be thrown to work on OPTIONS and FUTURES or some other 
project that I’ve hardly heard of. The team, the TL/ML, the manager, 
the mentor, the company, the atmosphere/environment everything is 
great. Only that there is a mismatch between my interest and the 
kind of work am allocated to. Probably next year will be my last 
in this SOFTWARE INDUSTRY. 

Al-vida na kehna.

Started my Journey today!

You all must be guessing that the journey was probably towards a place on a map. Nopes, i’ve started my journey towards my goals. Planned 65% of the journey. Yet to complete the planning and strategy the remaining. I even wrote a poem to commemorate this occasion. Here it goes:

Am a warrior,

without a barrier,

no heaven above,

no earth below,

no opponent ahead,

no ruler behind,

Ready to take on the World,

With only VICTORY in my mind!

 

Thanks to my friends who are there to support me.

Would come up with my adventures soon. :)