i had no clue what i will be taking up as a career till two years back... was a science student in school with maths and biology as options... chose both of them and today i am not a engineer or a doctor or anything related to the same... y i say engineer n doctor is coz those are the basic professions thought of when one is in school and then later in life u decide that what u want to specialize in... well, in graduation had botany, chemistry and computer applications... a course that you take for three years and still doesn't take you anywhere... as you are still stuck with the same question as three years back... that what career will i take... :)
so, now i decide to take CAT, so that i can enter a good B school and may be then i can know where i will reach... coz till now i know that it is not me who will be deciding wht will be my career fate... so i start taking preparatory classes and start studying for the same... and find that i have not made to any of the B school as i have not made any near to the cut off percentile... so the year after grad, i take a break and again prepare... and i foresee a similar fate as last year... so luckily or coincidentally, i also think of a backup plan - now, i have also filled a small B school form with a good brand name attached with it... but till the end i am very unsure of joining it...
in the meantime, i also get a part time job offer as a student counselor for some under graduate students who have come all the way from abroad, which is a nice experience... coming back to this school thing - i take the written test, m called for the GD, then for the personal interview round... and finally get a call to join the institute... which after much thought i do... on the personal front, there is a decision to make... to leave my maa and home and settle in different city...
but i adapt to this change very nicely... staying with other four gals in the pg... adjusting in different environment... getting to know new people, with different ways of thinking and back-biting... learnt a way to handle that also... but it was good interacting with few professors who gave some interesting classes... otherwise the whole year passed while reading books/ novels sitting at the last seat of the class... multi-tasking you see...
nearing the end of the year at the institute, got to know about the placements and the work profile we would be having (which was common to all) - business development in the print industry - there was a clash actually in what i had studied and imagined what my work would be and finally getting into sales... a great disconnect between the two...
at work, it took about 3 months to understand the kind of work and the nitty-gritties involved in it... next three months were enough to apply that understanding into work and also getting to know that this is not i want to do for a longer period of time... as i thought that i have the capability to give more output to an organization in terms of the analytical and interpretation skills... so i started thinking of changing my job and that too - soon...
by this 6 months' time, the time for confirmation came... this was a one-to-one discussion with my boss, who thought that i have the capability to give more but i am not doing that... for which i told her my intent about what kind of work i would also like to do along with the sales part of the work... after this discussion, my confirmation in the company was delayed for another 3 months... this 3 months' period was also decided in a funny way... when i was discussing this with my vertical head, my branch head was also present at that point of time... so when my boss asked me of the time that i would want to take for showing my work capabilities... i said about a month's time... my branch head said take 2 months time to be on the safer side... to this my boss said... u take 3 months which was finally agreed on...
on post-thought on the same... that was a good time for me to find a new job and switch to a place where i like the work that i am doing... and it is work that is driving me to give my best to it... those 3 months when i had to prove myself... i did a good job at that... i used to communicate regularly to her about what i was doing - which i didn't do earlier... that improved a lot of situation... so when i resigned, my boss was of the opinion that i was a good employee...
i would say this little stint at that first job, was a good experience and i learnt a few pointers in professional life (on which i ll write later)...
joining the new place - second job... was a nice turn of events and that too at the right time... this i have always noticed... that i God also makes me waiting and anxious till the last point and then suddenly shows me a path which takes me to a beautiful world... its like that jungle where you can see only trees and shrubs from a longer distance and when i start traversing that path and start exploring that path with some difficulties and confusions in mind... i start seeing things as they happen... and i finally reach the right place...
this thing has always happened... i can quote hundreds of examples like that... to mention a few... after 10th i had to decide which subjects to choose... i took maths + bio, without a plan or without knowing what i wanted to do in life... as i studied that, i realized that i don't want to be an engineer or a doctor... then i had to take up some course for graduation, i chose botany, chemistry & computer applications - again without even thinking that where this will take me, by the end of the course i realized i don't want to enter into some medical research or bio technology kind of field... so then i decided to take CAT tests & enter some B school... then i was unsure about joining the institute that i later did... which in the end proved a good choice... but then i landed on a job which was not to my taste... so unsatisfied me started looking for a change... which also didn't happen very quickly and took me some time... and that now is proving a good option that i was given in life... so i can say, that i the start when i have certain confusions in life and when i want to decide quickly on that... it doesn't happen when i think of deciding it - it only happens when it has to happen... the only thing i am sure of is that... that whatever happens, happens for good and at right time too for me (touch wood)...
and i know that i have deviated from the topic that i started talking about... so now i ll continue with the story at the second job in the next post...
c ya then...
cheers...!!!
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