Thursday, November 23, 2006

Koi mujhe job dila do bhai!

These days i am busy reading Times Accent, browsing timesjobonline and similar sites. Nothing new in graduates searching for a job after their graduation.(Now that’s information: graduates complete graduation)But in my case, the only hitch is that I am doing so after quitting the first job!
Reasons for leaving the first job! No, my Boss wasn't a Moron! In fact he was the perfect candidate for the Ideal Boss, a rare category these days!
No, my work wasn’t hectic!...Although it attained periodic peaks in terms of timings, the frequency wasn’t too high, twice or thrice in a month!. By IT industry's standards it was quite lenient! In fact I enjoyed my brief stint in my company!
But I have this uncanny ability of entangling myself into tricky situations from a vantage position! The reason for my quitting the job was that i wanted to do my PG as soon as possible!. I ignored the simple fact that one needs to clear entrance exams for doing so and if you don’t clear it you have to ensure that it doesn’t impact your career path. And so in order to gain time I quit my job and started preparing for the toughest exam in the world CAT! This was very reason I couldn't post during the past 1 and a half-month. Not that there are many people visiting this blog! But who cares, I write for myself! Anyways the point is I am back!
As far as preparation was concerned it was better than my BE exams. I was confident to conquer the toughest exam in the world. But bacche this is CAT, famous for its unpredictability! The first shock after seeing the paper was that I had to attempt only 75 question in 150 mins. Not really a shock is it?. The second surprise was that there were 5 options instead of traditional 4. Quite a reasonable trade-off!
But these trivial changes were not going to affect me! I was ready! I started off slowly! Paced myself beautifully! Even Rahul Dravid would have been proud of me! But I got hooked in the end! I attempted 2 ques in the last 25 mins! Despite this unpardonable offence I thought I fared well! I had the slightest of chance! Came home and had a nice sleep! Relieved from the constant one and the half-month preparation!
And then started the traumatic experience! As the preliminary cutoff's and the solution started making headlines on the various sites, my faint hopes started vanishing and for the first time I truly realized how the people onboard "Titanic" would have felt! A journey supposed to be memorable experience became a disaster. A dream ended in a debacle. For the first time the realization that my career is in limbo struck me!. For the first time i realized how happy go lucky nature i was. For the first time I started doubting my decision of quitting the job! For the first time I started thinking of being serious in my life!
Perhaps I had miscalculated! Perhaps I had overestimated my gray cells! Anyway, this failure has thought me a lot of things! I gonna try more harder and more smarter in whatever I do! (CAT hone ke baad it doesnt matter much, but still I'l keep this learning ! :))
I am thankful to the almighty and the CAT paper setters for that!! Long Live CAT! And long live CAT Aspirants! Hope it brings smile to your face one-way or other!
But for the time being please provide me a job! ha ha [;)]