Saturday, May 13, 2006

College To corporate - A perfect Transition

Hmm.. thy ended my life at the constr site and i was all set to take up new challengez (was there one ?) at accenture. I came to know abt my location on one fine sunday, while i was busy playing a cricket match at the JRTCC (Jubilee Road Terrace Cricket Ground). ICC was one of our partners until it decided to split and venture out as a new governing body.. huh copy cats..
Lady luck decided to persist with me for some more time i guess, as some ppl got placed at mumbai too. Mumbai is one of the scariest places i wud have ever wanted to be. For ppl who dunno, its one of the places where u just need to board the train and when u are sure that urs is the next stop.. march forth and just stand wherever u are.. u don need to take any extra effort to even move ur legs.. u'll be automatically 'ousted'. Thanks to the 'decent' mumbai crowd...

Was really excited abt going to banglore , abt new job , settling there and stuff. Finally i boarded the 'shatabdhi' express in the morning, just like the college days. Arrived at the
stat ion just 5 minutes bfore the trainz departure and managed to sneak into first class a/c compartment(pun intended !!) . Hey me not Richie Rich. When ur company pays Rs 10000/- for relocation, u can even afford a Chartered flight !!

Sep 1 2004, i was at banglore.. and my IT life started there with a bang.. We went to a 5 star hotel for induction. I was too engrossed with all other things except the induction pgm as such. Food, girls who had come along and joined with us... and wat not..

Right then.. i needed to find a shelter for myself. This is where i had serious diffculties coz all my friends who were there had already got settled there and it was tough to separate them. Finally a charisma in the form of my mother made it all possible. She had got me a small room in a home at jp nagar wihtout any advance and hidden costs ;-) .. I was pretty lucky indeed, when compared to some of my mates who were staying in a so called "PG" with bunker beds, one on top of the other. Most of the times rats and cockroaches were the occupants of the bottom most bed!! And food ... last thing u'd ever ask for in a pg. Juz horrible. Sambar tastes like paal payasam and rasam , well no comments.. I'd rather leave it to the bangloreans who 'might' read this un.

Initial days at office were all fun filled, as i was into training. My word, the trainers were all really amazing and i found myself writing code at ease.. Could clearly benchmark the difference between my college profs and the corporate ppl. To wrap it all , "My college to corporate transition was indeed wholeheartedly complete and i earned my self a title 'Junior Software Engineer' :-)"...

The Journey of life continues........

5 comments:

Karthik said...

Kittu ......... NEeyuma ?? Sooper da !! BTw, dont write ur company name .. If u decide to post something more "controversial" later - u cud be sued for libel, ur company cud be threatened and what not !! Aneeways keep writing .. And a final tip - dont make the stories too personal !!

BadhriNath said...

A mail chugs along... And I would say the same comment posted by karthik. dont reveal company name...

Raj said...

hmmm...a good start dude...as karthik says make them a lil less personal...good luck!!

Girish said...

keep going da.... interesting...

Anonymous said...

i would like to comment same as kartik....but hey im a banglorean...food not dat bad yaar!!!!
dont put us down :(