.........and Life take a turn for HIM

It was year 2000 when I first noticed him. It was my first year of engineering and he was my classmate. There was nothing noticeable or specific about him except that he always wore baseball cap (I got to know the reason later- he was almost bald). He rarely communicates and seems busy in his own world. Later on we came closer through our mutual friends and we became very close friends. He was a very good and helpful human being. I am just trying to discuss the gist of his life and the difficulties he has face and the ultimate result.

 

As he passed his intermediate exams, he was unable to qualify for engineering. So he took admission in graduate course and kept trying for engineering. Finally he got admission after two years. Though he was having decent family background but he used to take tuitions for his pocket money. Everything was going fine till last exam of final year.

 

He was caught copying as an examiner notices a diagram on his calculator flap. He was found guilty and was punished for one year. He reappeared and qualified in next year. There was no campus selection for him and he was not having very good percentages so that he can try in privates. He was still taking tuitions without any surety of future. Finally, after a year we friends forced him to go to Delhi to search for job. After few interviews he was able to fetch a job at a meager salary of around 5k.

 

On his personal side, he was in love with a distant relative whose family was very rich. There was some unsaid affair between them but due to his devastated professional life he did not initiated anything. There were some indirect talks of their marriage between their families that was summarily rejected by girl's family.

 

Coming back to his job. His luck or hard work started showing colors now onwards. He switched to a client organization of his company. This was his first switch, that too just in 6 months. He soon gets an offer to visit Thailand on official visit. That was the first stamp on his passport.

 

With in a year he switched to another company, and got a chance to work onsite in Seychelles as project manager. With in a year, he became a rich person. Life started taking turns for him. The family that rejected him came back with the proposal. They are happily married now with a cute child.

 

Meanwhile he had done hair weaving and life is smiling without a cap and with family.

 

I don't know that whether it was his hard work or his luck. But one thing was sure that it was his determination.

 

Thank you Iqbal for your friendship and self-determination.

Life unplanned!!!

Life is the most important part of me. Everyone hope that his or her important part should be well planned, well mannered, well organized. But it is not the case with me. When I analyze the last 28 years of my life, I found it mostly disorganized and unplanned.

 

Born in a small town of UP, there was no proper school, so I was sent for home tuitions. I learned all the basic things there (Thank you for her!). But that cannot be all. My mother wants more; so she admitted me in a good English school in district headquarter (Etah). I was admitted in my first school at the age of 7 and directly in class 2. There was no nursery KG for me. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

Later on, I was admitted to the best school in Etah (Assisi Convent School). You may think what is disorganized here? I passed 5^th standard from my old school with good marks, but still I was admitted in 5^th in new one. It was total loss of one year. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

I passed high school from that school. Since the school was high school, I have to search for some other options. There were no good inter colleges in that city and I was not aware of many schools. I just filled the 11^th standard exam for Aligarh Muslim University, that too because of no other option. Luckily I qualified the exam and shifted to Aligarh. It may seems quite untrue to many that I was not aware of IIT till the mid of 12^th standard but that is the fact. When I came to know about top engineering college, there was no time for filling the forms. The dates were gone. A PCM student is not aware of engineering colleges and institutes. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

Left with no other option, I filled the form for AMU engineering college. This time also I was lucky. I got selected in first attempt. The most ironical thing happens when I went for admission in engineering college. Out of unawareness, my first choice was Mechanical Engineering. Anyhow, I was admitted in mechanical engineering, that too because of no other option. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

I got my choice of stream in engineering in my second year- electronics engineering. You may say it my luck or my hard work. Till mid of final year, I was not aware of my future. I was just doing engineering with out any expectations. As everyone was filling IIM form in final year, I also filled one, without any expectation. All were preparing for campus selection, and I was busy in watching movies. I qualified aptitude round for TCS campus selection. But I failed in psychometric round. That too because of two reasons: my unawareness about psychometric tests & importantly, my friends were waiting outside so as to watch 'Ek Hasina Thi' released on that day. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

I did not get selected. Still I was not sure what I had to do. One of my close friends had started preparation for CAT in Career Launcher, Delhi. So, I too started that. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

So many things happen during that coaching (most importantly, my sister's marriage was scheduled just one week ahead of my CAT exam) and I managed only 90 percentile in CAT. I got some interview calls but I was unable to convert them. Left with no other option, I went back home and enjoyed for 5 months. Then again I came back to Delhi for searching job. I got job in a call center. But I resigned after 2 months because manager behaved very rudely. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

Now my mind diverted towards public sector jobs. I came back to Aligarh and started preparing for it. I qualified many written exams but got rejected in interview. Again left with no other option. So just for time pass, I filled entrance form for AMU MBA. I got selected and started doing MBA. It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

Meanwhile I had appeared in an entrance examination for the current organization I am working with. I got selected. I quit my MBA and joined BHARATIYA RESERVE BANK NOTE MUDRAN (P) LIMITED. Don't get baffled by the 'P' in its name. It's a long story. For information, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India and performs sovereign function of printing Indian currency. Having honors in every stages of my education (82% in X, 76% in XII, 78% in B.Tech), I got job after 2 and a half-year.  It seems so unplanned and disorganized J.

 

If you ask my future plans, I want to be a businessman. Let's see what would happen in my unplanned and disorganized life.