Interim phases..........student to professional

Errr.......ummm......just thought of updating my blog.....no particular subject in mind. Its been a while since I posted something and some significant events have happened since then.

To begin with, the end. I was always fearing the phase when my BHU days ended, and when the phase arrived, I reacted just the way I had expected I would. To top it all, I was the last one to leave BHU among my classmates which, I tell you, can drive you crazy.

Then came a phase when I was just out of college and waiting to get on with my professional life. This was the phase when neighbours regularly turned up, armed with enormous volumes of advice, some really helpful and some really……interesting, to be polite!! This was a time when I fell terribly ill, just mounting the tensions on my family members who were already worried about how I would handle my life once I started working, that too as a site engineer in a company known to reward its engineers with even more challenging (read tougher) working environments when they perform well at one site!! This was a time when even I was circumspect about my future. This was a time when all the shopping done was only for me and all my whims were overlooked……I really enjoyed that preeminent status in the household!!

Then came one of the phases that can be termed as one of the punctuating points of my life. This was the time when I joined the company I had dreamt of joining ever since I started my engineering education. But I’ll tell you I wasn’t excited totally because of this reason, in fact this had faded somewhat into the background because of another prospect. The company had arranged our accommodation, during the first week of orientation, in one of the finest hotels in Chennai. For a middle class chap like me, this was like a dream!! Enjoying the facilities that the hotel provided, without having to pay for it gave me, as also most of my fellow joinees, a sense of childish excitement and a vague sense of fulfillment. I also made new friends, which was another wonderful “free gift”!!

That gave way to the time I got my posting and started working. The comforts of “the” hotel have since vanished, but the respect that I elicit out of the staff and the comments of appreciation that I bring out of my seniors more than make up for that. I have now well and truly settled into my pro-life!!

This is all friends……….just ramblings of my mind. Do feel free to add your experience to this piece. Cheers!!