Anniversary

I should have made this post a week back; anyway, I will do it now. The 6^th day of this month marked the anniversary of joining my first job. 6^th June 2005, I had joined the company. I was happy to join.

The 8^th day of this month marked the day of my first resignation. I am happier to leave. When I joined I didn’t expect the world, but definitely I expected more than what I got. I won’t whine about it all together again. But the work was a mess, no doubt.

Still there are things that I gained in this one year. Some of them I will treasure for the rest of my life –

• A new bunch of friends. I refuse to tag them with the rather serious sounding term of ‘colleagues’.
• A computer language called ‘Java’ which I knew existed but never learnt more than that it exists. (Don’t misinterpret it as declaring myself a Java expert; I am only much better off when compared to my earlier self.)
• A novel experience of sharing apartment with people. Being in a hostel or being at home is different. A tip here; don’t stay with too many people, don’t stay with too few. 2-3 is optimum I think.
• A city – Mumbai
• A blog - http://mumbaidays.blogspot.com/
• A website - http://geocities.com/intro_to_multimedia/
• An unexpected title of CS God. (CS = Counter Strike). Don’t laugh -:)
• An insight into how companies work. No elaboration will be entertained in this section.
• A piece of knowledge – communication skills are just too important for your work to neglect even if you are doing technical work.
• A new sense of enthusiasm for study. I think I am more motivated for a PhD than I was while leaving IIT.