One Year of Corporate Life

Today is 1 July, 2010. The date marks the completion of one year of corporate life for me. Since I joined Rave Technologies as my first company last year, things have changed a lot, including me. That Ghaziabad college boy is now a software developer in Mumbai. I have become more distant to my family, hence more unreachable. Until last year, I was one phone call and 4 hours away. Now, still one phone call, but 20 hours.

There are lot more things that have changed. Friends have been replaced by colleagues, seniors by mentors, teachers by managers. In college, if you don’t go to classes, you will get more time with friends, hence more fun. But here, if I don’t go to office, I will be alone, no one to be with, no one to talk. Apart from that, you can’t choose not to go to office at your will, it depends on your manager’s will. He’ll choose whether you can take a day off or not. But the more difficult and strange thing comes now. In college, you call a guy one year senior to you Sir or Mam. It looks that you are giving respect to that person, but you are doing it because you are told to do so, and that person knows it. But here, you can turn it around. The person may have as many years of experience as your age, but still you call him/her by name. It looks that you are showing no respect to him, but you truly respect him for all his knowledge and experience.

There are few more things. A few bucks given by parents for monthly expenses have changed to a bigger amount of salary, but still you find it tough to meet your expenses. The list of changes may go on, but here I leave to discuss other things for the next time…

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A New Beginning, in a New City....

Hi,greetings to all! It has been more than a month since I wrote any post here.After finishing a vigorous,very happening and crucial college life of 4 years,last few days have been a bit static,lazy and sleepy, with a sense of relief,a feeling of being without friends after so many days and some apprehensions about future life.But after roaming on those joyful and colorful paths of college life, finally life has taken a new turn from today.Today was the first day in office of Rave Technology,Mumbai,where I put my first step in the corporate world with some excitement,some pinches in the heart.

And on all these things, this city itself says a lot about it.I have passed my last 4 years nearby a metro city,the capital of India,but this another metro city has got a tons of different things in terms of lifestyle,local languages and a lot other things.A city of filmstars,businessmen and other high profile people,the city has lot of stories of success,struggle,terror burried in it. So being here gives a different feeling.You pass through the ways where some greats lingered in the past searching their ways of life during their struggle times,the roads where some terrorists fired the bullets last year,in local trains reviving the memories of 1993 blasts,but inspite of all this fright and intrigue,there is something magnetic in this city, that keeps its people attached to it, inspite of all this uproar.And now,I am going to be a part of it.

So now,back to some work, catch you all later.....