Oasis to Mirage

A Fantastic article mailed to me by a friend.....

'' I would like to express my transition from real freedom to assumed freedom. I am here talking about my transition from my college to the booming IT industry. I would like to pour my one year experience of the so called glamorous and fun filled IT industry.

We used to wander those spacious heat filled open grounds and dirty class rooms with just 50Rs. in pocket and plan the whole week with that budget. But now we wander along the well cleaned, fully air-conditioned corridors with about five to six credit cards in our pocket planning where to swipe the cards. Credit cards eagerly waiting to eat next month's salary. I can't believe that it was just one year before that the 50Rs. seemed to be lakhs now, lakhs seems to be nothing.

College canteen, Tea shops were the favorite hot spots where we spent hours together, having a hearty chat with our buddies forgetting the whole world. But now Cafe Day, Quickies, Baristas have taken those places. What a coffee cost 2.5Rs last year has now gone up to 50Rs a cup.

Those precious days where we used to laugh for nothing, while chatting or while playing or even when you fail in your paper because you have got 30 marks for a empty paper. But now you rarely smile except the smile for the forward you just received or the smile to your PM to impress him.

Hate ness and Ego were the words you haven't heard in those days. You smash or hit your friend for some reason and the next moment you walk along him with hands on his shoulders. But now you doesn't like the guy
sitting beside you because he's getting a salary 10k greater that you or he's always being appreciated by your PM. True friends are hard to find here

You join the company with the resignation day in the mind, is this loyalty. Don't mind I have also planned my resignation date.

You have seen the late nights only on the eve of the exam, where you rely on your friend to wake him/ her at night 1 or 2. And how can we forget those last minute tensions in exam, you remember that only just before entering the exam you find that you have forgotten to revise a important question that your friend suggested that it will surely appear on this exam. You rush back and flip those Xeroxed pages with tension. But today you work at least 2 days a week till 1 or 2 in the night to deliver something to your unknown client who is at US or UK. You are aimlessly typing at the useless word document that your PM asked you to finish with his tailor made smile. Loads of tension with calls from home, with your eye lids eager to kiss each other and you promise them
to allow it a little later, cursing Bill Gates for inventing MSWord.

Writing all this to celebrate my first anniversary at this field. It seems I have been in my own desert where I have realized that I am moving from the warmth ness of the Oasis to chase a mirage. A mirage that promises a lot of thing, but still it's just a mirage. When I turn back I can find thousands chasing that mirage with a ID card around
their neck. I wish all the best for them. "

It s so apt for all of us...Wish you all a gr8 life ahead and a happy successful one year life in IT industry in whatever company you may be...Dunno how long we will be in contact, how long we will laugh
together in phone...how long we will fight for silly things...and how often we are going to meet...But I will surely cherish the memories I had with each one of you..

Life After SAKEC

Hey All, I am finding it irresistible to enter this wonderful world of blogging... So better late then never :)
After watching the movie Rang De Basanti... i still remember the kind of laughter I had on hearing the dialog from Aamir Khan aka DJ " Campus ke is taraf ham zindagi ko nachate hai aur campus ke us taraf zindagi hame" (On this side of campus we dictate life where as on the other side of campus life dictates us). But i had never imagined that that same thing will happen to all of us... Life was so good, relaxing and fun during the college days.. no tensions, no monday morning blues. It was like go to college and u would be totally relaxed but now its completely opposite. Altough I am still in college, but here there are much more responsiblities, tensions assignment due dates, submissions and ofcourse job. So much pressure....sometimes it makes me wonder when is all this gonna stop..but on second thoughts the fact is its just the start of the thing called Life...

While in USC, sleeping before midnight is jst like a dream come true and so is sleeping more than 6 hours during weekdays....the burden of assignments and projects make the saying Aaram is Haaram true... apart from this the usual cooking, cleaning and other issues harass you to the core. Also when there is no burden of assignment the oncampus jobs suck the sleep of you. And you cant ignore them too as they are your source of survival. But overall its a really the best experience of life you can get so far. Being Independent, responsible mature and more important have to take imp decisions on your self. Staying wid roomies can really be fun

Life in SAKEC (my engg college)was so good..... i really miss those days.....and will miss them forever coz i know they are never gonna come back.