It’s like you’re in a high-powered sports convertible. It’s careering at high speed. For some reason, the steering wheel is locked in position and the gas pedal has been pressed to the floor. Nothing you can do about either. And yes…in the distance, you see the edge of this ravine…fast approaching. Its simple…I’m supposed to jump out…but am frozen…in fear. Now that’s just one of the feelings I’ve had in the last week or so…for obvious reasons…its placement season. Times of uncertainty…second-guessing myself…high stress. Realized it’s mainly coz of the myriad parallel trains of thoughts in my head...what do I want to do? What’ll make me happy…wish I had a clue...did I get that nickname right or what!
First, an update on G6 (I’d tell u what that means…but then I’d have to kill you) and its ‘extended’ family. Sachin…Infy…ES; Koshie…Wipro…IT Strategy Consulting; Vishal & Clint…Citi…IT & Ops; Shammak…KPMG…Senior Consultant; Soups...Apollo/Godrej…Marketing; Jyoti…Tavant…you’ll read abt that one in the papers ;)
A recap of placement week…from the perspective without a clue. Started with infy…interviewed twice…second time at 1am…liked the idea…but didn’t get offered the role I’d be interested in. next in line…had 3 interviews lined up for Virtusa, ibm and cognizant. Had a good time in all of those…the panels liked what they heard… offers from all of them. Enjoyed the ibm interview the most…why? The first question I got was “if I said that Steve Waugh is a better bat than Sachin, what would you say? Make a consultant’s argument” J Weighed the roles…passed up a higher pay with V for some brand equity and role. Picked CTS; Assistant Manager – Business Development.
Agonized endlessly over the veracity of my decision…interviewed with a couple of others…realized the pay didn’t matter to me if the role wasn’t up to scratch. the process has been mindnumbing…have regained some of my balance though…made the right decision…this is just the beginning and there’s plenty to do…if I were me…I’d back me… ;)
6 comments:
Had read this somewhere...
"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be"
yunhi.. shared re!
Keep up the spirits high!
Wish you good luck...
realized the pay didn’t matter to me if the role wasn’t up to scratch.
Now we are talking.From my humble(/inexperienced) perspective you couldn't be more clued in.
oye...this post helped me heaps..thanks..:) (for the gazillionth time this month???)...and by the way... u were right..
- me
anshu...thanks for the reminder :)
educated: guess thats why common sense ain't so common
me: will send u an acct no. for u to wire royalty fees to ;) and what was i right abt?
tch tch...wire royalty...
"there are some things money cant buy... " and as u wud know i still dont have my credit card! ;)
- me
congrats!
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