Reap the days of delay

September 30, 2008

As days roll, so does your call date evade you. This day, that age your seniors finished their training and were inducted into projects. But you are still waiting for a single call, courier, and mail from your recruiter as a ray of hope at the end of dark tunnel. This is the situation with many of the engineering graduates of 2004-2008 batch, who were short listed by IT majors and are facing delay in joining the organization due to economic crisis that history is sure to record with black letters. You would even derive an expression which confirms proportionality between sensex crash and your hope. Who is to be blamed?
To add more to your worries, the constant nagging questions from your neighbors and relatives about your call date dries more of your spirit of hope and confidence. The worried expression of your parents devastates the already ruined expectations. It seems as if the entire world has started to press you down at the time when you were about to unfurl your wings after a long time of careful preparations. Every individual will give you a vague counsel which will lead you to astray from your goal and cause frustrations. What to do? How to spend the time? When would I be called? What to say about the delay in DOJ when asked by others? How to give peace of mind to my anxious parents? These questions would be haunting you often. Here are some of the ways I follow and wanted to share with you. As I am an engineering graduate with discipline as information technology, so my activity would be oriented towards information technology, but you may alter it according to your discipline and situations, as our goal is same.


## I keep in touch with my organization HR team regularly. I contact them first to clarify about the rumors and then I forward it to my friends. Thus you can avoid unnecessary panics. Some times they might even suggest you to learn about some technologies which you might feel useful in your future job.
## I stay in touch with my friends, share with them my time. This is the juncture of life when they would need you much. Your kind and encouraging words will boost their confidence. We can make best use of the many communities like yahoo groups, orkut, etc for this purpose.
## I help my parents with their household chores and office duties in whatever small way as possible. Now is the time you can devout much of your time to your family, with persons who love you more than their life.
## I spend time to update my knowledge in many other fields which I missed due to the hectic education schedule of the past five years (12th + 4 yrs B.E). You can even closely watch the happenings in politics, stock market, film industry, etc. One day it may make you a worthy consultant.
## I devout some time to develop my hobby of writing short stories and reading novels. One day or the other you would surely master the art.
## If finance is a problem for you, your family needs your assistance then you can do part time jobs. But the real problem is, when the employer finds you to be an engineering graduate with good academic track record, he will be unwilling at first. But with your earnest approach you could secure the job.
## If finance is not a problem to you, then you could undertake courses which would be useful for your career and higher education. But if you believe you can self learn it, then you have more than sufficient resources and materials available over net provided by many noble open source people. I follow the later. Moreover many think course to be technical ones like J2EE, .NET, etc. You can also learn languages like French, German, etc and other non technical related ones which would enhance your future career.
## You can also devout your time for volunteer services and learn many things about society, people attitude, group work, planning, etc in real time environment. You can practice " Serving humanity is serving god ".
## If you are good at human handling and business management, you can gather some of your friends, start a small level business or project like developing web sites, applications, etc and thus earn while you gain valuable experience. Currently I am in the analysis phase of this step doing feasibility study.

Thus there are thousand ways for a person who wills, not even one for a hopeless. Life in words of Swami Vivekananda is “the tendency of the unfolding and developing of a being under circumstances tending to press it down”. So friends I just wanted to share with you this thought and appeal you to be filled with this outlook only

“Past is experience, present is experiment and future is expectation. Put your experience in the experiment to achieve the expectations “.

All the best for the sooner arrival of your call date!

Tipped by your friend,
Kanagasabai S

Auto Win-Win Theory

Honk, honk, honnnnnnnnnnnnk………….sound from the auto brought me to heels as it was already late to start for my destination. After lot of hurdles and tensions of last minute check ups, I boarded the Chennai’s most distinguished transport, which is much hyped about its fares and driver’s behavior. As usual on the way I forced out a genteel conversation with the punctual auto driver who generally remains silent. After touching many topics on day to day affairs, I gently inserted the subject of article in The Hindu on how to handle auto drivers which was published few days before with great amount of cautious and well balanced words. He accepted the views of passengers, but exposed the other part of reality.

Auto drivers too are conned by passengers and also ill treated. Some persons board auto and ask to be dropped in front of complexes. When they reach destination, they suddenly realize that they have misplaced their wallet, ask driver to wait for some time at the gate (as in many complexes autos are not allowed inside) to fetch money and slip through the other gate. He says this type monetary damage too can be put up with, but what to do for their life and social security problems? Autos are the most easiest and unproblematic vehicle to be hired in city. So they become easily the transport medium for miscreants and criminals without the knowledge of driver. In the end these drivers are harassed by police for no fault of theirs in the name of investigation. Today even some women passengers provide nightmarish experiences for auto drivers. The crooks in the guise of womanhood force them to part with their money by threatening with woman harassment complaints. He lamented that there is no proper law, consortium or government set up to guard their welfare, but only present to fix the meter charges!

After hearing his part of discussion, I rebuked back “Then you mean we have to accept the harassment on both sides silently?” He replied back with the lines of an economist theory which he read from one of the news articles and follows. “You are father of two sons and have brought a cake for them. Both of them want to have a bigger share of it, then how could you satisfy both? Simple, just lay the constraint that, let elder son cut the cake into two pieces and youngest choose his piece of cake from them. Automatically justice will be done for both.”
After hearing these lines and grasping its content, I realized that we had reached our destination, Have You?

Tipped by,
Kanagasabai S