I am back :)

after a long break from blogging..

Nothing new to report from my end except that I am going back to my hometown .. Just fighting to get a job there currently. I have given a couple of interviews.. Am waiting to hear back, and the wait is killing me…..

I cannot seem to concentrate on anything  (its not as if I would concentrate a lot on the task at hand anyways, but who doesn’t love to give excuses ). I took a break from gymming for the sake of interview prepration but now even thats done. I dont know what else I should do since this is the first time I am applying on my own. i.e. not through campus. Campus placements are so much easier.

The painful process that job application is makes me sometimes regret the decision I made last year to join a company that was not in my hometown . But in my heart I know I have done the right thing. I have learnt and grown a lot after coming to this city and living on my own. It has been a nice experience even though I keep cribbing about it. Had I remained in my safety zone and never left my home, I could never have gotten this experience.

Anyways, regrets or not I just hope I get an offer from a firm in Mumbai and then off I go yippeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Job life Vs student life

As a post grad student, I used to be very curious as to what these “working” people actually do for 8-10 hours a day. How can anyone have so much work? and even if they do, isn’t it too boring to monotonously work for so many hours at a stretch. Being a student I was used to not having  a lot of work(academic) and whatever work I had I used to finish it asap so most of my day used to go watching movies on the computer or spending time with P(whenever he was in town). I never needed to work more than 3 hours a day. Being the restless person I am, I used to look forward to a job where I would be busy for so many hours (hopefully working on something I’d enjoy) and not worry about how to kill time.

With 4 months on my first job I am completely disillusioned. I am fed up of the job already. I have absolutely nothing to do the whole day. I go to office hoping there would be some work atleast. The amount of work that I usually have takes around a maximum of an hour. With the job scenario as it is currently, I cannot afford to lose my current job. I hate the fact that I have to live away from my family and P. I took this job in the first place because it was supposed to be a good company and I could get a nice work-ex. Plus the fact that I am to marry soon and I would not want to live in different city after marriage. So, this was the only time I had to do this kind of stuff.

I know that this is a wrong time to feel self-pity, especially considering the state of the job market, I should be glad just because of the fact that I have a job, and a high paying one at that. But, crib I am gonna, coz I can . I am just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping they give me some decent work soon.

P.S: The only good part of this whole ‘not-having-much-work-at-office’ thing is that I can go to the gym regularly for 2 hours and have a good workout.

Job??

So, we just had our placements last month and I got selected in a development firm in Banglore. Now, my dilemma is this: Should I try to get a position in a R&D firm or should I stick with my current offer. Let me give you some background first.

Since I have been a Mumbai-ite throughout my life, and also since P is going to be in Mumbai.. atleast for the next couple of years, was considering working in a firm only in this city. But alas, this city has so few job options, that I had to apply for companies elsewhere too. I got placed in in the first 3 days, in a reputed development firm(A) . I had never even thought that I could get such a good offer. It seemed too tempting to join this firm in banglore for a couple of years, before returning to Bombay.  My initial plan was to just sit for placements, applying to all the companies coming to campus, and get an offer. I could later apply off-campus to companies in Mumbai. But my offer is far too good from any offer I could get in Mumbai. The work seems pretty good too.  So, after thinking a lot, I finally came to a decision that I would be joining A, work for 1-2 years and then come back here.

Now, the other problem is that there are these research and development labs which are considered pretty “cool”. I dont know yet whether I would like to do a R&D job or a simple development job. Another firm (N) has shown interest in interviewing me for an R&D job, and I turned them down, saying that I am happy with my offer from A. The main reason for refusal, however is that there are absolutely no R&D firms in Mumbai, where I plan to live.  Did I do the correct thing by refusing them?? or should I have given it some more consideration?