so had a short trip to sikkim before joining irctc, great place to be, especially the monastries and the scenery,returned from shillong and still now had not received the joining letter from irctc,
visiting the irctc office became an alternate day event and calling them up a regular phenomenon so finally got my letter by the end of july and 4 august was my date of joining which was also my parents wedding anniversary, so reached office on 4 august they checked all our documents, and 11 august was the date induction would start somewhere in kishanganj, delhi.
the d day came and all dressed up me and ankit reached kishanganj via auto, metro, and rickshaw.
the induction period went off well, even we didnot knew what lied ahead untill we got posted at the new delhi railway station base kitchen,and man people call it love at first sight, i say it whatever it is other than love at first sight, the first expression i had was how am i going to work over here, but again the fighter that i am,started working and each passing day my level of depression in life increased and my will to do a mba also increased.
work there was nothing more than some 30 odd people cooking the food and another 15 odd people packing the food and looking over the logistics so that they reach the train safely on time,
it followed with ankit saying it quit in the month of january and i still fighting it on with the only thing good about it being receiving the pay check at the end of the month, i could sought of never like that job, the feeling of doing something satisfactory was no there and that blended with the frequent trips to nizammudin railway station in some old motor bike and to reach on time made me think of giving february mat, a b school entrance examination , that too without any preparation, and my plan was to leave the job if i get something in and around the ninety percentile score, but somehow the exam seemed easy to me and i got some98.xx percentile, then came the ultimate test of will power that allowed me to leave the job in early april, but i didnot feel good about sitting idle for so many days so finally i joined a ngo which was working with the times of india group for the teach india movement, that was one of the best decision i took in my life and that gave me immense satisfaction and i felt like achieving something, working with the kids who were not as lucky as we are , and trying to make there life a little better,
i joined a coaching centre and prepared for my dream........
time flows like the dots in the previous line and soon i was writting the real tests and hoping for he best, some of the exams i wrote were good, pretty good like irma,delhi school of economics etc., whereas some like iift were complete disaster in which i couldnot reach the total cutoff.
while others like the CAT were , lets leave it types...
so finally i managed some good calls and some good converts and i am now a student of DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS..
few pointers and things i have learnt till now, never do a job which you donot enjoy, nor that it adds to your knowledge base, and it further de moralises you like anything, and always do what you feel right ( till the time it is legally right as per the law of the country), i joined delhi school of economics or the d school leaving aside many good colleges , maybe the d school will not be able to provide me with the 7 digit salaries and beat skipping profiles but still i can boast of that i choose it for myself
i left my job at the reputed psu organisation that people call irctc much to dis belief of many of my colleagues and relatives and friends but it is better to leave something you do not like than to cry about it for a lifetime like many of my colleagues would do.
thats me as of today the 26th day of the sixth month of 2010......
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