19 months after joining my first job i am finally excited about work, i can now feel the passion building up inside me. Sounds strange..lemme explain..
December-04, the placement season had just started, the primary aim which i had set for myself (like 99% of my batch) was to get placed with a package decent enough to make ends meet. Any package above a certain level (lets say X) would be an added bonus and so would be a job which requires you to stay in
Mumbai (in my case, their respective hometowns in the case of others). So i finally began my hunt. But before i could start
working on my CV the first bank arrived on campus. 6 hours of madness (includes the time spent to make a CV, get dressed, appear for GD, wait and appear for an interview), i had finally landed my first job, a decent package and location in good
ol Mumbai. Life rocks.
May-05, the vaguely worded job profile says Product Development. Me- very excited, thinking that i would be developing products that the bank would sell to millions (
ok-thousands) of its customers. Very Happy. After a short chat with someone from HR and a few senior managers who has come for the induction, happiness slowly starts fading.
June-05, finally joined job, Boss says job is to test software. Me-
wtf... %^ #*&%#. Later Boss explains that its an IT consultant type of a profile where we would constantly be interacting with vendors and IT department and explain them what software to create for the bank.
Truth finally dawns, i was not one of the
super smart ones to be chosen for product development, in fact i was one of those fools who was stupid enough to fall for their ploy and land this testing job.
what happened from then till Oct-06 is really of no consequence...i moved from one profile to another...from a tester to a consultant to a business analyst to a product manager to an operations guy to personal secy to
super boss to software tester again.... till finally i decided to move on and either quit the organisation of join another department (in fact efforts had started as early as May-06)...
So after many arguments, interviews and
gyan sessions later i became a relationship manager in corporate banking, sounded cool. I always wanted to be like those smartly dressed guys constantly on the move, meeting client s and cutting big deals (yeah i did meet clients and cut
deals in my old profile also, but never made any money for the bank)...this was my chance to do that and style...
So began my journey into the world of balance sheets and credit analysis, tough but
interesting...
back then in B school..me and old man used to eat, sleep and dream work (drink also)...
that's what made us so passionate about our work...when i say dream i meant it literally...i had glorious visions of
superbly organised festivals and seminars floating in my head...with huge amounts of sponsorships and the best speakers / entertainers that money could afford...
Last night i dreamt of work...my head was filled with visions of how i could cut those tough deals which had been stuck for the past few days...how i could offer a proposition which was profitable to as well as my client...like the don would say...'make and offer he cannot refuse'...
yes m friends...m back...and this time i love my job...
