My Proffessional Life - begins!

Life is interesting. It denies what we long for and gives something good which we may not ask for. Whatever, I always believe that whatever happens is for your good. I take life as it comes.

While doing my under graduation in Electrical Engineering at Regional Institute Of Technology –RIT, Jamshedpur ( now – National Institute of Technology –NIT) during 1975-80, I never thought I will land up in Software sector. I remember how our professor who taught us Power Systems let us have a glance of his latest baby – a computer covered in sheets through a small glass opening on the door!! We had a glance, but it did not give us any spark to pursue life in Computer age.

After completing the graduation, came out with great confidence as I got 73.4% marks, which was considered good those days. I got my highest score in Switchgear and wanted to do Post Graduation in Indian Institute Of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Unfortunately, I could not get through as I had only 59.5% marks in my Std X, while minimum requirement was 60%. Though I was disappointed, I started looking out for jobs.

First Job – The dream job

This is the best job I ever had in my life. Immediately after graduation, I joined Tata-Robins-Frazer as their site trainee at Vijayawada Thermal Power station, Ibrahimpatnam. When I joined, they had already commissioned Conveyor stream –A and I was asked by my boss to handle stream-B. I enjoyed every moment of life there. I was amazed at the control desk / Kiosk.

I used to be called late in the nights for trouble shooting. One day I was called at 1 AM as the conveyor was not working on top of the coal bunkers. I went up with enthusiasm, checked and cleared the problem by 1:30 AM and the coal started flowing into the bunkers. I felt proud to be called midnight!

Though I loved the job, some one in the company told me that a Mechanical Engineer may finally become a Project Manager as lots of mechanical structures are involved. I was not sure if it is true, but felt convincing that it may be true. And I wanted to become a Project Manager handling all and not just the electrical stuff. I started looking out for jobs