even a few months back, had anyone ever said i'd be stressing myself out on what was going to happen when i walked out of college with a B.Tech degree in hand, i would have just laughed it off. seriously....college just reopened two days back and man are we stressed out already. campus interviews are happening and there are the ones that get selected and the ones that dont. u cant even offer them sympathies...that is so redundant.... and now i think i'll sit for wipro...but i dont want it...i want the experience of getting to the interview (if i do!!) and i'm thinking of telling the guy that buddy i'm glad i got here but no thanks...the thing is if it happens that i get a job with them then thats not a good thing because i want chemical companies..food industry and all that.. and if ever wipro decides i am actually ok for their company then i cant appear for the companies i want to for!!
ok i think i'm a little more clear headed now than i was in college today....but not so full of clarity either..but i know now that i have to go for the companies i want. wipro would be all nice and fine but thats my lifes direction. the thing i have to figure out now is whether i want to go take the test or not...like deepak said it should be pretty easy to not get selected...its the getting selected thats gonna be hard...hmmm... i should think on my own...thts why i hate having people around when i have to make up my mind....its irritating but you know that everybody is just giving your their view on it and its up to u to pick and choose....
funny thing is i dont want unwanted advice and opnions but i would still like u to comment on what i'm doing instead of keeping mum...contradicting myself aren't i?? can't help it!! ok now i think its time i went and figured out what chem companies i'd like to get into....thats another thing my mom and deepak agree on- that i have to many demands of a company that i'd work for but do i have what they want? i am quite the jack of all trades but am i master of none? atleast to the best of my knowledge i am no master of any technical subject i havent learnt till date!!
yea well....i am a bunch of contradictions and complexities one way or another and i'm becoming so haphazard every day now too!!! its crazy!! oh and i have to GRE prep too!!! guess i should be glad i'm not taking CAT and all....dunno what'll happen to me then!!!
i'll put a stop to this post of my unbelievably scattered thoughts here....just a last word....i'm reading FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT by dominique lapierre and larry collins. its a must read for all book lovers. truly. its such amazing writing and he writes so well of gandhi and mountbatten and churchill and all....i'm not even close to half way through the book but i cant put it down either...if u like reading....pick it up...and dont give me crap of having already read about india's freedom struggle in your tenth...that is such a lame excuse!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
13 comments:
dont sit for wipro :)
take chances ...dont settle :)
going the gre way eh.. doesnt need much prep in my opinion and the scores dont really matter much..what matter more is the reco i guess
First time here! detour from venki's!
Anyways...had gone thro the same thing in my final year...!
Two friends...one was a dreamer wanted to be a chemical engineer...take GRE get a PhD in hard core chemE...other one thought he was pragmatic..wanted to go to a SW comp..do his MBA after that..settle in India for a MNC...
The first one is Venki..(fragments of time)..u know whats he doin... Second one is me..doing my Phd! Took the paths that each wanted to take..but for eachother..! comically surprising!
Nyways from what I know..getting to know whats in store is more enjoyable and surprising than anything..!
agreed with random .... take chances and in my view ... u can and dare infact ... nyways ... hope that its not an unnecessary crap of advice ... thrown at you ...lol .. :)
Yup "Freedom at Midnight" is quite a brilliantly written book. Read it the first time about 2 years back and liked it so much that I went out and bought it.
The characterisations of the players during those times is excellent and it also offers some interesting insight into the lives of Nehru, Jinnah and the Mountbattens.These guys are amazing writers-its a pity that one of them is no more.
I have abs no gyaan to give except that I'd very much like u to read this
http://jupieee.blogspot.com/2004/08/june-july-august.html#comments
Much water might have flown under the bridge but the issues seem to be the same.
All the best :)
ps: I now work in Wipro - ironic, isnt it ?
Wipro's nice if you wanna do software. They do lovely work n' pay like sh*t. Which college, might I ask? Btw, got here from ur comment on my blog. :)
Hmm lotsa of my friends dropping by here....Sit for Wipro....get a job...get confused abt GRE..start the job neways since the VISA and other uncertainities exist...come to bangalore...enjoy the money...crib on the work the crowds and the fact tht everyone is in s/w...study something....go and work in a chem firm or other firms.....realise tht s/w is heaven...come back to the same shit..with more pay....try to go onsite...realise ...india is heaven...come back....sit back...enjoy India while it grows...realise nuting is as it seems....and everythign is as it seems.......work is to keep ur mind busy...money is to keep a roof over ur head....clothes are for the weather........and life is to have fun..!!!
wow...thanks guys..thts a lot of support and only yesterday nite did i write that post!! i have to say its overwhelming....
thing is i never wanted software...now it doesnt seem so bad..and venks, somewhere in that comment of urs it seemed a not-so-bad-idea... i never thot of sitting in front of a comp all day programming...
jupe...i have to ask u...somebody said wipro has a chemical part to it too...is that true? and mommy was saying something about wipro manufacturing soaps or something..i dunno...
rambler...thanks..u sound like my conscience...
the thing at college(SVCE) is that u have to choose between campus and higher studies...and everytime i make up my mind about one, i keep thinking what i might be losing with the other...its insane!!
i'm taking atleast the aptitude at wipro..the rest i'll take it as it comes..
u know, i dont what u guys might have to say about this... coz i was thinking of a MS in food and nutrition, work for a coupla years and then an MS in operations research and then another coupla years of work and then an MBA... i had quite a few people look at me like i was mad and some like u are insane if u wanna study that much!!
and i'm scared of losing taht drive to study and do so much if i'm caught up in a company..
barath...hows the phD coming along? my HOD would love u literally!! he thinks we are all a bunch of losers coz we are in SVCE with no intention of a serious chem career...the guy is the biggest loser!!
pawan thank u...i dunno who's advice will or will not follow...just as long as nobody turns around and quotes henry higgins off my fair lady if i dont!!
saraansh...me going prett slow with the book actually but the wanting to finish it is still there!!! oh and there are the numbers who are threatening to steal the book from me if i dont finish it fast and pass it on...and all this because i spoke so high of the book!!
kuts..me from SVCE..madras..wipro to me is just the multi coloured sunflower and aziz premji..lets see if its gonna be more in the near future..though i'm hoping not...
As far as I see all HODs are big time losers except for a few...they try to enforce their experience...and expect the students to follow...nyways I dont want to be a torch bearer for the ChemE community...whatever it is...Phd is fun...especially with thermoD...!
Post a Comment