Last Day in First Company

30/04/10 - My last day in my first company. Got selected in Perot Systems, when the company visited my college campus in 2006. That time I was still in 3rd year of my engg. I was having a very good impression for this company, so was very happy to get selected . I was not selected in Wipro, the first company that visited my college campus. The reason was just that I had some gap in my education. I was sad, but somewhere back in my mind I was happy. If I was selected in Wipro, I could not have got chance to sit in next coming companies, and Perot was the next one.

After all the process of campus recruitment, the result were announced around 5 AM. As my interview was done around 2 AM, I was in hostel, sleeping. My room mate and other college friends came and gave me the news. I was thrilled . After all this was going to be my first job offer. I ran towards the Admin block in the campus, as the Perot team was waiting to hand-over the offer letter to the selected students. 14 students were selected from around 200 students. The salary offered was better than Wipro and other companies. Huh..it was party time!! A big party in the night made the celebration even better.

03/10/07 - Joined the company at the Bangalore campus. One of the best IT campus in Bangalore. Surrounded with lot of trees and lush green lawn, in the center of the campus was the beautiful building of Perot Systems . I was almost 2 hours late from the scheduled reporting time , so could not admire everything that time. In next few hours, the formalities were done and the induction program started. During this one week induction, we use to walk around the campus, making new friends and looking around everything with excitement. I made few good friends at that time. We used to peep into the work area and cubicals were the 'Software Engineers' used to work. One could easily find small small chunk of these college pass out engineers interacting with the senior ones. There was so much of excitement questions and doubts . All the new joinees were divided into 6 batches and training schedule was up for next 3 months. The training period was awesome. Learned a lot, enjoyed even more, made lot of friends. It was kind of college environment again, and we were paid also, awesome 

First salary  - Got the first salary after a month of training on 31st oct '07. Super excited, at the top of the world . Some spent this for shopping, some on their girl friends, some gave gifts to their parents, some went to temple etc etc. Again, the importance of the FIRST thing. I personally felt more confident and independent. First time, I was not waiting for my dad to send money for me, but instead send money for his suit length and mom's saree. I still remember my dad saying once that - 'I will get my next suit from Minku's salary' (Minku, my nick name). I was proud to do this. I was EARNING now. 

Lot of things happened after training days and till my final day in the company. Lot of good and even more bad things. Till end of 2008, everything was good. I got more friends, and the environment in our project area was not less than college friends working and enjoying together. I bet, you won't easily get such a place to work in your entire career. The problem started when recession hit the market. Before that it was all fun, but everything started changing slowly because of this monster. Changes in management, no appraisal, no project, no learning, nothing was happening. Dell acquired Perot Systems and no one was sure whats gonna happen next. It looked like someone is holding me tight so I cant move, but could only see the time moving fast in front of me. The situation became so bad that I had to take whatever comes to me and continue . But, this is the fact, if one opportunity is taken away, few others line up for you. The responsibility which I took un-willingly, brought a very good opportunity to me finally.

09/02/09 - Got married to my childhood sweetheart. Many old friends could not come to my wedding function because of recession. They were scared to ask for leave and were not sure if they will have the job when they come back from my wedding . I also faced little heat of this. I was removed from the project and till date I am not sure why did this happen. Anyways life for me was not only about office now. In fact, the only thing that gave me peace and strength was the presence of my life partner with me. Above all, I always felt that there was a Heavenly power with me. Both the things combined with the emotional and moral support from my family, I was always ready to fight with any situation.

05/03/10 - Suddenly (yes it was kind of sudden thing only), I got another job offer . This was from the company I never heard about and whose interview I never took seriously. Within 4 days of the first call that I received from the company, I was holding an offer letter which seems to be perfect for me. They gave me whatever I asked for, and I know I did not ask them any less. I saw the result of my belief in my mailbox that day. I resigned the same day and now I was supposed to serve two months notice period. Today, this is also over.

At the final week in office, I was quite relaxed. Neither much excited nor sad about leaving the company. On the last day, 30-04-10, I was pretty busy in completing the formality and running around. So was not able to sit and realize about the situation emotionally. Around 5:30PM, everything was done and I got my relieving letter. My friends and colleagues brought a cake to celebrate and wish me good luck for my next step in career. They are really a good chunk of people whom I worked with, really. As always, the cake was more on the face than in the stomach . Now, it was almost the time to leave the office, for the final time. 

Suddenly many things started crossing my mind. "I wont come to this office from tomorrow - This is my last day - If I come someday to meet my friends, I will be a visitor and not a part of this company - Friends, seniors, managers, there support' etc etc . At this point of time, I started feeling bad about the last day. I collected my stuff, met few of my close colleagues and manager, and as soon as I came out of the gate, I felt that I am out of this company now. My first company, which taught me many things and I spent first 31 months of my career. I was sad. I could not speak and react for next 1 hour or so. Its all over . In this one hour, I could see everything starting from my campus placement till date. Like a movie played in fast forward mode. It all started with a good day in the college and ended with good friends in my first company.

I know, I will get out of it sometime soon, and at the same time will always miss Perot System and its beautiful campus. At this point of time, one line in context of job, company, career etc., from someone in my office is coming to my mind again and again "There is no emotions involved guys" ... but today again this seems to be wrong for me - Emotions are involved, after all Perot Systems is my FIRST company. Will miss it and everyone there.

Signing off !!

Sanket Jalan 

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I Still Love HER

I love variety. Variety in everything. This just helps me to be enthusiastic about anything. So is my writing, my blogs. and this time its about- "I Still Love HER".

The thought came in my mind while I was travelling back to my home from work, sitting in the cab. It was around 5AM in the morning. Some how, a thought crossed my mind, about a girl. I am in love with her from many years. I could easily imagine her sleeping quietly at that point of time. Her beautiful face, calm and clear, just popped up in mind, and I said to myself 'I Still Love HER'.

Let me share little background of my story. Today, I am 27, married last year to my childhood sweetheart. We are in love from the time when I was 14 and she was 12 . To be precise, we were not in 'Love' at that age, but got to know each other and became close friends within few days. The reason - our houses were diagonally opposite to each other in a small town of India, and we studied in the same school that time etc etc. Within two years, we realized that we love each other, though none conveyed this to other And you won't believe, I never proposed her, nor she did it. We never needed it actually. But she always wanted me to propose her and I kept postponing it, for something bigger and better, that I never knew till I proposed her.

It was our wedding night, 9th feb '09, before we exchanged garlands and in front of 1000+ people, over a heightened stage. I did it on my knees with a red rose in my hand, and smile on my face. I dont remember what exactly I said, but something like 'I love you, Will you marry me?' (wedding time its a 100% winning chance on proposals ). She accepted my rose with smile on her face and nodded while accepting my love from the core of her heart. She just loved it and so did I. We were loving this moment, enjoying it. huh..simply, the most beautiful moment of my life..ever!! (pic)

Like every love story, we also faced hell lot of difficulties. It was not a walk on flowers but thorns. At that point of time, while going through lot of things, I was only loving her more and more and was better convinced that we are gonna be together someday. This BELIEF and FAITH made the foundation of our relation so strong that no power present on the earth or in heaven could separate us. I say it our FAITH - in our relation and The Almighty, that today we are happily married. Those who do not believe in God, and want to relate it with something scientific or 'practical', they must learn about the concept of sub-conscious mind and repetitive suggestion to it, the power of dreaming with emotions attached and having faith in it. (Read my earlier blog 'My meeting with my DREAM'). If you need a better writer to explain this, read the book "Think and grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill

Everything just flashed in front of my eyes while I was in cab. I started thinking that 'Ah..she is my sweet heart and I still love her after 13 years of relation'. Most of the people say that things change once you get married. They are absolutely correct. We know each other better, and share a stronger bond and the love and respect for each other is just getting better and better. Things have definitely changed, but only in the right direction. The secret could be many, and I leave it on you to decide by looking to your story as a neutral person. In fact, I feel there is no secret. Its just LOVE.

To everyone reading this, I will like to advise to be true and honest for the relation you want to sustain and enjoy it and for my love I will say "I Still Love Her"

Signing off !!

Sanket Jalan

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My meeting with my DREAM

Hey guys, guess what, I just met my dream today, face to face, with open eyes!!

No its not about day dreaming. It's about Visualization and about feeling that in real world. Let me explain. I visualize about something, something that I really want. Something I can not afford to miss or loose or live without. I attach my visualization with my emotions and it becomes even stronger. Soon it will become reality

Remember: without your emotions being attached with your desire/visualization/dream etc., they are not strong enough to become a REALITY. Without the blend of strong emotions, you can not affect your sub-conscious mind to the extent that it presents your dream in front of you, in the real materialistic form. Such emotionalized visualization or dream, become FAITH and your sub conscious mind starts picking it. Once your sub conscious mind starts working for your dreams (and thats only because you have emotionalized visualization or dream that became your FAITH), no one in the world can stop you from getting it. This does not mean that you don't need to have a proper plan to achieve it. You must ACT with full FAITH and BELIEF that you will achieve it. Another condition: you must decide what are you ready to pay for achieving. Nothing comes without a price tag. This can be in terms of personal sacrifice, compromise, hard work, service you need to render etc etc. So decide you price and start ACTING.

Coming back to dreams: As everyone else, I also dream. Though I am not sure, how you take your dreams. Do you put a condition on your dream, or just dream it and forget it saying that.."huh, after all its only a dream, lets get back to reality and start working as always and as everyone" Remember, your dreams are your own. It's your brain child, so grow it according to you. The same way parents grow their baby. Don't you like your child to get the best in the world, whatever it takes. You work harder to see him growing happy and healthy. Don' you?? Than why do you run away from your other child - your brain child - your dreams. Work hard and do whatever it takes to grow it, with FAITH and BELIEF.

Toady, I met with my DREAM, my brain child, thats still in growing phase, but I am more clear and focussed now. I met my dream face to face, might be in the 4th dimension and I am thrilled. I will do whatever it takes to bring it down to our world of 3 dimension

Signing off !!

Sanket Jalan

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It's not only about Money

Hi Friends,

This is probably my first attempt on blogging. So its time to decide the topics and what to write. Since this platform is connected to making money online, I see most of the blogs talking about this. Everyone is sharing their business opportunities and ways of making money. That gave me an idea what to write . Hey guess what.. no its not only about Money (my title says that). In fact it will come at very later part of my writing.

I will not be sharing what business I do apart from my software job, but definitely my experience and knowledge about the industry. Oh..I forgot to write which industry I am talking about. Apart from my Software job at Dell Services, I have rich experience in Network Marketing and Internet Marketing. I just love the concept of Network Marketing/Direct Selling/MLM. I am a firm believer of education in whatever field one wants to grow. I keep myself educating about MLM industry and Internet marketing industry. According to me "Internet and Network Marketing is THE lethal combination". One can literally take the rocket pace with this combination with a very very small or no start up cost.

Enough of business talks . Will be writing more about other different things.

Cheers!!

Sanket Jalan

Bangalore, India