IT industry rant part 2

So. the answer for the IT related query in the previous post, is pretty simple rather.

Where would I end up in the coming years, well, depends whether I work for a product company or services based company!

A product based company can afford to hire people with more experiences to do the technical work. So we can work independently or with minimum supervision or whatever. 

But a services based company, would make us a manager sort of thing, where in, I would be the most paid guy in the team, which would comprise of lesser experienced people, in the 2 - 6 years experience range. So how would a services company actually make profit?

Well, they will bill the same amount to the client, even the 10 year experienced guy gets billed the same, and 6 year experienced guy gets billed the same. Only difference being, the salary given to the 10 year experienced differs from the one given to 5 year experienced. 

The services company actually makes profit because of the billing. So going by a services company standard, if I chose to be in one, will have to manage a team of some n number of people, getting from them the dumbest possible work done.

Regarding innovation and path breaking technology, well, I assume, that's best left for countries other than India. We are very happy making profits on billing rather.

Cheers to the Indian IT Industry!

IT industry and random personal ranting

While we were doing engineering, we were always wondering, how awesome it would be to write code, to develop software applications which many end users are going to use. How cool it would be to spend years together, growing old writing code.

And years after turning a professional, we just realized, writing code and writing software applications do exist, but in reality what we do exactly is more often than not repairing software applications written by someone else. 

The truth hurts but you got to accept it. So after a while in the IT industry,  you find the intellectually stimulating stuffs are over, what you got to do, where do you prefer to go. It has been such a cross road for me in recent times, where in I rather pretty much question myself each day as to where do I end up in coming years.

In a way, I found the answer in fitness for almost 2 years, where in I worked at it and it kept me super-busy. Well, I got to write about it in another post. I did a lot of treks earned a good reputation and have maintained a certain amount of discipline. 

Now, there is one more trivial thing which just cropped up. Whilst engaging myself with treks and travels and other activities, I never realized the so called age passing through. And all of a sudden, it hits me, very hard, knowing the fact that, I have crossed certain age and this whole society and other things come into picture.

This side of me, is the one which is very receptive to what society perceives, what the so called society talks about behind our back when we are not around. So now, I am in a crisis kind of sorts, where in 

- the technical stimulant which is a part of the job seems to be missing. There appears to be more and more politics, bureaucracy and lesser intellectual stuffs on the professional front.

- the trekking, travelling or the physical activities part, where in each time my age hampers me from packing my backpack and going trekking. 

So couple of things which stare at me, while I look for answers really, how do I enjoy myself work-wise and how do I enjoy myself when not at work. I took to reading stuffs but when the above two questions come to mind, reading comes to a halt altogether. I am not that old to start cribbing about stuffs, but still, its this stupid society or rather mentality which calls you absurd when things do not work out according to their time!

Wondering, whether applying a work permit of a different country altogether and move out of India, change my job and meet new people, hope for some new learning. I never really was thinking of **** atleast till 3 months back, now when, while attending any occasional function for that matter, this question just pops up.

Well, hopefully, there is going to be a new direction. I wish to get answers on both work as well as personal front. Hoping to gear up for job interviews soon.

Cheers,

Sorting personal mailbox / emails

Starting today, I decided to organize my mailbox. I have been using this mailbox for almost 15 years now, I thought, it deserves some more respect. I have the same email login for linkedin, for facebook, for goodreads, for twitter, so  many places and yet this mailbox of mine is full of junk.

I do not know, how morons end up sending spam mails to this email id. I have registered the same with job portals for banks etc. With things looking so unclean, as of today, I somehow made a concrete mind to clean up the inbox, un-subscribe from junk alerts.

Hopefully it will look cool in coming days,

Wish me luck,

Cheers,

New contest on Indiblogger

There is a new contest on Indiblogger, namely marathon blogging contest. The participants are expected to blog about some topics for a period of 30 days. At the end of 30 days, the person with maximum number of entries across multiple genres shall be entitled for a prize.

That prize is nothing but a TATA car. Well, thats nice to hear. But what a person can blog for 30 days. I am thinking of this opportunity of participating in this contest in order to write off all of my blogs pertaining to Himalayan treks.

Well, there are certain drawbacks,
- it would fall under a single genre
- Lack of time to compose in detail.
- It will take off my reading time.

Considering I am reading also these days, I wonder, if that new re-discovered habit of mine could be strained. But worth trying for sure.

I wonder how come such a contest came into existence. Reminds me of a scenario where ..............(I wish not to mention the scenario though).

Cheers,

One such tale

These days, I end up reading more than writing, I haven't been travelling much, office work has become repetitive, nothing much to adore about.

I have not even gone out to buy new clothes, tomorrow seems to be the day, I hope to do that. I have become so monotonous with the tasks I get to do that, I lose track of even the topics which I wish to write. I had planned to write about two things, but I forgot one of the topic.

Now I am remembering one of the topic which I write now, as I yawn and yawn, I did not get to sleep during the day and I feel very sleepy as I write this.

I am generally against feeding street dogs, not that I hate dogs, just that, I am kind of pissed off when the same dogs attack small kids or other people or stories like that. My mother has a different opinion of feeding left over food if any to the dog, which I strongly disagree. They feed, multiply and create more nuisance in the neighborhood.

So she told me one such tale, in the office where my mother worked, there used to work a lady, who would each day cook a cauldron full of rice and feed it to stray dogs near her house and then come to work. She also told, dogs from nearby places came and consumed the cooked rice.

Once what happened, this lady who used to do this gem of a job, fell sick, and was hospitalized. She fell sick to that extent that the doctors had given up any hope. Finally miraculously, she survived and even came back to work completed her service and then retired.

To which, my mother told about a conversation which happened around this miracle some days later. It was perceived that, the dogs, which were missing their daily meal, when the woman was hospitalized prayed to god for a quick recovery or rather prayed regarding obtaining their daily food, that God cured the lady who was the source of their food.

I do not know what to say about this incidence. Long live the lady and she still cooks the cauldron of rice each day.

Cheers,

I'm glad I could remember this and finish typing this tale, instead of forgetting.

Reading Ruskin Bond

I have been reading Ruskin Bond books, well, rather in a hurry. I just want to gulp as many of his stories as possible and as quickly as possible.

I feel like a sinner, a big time loser, having never read his stories all these years. Its a pity, we never have read much literature at schools. Other thing being, at that tender age, we generally spend time doing lesser intellectual things. (its an irony most of his stories are enjoyable by kids, may be I'm just the kid with lesser intellect or rather mugpot or in simple terms dumb)

Time just flies away after that, and we drift away and away from literature. I never had someone come to me and tell me or ask me, " Have you read Ruskin Bond?".

Now when I read Ruskin Bond, I feel, I should have read them as a kid to enjoy the way things were depicted in the book. Who would have thought there would be so much advancement, where in I never get to see who lives in my neighborhood and I connect with my friends only on social network sites?

Also, what Ruskin Bond describes in his story, is best felt if you get to the hills. Yes please, I have been to Uttarakhand and spent 3 days after my trek just lazying around in a hill station doing nothing. What better way than to recollect those memories and savor the Ruskin Bond book at the same time, yet cursing myself for not having read them earlier.

Could I have enjoyed them earlier, having never been to DehraDoon, Uttarakhand, or rather hills? What if I had read them earlier, could I have decoded them, connected with them, as I do now? I do not know. Probably yes, with some stories that got nothing to do with hills

Cheers,

Good old days

Everyone seems to have memories, which they wish to recollect. I have certain memories of the few years while I completed my engineering. We were 3 friends, and out of the entire class of 30, we three stayed close by and somehow were friends.

We used to meet up atleast on few days or rather every weekend at one of the friend's place in RajarajeshwariNagar. I must have written about this very early in the blog and its almost 7 years to that. Have quiet evening walks thinking of whether we would get employed in a company, whether, we would get a job etc etc.

And fast forward 2015, all three of us have drifted away. Its almost 5 years, I have not met one of my friend. And the other person, well he is in the US of A since 2008, so you can add 7 years to that.
Both of them are married and one of them has a kid and has gotten very much more serious with life.

And regarding me, I'm still the same, hoping, future will still be worry free, trouble free, but I doubt. I do have my own fair share of getaways things which I love to do. But golden days shall never come back.

Wonder where all life takes us. Reason why I am writing this?

Well was reading RK Narayan books last week and this week reading Ruskin Bond. These writers put you in that spell, where you start remembering stuffs, which you would rather have forgotten.

What about people, who do not have memories and few others who do not read RK Narayan or Ruskin Bond, I just do not know to say in that case.

Cheers,

PS - These days, I enjoy solitude, I enjoy my own company more than anything else, I trek I travel, but most of the time, I just need my own quiet time. I kind of agree, I would like to meet friends, more often than not, I prefer to be alone!

After a break

After a good haul in 2015, time for me to start writing something in 2016. I hope I write across the blogs on my recent Himalayan treks. For the last few days, I had been reading quite a bit, trying to complete as much books as possible for 2015.

New year has been rather disappointing. Apart from it being a different calendar year, there has been not much, which is happening. Life is as usual. Going on. Getting older. Reading, working, rather work which I am ******. Still training, though barred from taking part in this year's Himalayan trek due to shortage of leaves as well as confidence plus getting old!

Hope to continue reading and training and hope to find another **** quickly!

Cheers,