The year 2018 has been

2018 has been one such year where lots of things have happened, both on professional and personal front. I have not been writing much, I have spent couple of months pondering, I have traveled less, and finally there are multiple things which took toll on me and for most part of the year, I ended up thinking and thinking.

So let me write a short note on what happened on work front.

On the work front, the year started very well and was enjoying work. Somewhere in the middle things started to go wrong at workplace and I ended up doing a whole lot of work instead of little and then for couple of months it was work work and nothing else.

Finally October month was nearing and I had planned to take a week off to travel to Leh. But I ran out of luck that time. I fell sick with fever had to cancel my leave plan, also on the side, I was released from the project due to shortage of fund.

So it was three ways to tackle, one the work which I liked so  much and the bond which I had built with the European colleagues was abruptly broken. Second the humiliation of being released from the project was so much to handle. People told me I was abusive on the management. I used to scold people badly. Everyone came up with their own set of advises and it felt horrible.

Nobody knows what the real reason for my release from the project was, but everyone was of the opinion that, I was really behaving horrible, by being rude towards other team mates, not collaborating etc etc.

Morever I was helpless, nobody could do anything about it. I am not someone who licks the arse of the management just to stay in the project. So there I realized where I changed paths.

But more than humiliation, I was worried about the future. I did not know how would I sustain in such a low paying organization. I was the black sheep out there, I was so freaked out about the market too. For two weeks I kept thinking and applying.

But as the saying goes, when we are in trouble, God comes to the party or to the rescue. Once my october leave plan got cancelled, I got a referral from my friend's organization.

I attended interviews which would not have been possible if I had gone ahead with my Leh trip. Then finally 5 days after being released from the project, I got the news that I shall be offered in my friend's organization..

I was over joyed, but somewhere, I felt cheated, I had worked very hard, built a very fine and strong reputation and bond with European colleagues, which I definitely refused to let go.

But truth is you cannot help. Most likely management got insecure of my presence in the team and told me to leave, you never know.

I shall write about various reasons which went sour in the coming posts. As of today, I finished a week trip to Bhutan and I am kind of relaxing in my new organization.

Cheers and loads of thanks to God for coming to rescue when I needed the most.

Cheers,