Now, that I got decent GMAT score, I was thinking what I should do with my career.

‘What career plans? I have a GMAT score, go do an MBA’.
‘Dude, wait, talk to people, you will get broader view’.

So I though it would be cool to explore my other options rather than sticking to an MBA.I started to talk to people about my career plans. I got a variety of suggestions on the best suit career for me. One suggestion was that I should become a Psychiatrist. Wonder what would be the end product when a Psycho becomes a Psychiatrist!!!

Three weeks have gone by, I am in a deeper confusion than I was before, on what I should do. ‘Darn my split!!, I should have sticked to the Original Flow of getting campus Placement in a IT firm, working pointlessly for couple of Years, appearing for CAT, XAT, GMAT, SNAP, CRAP, getting a MBA and selling Soaps, preparing strategy to sell soaps, managing people who sell soaps, recruiting people who sell soaps’

Hmmm…Now I am in a deeper confusion.People couldn’t give me clarity. So I hoped that internet will. I googled,digged, stumbled for career suggestions, career options, career advise, career whatever. It was adding more confusion than clarity. What is the Best option? Is there a best option? Should I stick to some option, and call that the best option? Finally….

I did not get what I want. But I came across a blog ‘Wish, I knew it when I was 20‘. A part of it struck me, I knew that the blog wasn’t going provide me an answer for my career choice, but it would help me in understanding what I want.

3. Find the intersection between your interests, your skills, and the market.

One comment that really resonated with me is the idea that passion isn’t enough. You also have to understand and appreciate the other two pieces. For example, if you have only passion but no skills or there’s no market, you have a hobby. If you only have the skills but don’t have the passion, you are working a job.

this part of the blog stuck me. It suggested how one could choose a career! Something I badly needed!

We have heard different people say different things :

Dude, go by your Interest, do what you love to, don’t just do something because it gives money, do something that would give you satisfaction

Son, listen to me, I am telling to you from my experience, choose a career which has a market, accept the offer from the IT firm, in the future you will realize you made the right decision by choosing it over Fashion Design

I don’t know how they recruited you as a Programmer, you are better skilled for farming, it is my fate that I have to manage such morons

So with what should you go by? Your Interest, your Skills, the market. There are a lot of tools that are available online to help you identify your interests and skills, some are good ( because they are free) while some are really bad( they charge up to $50 to give you 200 page report, WTF am I going to do with that!!).

But I thought the best thing to do was to sit down, go back as far as I can into my past, think of everything I enjoyed doing, list them as Interests and think of everything for which people appreciated me, or I thought you were good, list them as skills. And I knew that what were the happening markets. Now, I have something tangible, I decided to find out if any of my skills, interest and market match.

If you happen to be a human being, you will find something for your career that satisfies your interests, market and skills. So your career choice triangle should be something like this:

If someone gets a triangle like this. It is best for them to commit suicide

Now, did that work for you! I bet it would have, at least i thought it would for me. It did work! But, the problem was there more than one match my interest, skills and market!. So what do I do now? So how do I select now?

Is confusion a way of Life?

Will the world end in 2012? Is the Mayan Calendar true? Is December 21st, 2012 the real dooms day?

The Mayan Calendar is creating quite a buzz about extinction of Human Race. I was wondering what would happen if this was true?

Then I asked to myself, What are the things I want to do if the world Dec 21st, 2012 is the Doomsday? I am not greedy person, I have just three wishes. Here goes the list…

Feature in the top 10 list of Serial Killers of all time:

The world is going to end anyway, so how about a fun ride, where I go kill people at will. No patterns, No sexual abuse but just murder people. The chances of getting caught by police within three years is less. I don’t intend to follow any patterns, so that makes things difficult for the cops. Even if get caught, it is just three years, after which everyone is going to die. So does it matter?

Feature in the top 10 Robberies of all time:

Just imagine how great it would feel to be in the foot of John Dillinger ( Remember the movie Public Enemies), to be famous but people don’t know you. I don’t know why, but I feel that fooling people gives oneself immense satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment. So this is number two. I want to be a great Bank Robber!!!

A vacation at the Bora Bora Island: A vacation at the Bora Bora Island, I feel this is the real heaven, not the one high in the sky, where you have to live with invisible people, isn’t that spooky!!! Bora Bora would be the ideal place to watch the world end. Also it would be the perfect hideout considering the fact that I would be the most wanted Criminal in the world.

But, I feel that is another one of those stupid conspiracies which remain true only on papers and I will have to try to live a sane life which is of course BORING!!!!

Few other similar conspiracies I remember are the Y2K (end of the world at the start of the millennium) and the Failure of the Large Hadron Collider experiment would suck the world!!!!

So what’s on your wish list?

From the day I had started to make ground work for MBA, I have been apprehensive about it. I had the usual doubts and hopes, just like any other ordinary Indian.

Firstly, I was not interested in CAT, for a simple reason, the competition. The competition is huge, I felt that people were more obsessed with CAT than the MBA, I did not want to be one among the thousands (Read as: I can’t put that much effort). With this, my hopes of getting an admit in India…. No, wait, there is ISB, but I need a score close to 700 or even greater to be considered eligible for applying. But, with that score I can even apply to Harvard!! (Read as: I won’t crack the 700+ barrier, so ISB is out of the radar). And finally,I decided that there are no schools in India that is privileged to take me in. Yeah, I have found my reason to travel abroad.

And thus, I started the long journey of realization, sometime back in the summer of 2008. I was very naive then, both about what I wanted from my career and why I wanted an MBA? But, nevertheless I continued my pursue my dreams, I bombed the first time at GMAT, Later, I found out that I had use shitty materials will be helpful only in reducing my score.So I planned to take up XAT simultaneously with GMAT. The XAT was not a huge hit, but still I managed to get admit in LIBA, thanks to my religion, which I don’t believe. My second attempt at GMAT failed. So I had to take a decision, I had to either tell to myself that is my capacity and go to LIBA or stay foolish and deny the LIBA call. I decided to stay foolish, took my 3rd attempt, got a satisfactory score in GMAT. I decided ‘this is it‘.

After four months, I had made no progress with my MBA application. I had to do something in life. It was a worrying sign. Then, one fine day, out of nowhere a meatball hit my head that was the moment I realized that I should make my fourth attempt!!!! at GMAT. Now, I started to get obsessed with GMAT, people told me that ”I have gone crazy”. But, when wasn’t I crazy? I succeeded this time around. I got a good score. I made few elementary mistakes, else would have been competitive for ISB I had thoughts about the fifth attempt, but for time being, I have shelved the plans and started searching for schools that are eligible to be privileged and honored at my arrival to their school. But, wasn’t I satisfied after my 3rd attempt too?

So what has the realization journey taught me in these one and a half years?

• ISB is not lucky enough to have me
• So is Harvard…
• And not to forget the IIMs, they are also unlucky

“I’m sitting here in the boring room
It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I’m wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I’m hanging around
……
But nothing ever happens and I wonder why

……“( Fools Garden – Lemon Tree)

I was dying of boredom until when my friend came out with a crazy plan. A Walk to the Beach 

Well, is it that crazy to walk to the beach? Not really!!! Unless the beach is 15 Km from your house and the city has already slept.

Map to show what is so crazy about my Walk to the beach

                                                  Chennai City Map 

It was a journey that started from one end of the city and ended at the other. I expected it to be a long, demanding and colorless a march.

As myself and Deepak and also John came out of my house I rushed backed to my room .I had left my mobile back there, Mobile Phone has been my latest crush.

And as soon as we started we had confusion over the route which we were to go. There were too many routes to decide on. Finally, we decided to take the shortest route to the seafront and started walking. Deepak and I were already hooked to our mobile phones. But since it was already late the replies started drying, so had to put the mobile back into my pocket. And when I looked at the time, only then I realized we had walked for an hour now and the distance we covered was just 2 odd KM. Second thoughts began to pop up. Time speeding like the Hare Distance slogging like the Tortoise .But we know who won the race 

We decided to accelerate our pace. To make things less boring John started narrating his college stories. This guy has studied in 4 colleges, discontinued from most. A dozen Schools. A brief introduction about his college life was all it took for us to cover 3Km.Totally, we had now covered 5 Km, so we decided to do our first pit stop at a small Petty Shop and we started again .

But again hunger was slowed our pace. Johns college incidents were exciting  enough to cover  another 2Km in no  time .Now having covered half the distance we decided to stop for dinner at hotel near my college, I recommended the place as which was our favorite hangout during my college days.

And we started again, as we walked amidst the traffic bypassing the signals. We were filled with joy that had no bounds. The silly reason, At least for once we weren’t caught up in traffic. John wasn’t finished yet. His life has been a non-stop roller coaster ride.

I have been talking about John all the while that I forgot to tell about Deepak. He is one of the funniest persons I had ever met, etc. I have loads to tell about him which I will do later. His role in this blog. Well, He is the one who gave the idea and of course kept us entertained us with his humor.

People in general walk for two reasons
1. A leisure Activity
 2 .Mode of transport

I don’t fit in either of these. I was thinking why was I walking? Who knew? I was walking for the sake of walking.

At last we reached Gemini Flyover, the hottest spot in Chennai for traffic. It was some 10 Km from my house.<br>

When I looked back at the distance I had traveled .I couldn’t believe that   I had traveled so far. It brought within me a sense of gratification.  But, I had a long distance ahead so turned back and started walking. We had reached the last stretch of road that will take us to the beach. It was a quite a long road. It was so near yet so far. We kept walking on and on for more than 30 minutes .At last we could smell salty air. We could see the horizon where the ocean and the sky met. It was a great feeling to the see the beach at last after 3 painstaking hours of walking.

I had started walking with no motive but when I reached the beach I had within me a sense of achievement. I felt that if we wanted do something; we can do it no matter what. It was the moment I realized

No Dream Too Big .No Distance Too Long

A one-lienr is a jkoe that tkaes to its haert the pricniple that brevity is the suol of wit. A one-lienr, in the strcitest sesne, is a jkoe that is delievred in a signle line.It provoeks laugther or deep thougths!!

I hvae been addcited to one liner for a lnog tmie .It is the best form of adidng hmuor. So I thoguht I will put up smoe of the bset from my collcetion to add life to this bolg.   

                                    Bad spellers of the world, untie! 

And here are some of the best ….. 

  Do I have amnesia? I’ve forgotten.

There are 10 kinds of people; those who understand the binary calculus and those who don’t.

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

The important things are always simple.

The simple things are always hard

Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? 

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Procrastinate Later.

!klat kcab ruoy dna uoy nmaD

I can resist everything except temptation.

I can’t promise that I’ll try. But I’ll try to try

Just remember.. if the world didn’t suck, we’d fall off.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Love is a war easy to start hard to stop impossible to forget

I’ve discovered that I often visit the state of confusion, and I know my way around pretty well.

But ocifer, I swear to drunk I’m not god!

Who said “nothing is impossible!!!”……I did nothing in my life!!!!! 

Defeat defeat before defeat defeats you!!

Fiction is our own reality.

There are 400 hundred words in the dictionary that begin with “self” and only 8 that begin with “fellow”.

People laugh because I’m different, I laugh because they’re all the same.

Sometimes I wish life had subtitles!

A bus station is where a bus stops.

A train station is where a train stops.

On my desk, I have a work station..

The trouble with life is there’s no background music.

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. 

Good morning is an oxymoron.

And some more funny definitions… 

Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.

Advice: what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn’t.

Computers: working daily to make the human brain obsolete.

Oxymoron: Microsoft Works.A metaphor is like a simile.

Life: Sexually transmitted disease, 100% fatal.

To be continued…..   

Hooray!!! At last I got my own blog. By the way, Is it that tough to get one? Not at all. But, It gives within me a sense of fulfillment.
This being my first blog answers all those usual questions, why, what etc

“Rusting to Dust-Emerging from Ruins”

 This is what life is all about and that is what i am going to write about. I have been thinking of starting a blog for the past 6 months .It remained as dream till this day. I know it hardly takes a minute to create a blog but still it took me 6 months to find this one precious minute. And the reason..

When I had loads of time, I had nothing to write
When I had Loads to write ,I found no Time
Now that I have started working ,I have both.

And finally about me, another one of those Tom, Dick and Harry who finds lots of free time in his workplace to blog.