What have I learnt?

Hey,

It’s been more than 15 days since I joined Aurigo, or came to Bangalore, or started living away from my home and my people, or started living independently. Everything is true; you can consider which ever you feel has influenced me more. So now the question that I am asking myself is – What have I learnt?

That’s easy to answer isn’t it? Let’s see… I started cooking (don’t be alarmed!!!). It smells, feels, looks and even tastes horrible. Still food is food. ;) I learnt to walk ;) (I am not saying that I walk without tripping now. Because i did fall recently. :) ) I learnt to be alone. I learnt to cross Bangalore’s streets without freezing in the middle of the road (This is still in ummm… Testing phase. Yet to be tested in big roads ;)). I can go and eat pani puri all by myself :) Now I know I should take the house key with me when I am going out otherwise I have to wait outside till my roommate comes at 12 (Thank god we had a non-working duplicate key in of her relatives place (which by chance worked that day :), or else I don’t know how I would have spent 5 hours on the streets. Phew!!!)

These were related to general stuff, when it comes to office –Now I know that development code is not something that you play around with especially on the day of the beta release. If you do, then they take away your access to the code. And the worst part is you can’t even tell “I dint do it” because TFS never lies. It logs everything. :(. Learnt to use Source Control explorer, TFS and VSS (correctly). Of course I had to Google it a lot… A lot!!! Cause I had to start with “What the hell do you even mean by TFS”. Learnt to stare at the screen as if you are actually working, but in reality you can catch some sleep, which you might have missed as you were busy singing all night with your roommate, and realising its late when you see the time and it shows 4:00 AM.

All these things are fine. I feel the most important thing that I have learnt is - I have learnt to look after myself. When you are in a shell for 22 years, it’s impossible to learn this because the world around you is really small and there are many people around you who care about you so much that they are ready to look after your every minuscule needs. It’s true right?

All in all, whether it’s the corporate world or the real world, I am happy to say I have an excellent learning curve now.

Until next time. Adieu.

The week that wasn't expected

Hello,

I am super excited to have finally landed myself with a job after 3 most depressing months of my life. Not just with one job, I had two and a half jobs at hand. Wondering how can a person have 2 and a half jobs at hand? Well, first I got through in a company called Keane. I had everything except the joining date, and then I got through in another company called Expert Outsource. And then the final offer which I accepted was given to me by Aurigo. My present company. :) I am so happy. This is when I started believing in a hindi quote “Dene wala jab bhi deta hai, deta hai chappad phadke”.

My most exciting date finally came. I was supposed to join Aurigo on 1st March. I was asked to be there at 9:30. So I went there sharply at 9:30 dressed as best as I could. I was asked to sit there for a while and I was so nervous. And the worst part is when nervousness and excitement are combined, I become speechless. Completely silent. No matter what you tell, you can’t make me open my mouth. And many of friends have experienced this. In case if you people were wondering why was she so silent today? This is reason. J Anyways, let me continue, and I waited, waited and waited till 11:30. Finally somebody comes and tells me, the systems are full today, we are in the process of giving practical tests to new possible employees. I was crushed and was gaping at him, finally he asked me to come back at 2. And from that day’s 2 P.M my journey in Aurigo started.

I was taken and introduced to everybody in my team. At least 30-40 people, and they kept telling their names, as everybody knows, I am horrible at remembering names, that day also I could not remember anybody’s name, not even of the guy who sits next to me. But thanks to his marketing phone calls, I know his name today.

And the first two days were weird, very weird. I was given a computer and asked to just browse. And I was and am clueless, because I dint know what exactly constitutes “Browsing”. I wanted to login to my facebook, orkut and start browsing. But something told me, that’s not what they want me to do. So I compromised and started staring at the screen for two days. Next I was shown our product, the code and the database, and have started absorbing everything that is being shown to me.

This is really a different kind of a company, very different from PT. No dress codes, no definite timings, and a very different environment. And I hope I will be able to do my part for the company.

Wish me luck.