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My salutations at your divine lotus feet Swamiji 🙇‍♀️💐🌹🙏🏼

(Old one again)

‘ Lsten to your elders always’ this is another learning from this life…
when i completed my degree my father adviced me to join a pubilc sector or a bank job..i thought, WHAT?ME?! 

I did a semester project in one of the public sector and saw the life there..
People come to office at 8.am,have bf, 50paise 2idlis, 50paise 1vada(prices then, not now) after settling time of 1hr, 
they have tea/coffee for 25paise…everything is subsidised including their work 🙂 
and by 12.30 the siren goes for lunch….rs 2/- for nice full meals…
after meal they go for a walk and sleep for sometime, 3.30 next tea break, 5pm back in bus :O :O

I told father i need a ‘challenging’ job, i don’t want to go to such jobs which makes me lazy!!! 
God from above said “Tathastu” immediately. Who says ur prayers are not answered? 
God has always blessed me with more than what i have asked😛
From then the challenges never stopped pouring till i quit my job? 😉

Who knew with all the pay commissions and pensions people in the public sectors are going to be kings, and here i was asking for a challenging job?!!(no offense to anyone in public sector job, this is all just for fun!)

So started attending interviews… 
Coming out of each interview, i wondered which website the interviewer is picking questions from?
(but each interviewer posing as Dennis Ritchie!)
As my list of websites to refer for the interview grew and exhausted all the referrals, 
finally one day i got selected into a s/w job!!, no pension, 24X7 tension, no subsidy, 25/- meals(then)…i thought  ‘now this job makes sense’ 🙂
I joined in as a trainee in a startup, at the end of the training we were given a ‘challenging’ task, 
who ever fairs well will be taken to the most ‘challenging’ projects…
needless to say i was selected for the ‘challenging’ project!!

And within few months company shutdown the unit which we were working, 
probably company was finding the unit too ‘challenging’ to handle… 😉
again, i was out on the streets before even i completed a year in that company…This is how my career started :))))) someone has said “all that starts well, end well!”

Since god had decided to fullfill my wish, i was back in the job in some other company within a week…

So next few years were all, late night, and  weekend working… 
and each FPR(focal point review, ie performance evaluation) came the feedback, “now u r ready to take more ‘challenging’ jobs!!”
and the challenges kept on increasing…..

By the time i realized my mistake and wanted to try for a public sector job, i had crossed the age limit!!!

One thing always surprised me, the other labs were always celebrating their profit quater on quater, better hikes, and absolutely no work!!!!
How did some units manage to make profit without working!! 
what/how did they make their wish??? And meanwhile my lab going for salary cuts!!!

So i decided to join one such profit making unit and went thr’ the rounds of interview, and got selected…
Hoping for some relaxation and good hikes i joined the team…
as expected that quarter they decided to bring in more projects, and work hard for a change!!
And the unit i left was taken over by another company paying  double the salary what they were getting!!!!

OK! last but not the least, let’s see how my FPRs were…
As my previous year’s feedback was to take more challenges, i entered the room hoping to have met the expectation this time.
First few FPR slides(power point) were wonderful!!!….takes me to the 11th cloud…
i mean, the team thinks great about me!, the organization thinks great about me!,
the manager feels i am irreplaceable!, oh God!! i have nailed it this time!!…. [My mind is already in the jewellery store buying the necklace which i have been planning, enough of ear studs…or should
i go for a long pending holiday destination?]the last slide is even more surprising, there is just one other person who is little bit more irreplaceable than me 
and takes all the hikes and ratings!!!! 
[Ear studs this time also 🙁 ]

As usual asking me to keep the rating and hike confidential and 
with the feedback, you look tensed most of the time, and should relax a bit!! the FPR ends!!

I come out of the room hiding my disappointment and looking for that one person who is happy right now…
but i see all have left home early either to celebrate or to take revenge!!

God has really taken my wish seriously, how i wish i can time travel and unwish(no such a word or a thing) my wish….

I quit s/w job thinking enough is enough …ended with the most ‘challenging’ job on earth…HOUSEWIFE!!!!

PS: I had been rewarded and appreciated for my job. Software industry has given me bread and a life partner :). Life should be challenging or else it gets boring, but God let me relax a bit now!!!(hope i am being careful this time with my wish😌)