The Road Less Travelled - Not Always Better

This blog would tend to be boring. So, don't read this unless you are ready to hear my polambals.

It was June 1998 and as a guy in final year of MCA, I attended campus interview and got selected in the first company L & T. Actually I was interested in TCS and had prepared for that. But fortunately or unfortunately TCS came later to campus. I couldn't attend as I was already selected for L & T. Infact, I was the only guy from MCA to have got selected for L & T. It was just before the Y2K year and so, L &T didn't give me project and worse kept postponing my date of joining. Thus, I lost atleast 7/8 months and I joining in 24-Jan-2004. What impression will I get about such a company. I didn't have much positive about L & T when I joined there. Neither the work was good.

By about the end of 2000, I was given an option of going to Mumbai for ERP training. I was not much interested in that and meanwhile, I got an offer from my present company. But Nobody from my batch except me wanted to give a chance at the interview even. And some of the managers whom I consulted didn't recommend me to join too. Anyway I decided to take it more for satisfying my ego. The market was good then and so I was of the opinion that I can switch out if I find it unfitting to me. The rest is history. Then came the recession and getting a job even in India became difficult for about 3 yrs until offshoring picked up by 2004.

Throughout, I had tried to take the road less travelled (or atleast that was the only option for me) and it never proved to be better. Nevertheless, I would like to travel the road less travelled as that is what I feel will make the difference (the difference what Baskar is be it good or bad).