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My Journey

2013-10-23T14:44:00.003-07:00

Wow, my journey till date has been eventful. Being a hater of computer or as I used to say it "Big Jumbo Box" to the day Google contacted me for interview. It's a proud moment for me, even if just call for interview from Google.

I come from Bombay(Mumbai), India now living in L.A. In my place where I grew up, we study until 10th grade in school then 2 years in junior college and then Degree college, it could be 3 or 4 years. 12th Std is the year when you decide what you want to do with your career. It a decision that you make and stays with you forever, in most cases.

Coming back to me, as a kid I always wanted to be an airplane pilot. That was the only dream I had. I had a small tragedy when I was in 7th grade, cause of which and other reasons including money I could not achieve my dream to be a pilot. When I finished 12th Std I wanted to go to Mechanical Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering, but at that time Computer Engineering and related degrees were in such a form that my parents wanted me to go in that field so I have good future. May be because of that, from start I had no interest in learning about computers. In all the engineering I just loved one subject from bottom of my heart which was Engineering Drawing and I was actually really good at it and I still am. Even after 8 or 9 years, I can still do Isometric and Orthographic drawings, some other mathematical subjects that I used to like. Other than that never liked computer science subjects at all. Meanwhile in 2nd year of engineering I visited Infosys as part of Industrial Visit program in our college. It became my dream company after visiting it. But still I hated CS.

Years passed by (Only 4 years, just trying to sound like way to many years), I finished engineering. I tired to give interview for Infosys as their selection process includes aptitude test and no technical interview, best for me as I was pretty good at aptitude test and was confident about clearing it. The company came to our college for hiring engineers. I was not eligible as my academic progress was very weak, still I went there and literally begged them to at least let me appear for the test and then decide. Hard Luck!!

After engineering I sat home for six months did nothing absolutely nothing. Just gave GRE exam, that too because my friend was giving it. Whooola, after 6 months Infosys called me for an interview and test. I was confident that I would clear aptitude and I did, gave the interview and then they hired me after 1 month. I was excited, I was on the top of the world. Because that was the job any engineering student would die to get. It was really proud moment for me and my entire family. particularly my parents were happy as they knew my progress and my hatred towards CS. Me and my father admire the company and the founders, I should say entire nation. They are the most honest most humble people in Indian Business world, yet they were successful entrepreneur. This combination is rarely seen in the world I would say. There I successfully completed the training and got in a project. Here you go CS hater, this is real world handle it if you can. I started working, it was really intense, I was working hard but output was not as great, my approach towards day to day problems were not efficient. I had little or no time to understand anything. I was totally disappointed in myself. I knew down my heart I was not going anywhere. I was stuck.

Then after working there for 1 year and half year I decided to come to US for MS. My thought process behind this was, I would finish my MS and get job that would pay me around 60k. Commercial Pilot License costs you around 40k with all the required flying hours. Still 20k left for me to enjoy my life. Did not even think of any expenditure anything at all. How foolish. In life nothing is as easy as it seems. You have to always work hard for anything and everything. MS was very eventful too. Depression, Job Loss (Because of my lack of interest in SW dev), Car accident to company closing down, went through all this and finally got a job at Wolters Kluwer, Inc. To be very honest this is the company where I actually started loving Software Development and other aspects of it.

I wrote all this because I got a call from Google for interview. I couldn't be more happier than this. From CS hater to Google Interview call. I have come a long long way man!

Just off topic I love M5 and here is pic from Autoblog

LA County Fair

2012-10-01T19:36:00.002-07:00

It was an amazing experience at the LA County Fair. Not because it was a great fair, but because caught up with all the CSUSB friends.

In the morning I was talking to my colleague, about me going to the fair. First thing he warned me was, DO NOT EAT FOOD AT THE FAIR. I thought it wouldn't be that bad as he sounded. I kept that in mind, and told my self anyways I am going their for a Giant Hot Dog so wont be that bad.

Around 8:30PM I was there at the admissions counter, and was searching where all my friends from San Bernardino would be standing for me. OoooooHaaaaa my friend comes screaming from my back, which scared me to death and angered me which I controlled. My aim was to first go to the food stall and eat Hot Dog. Which I did. I paid $7 for a very bad tasting hot dog. I really hated it. But eventually I eat the giant hot dog, which was really good in taste and not as greasy.

Giant Hot Dog at juicy

As everyone was really hungry, they got something big. One of my friend got a BIG corn dog, I did have a bite of that, and I now at this moment I realized why my colleague told me not to have food. It was greasy a lot. Another friend of my got a Jumbo French Fries, other won got Turky Leg.

After everyone was done with eating, we all headed towards the back of the fair. I was going through all the stalls that were there and they all look rustic and all look like everything came from farms. But then I realized that, the very concept of fair was to present your cattle and attract people to buy dairy or farm products from you. In the midst of modernization the idea of hosting county fairs has lost its way. Somewhere farmers are loosing their fair share of contribution to the society.

Here is my Link for all the pics from my G+ account. LA County Fair Pics

A Long Funn Day

2009-11-11T18:53:00.000-08:00

It was just good. I met all the Catholic Newman Club Members from Cal State Pamona, Longbeach. It was a fun event. Got to know new people. Enjoyed the kick ball game.

I Me Myself for the first time together on this Blog

2009-11-10T20:50:00.000-08:00

Welcoming my self in the Bloggers world. This is My first Blog. I got this idea of Start blogging, when I saw my friend blogging. And the same day i wanted to start. But it was kind of bad day and I dint want to start my blog with all depressing writing. Blogging it good idea to express yoursefl to the world with no limitation. Just open up your mind wowwww.