Recession, Me and My First Blog.

In India almost 80% parents or more than that want their kids to be doctors or engineers. And I was born in a similar kind of family.

After fun filled 12 years of school life. It was time for me to decide. I didn’t have very good grades or very high percentage in my 12^th but still I got admission into an engineering college. Thanks to all these private engineering colleges spread all over the NCR getting an engineering degree wasn’t that tough. At least I took a subject of interest Computer Science. And being a "Computer Engineer" just sounded good, so I decided to be one.

My college was situated in Gurgaon and I am not talking about gurgaon city. This place was actually situated in a gaon, a village in gurgaon which was 60 km from my place and that meant 120 km of traveling in a day for four years sometimes by bus ,sometimes by cabs, some times driving on your own and other variants. If I would have traveled that much in one go I would have reached the moon. The next four years were certainly not the best four years of my life. With marginal and short attendances I somehow completed my eight semesters. And after completing my final sem I was almost a “computer engineer” I was posting my CV’s distributing them to my friends, family and any other person in my field of work. As my college provided us with benches a building n sometimes a faculty and students getting placed or not was not their concern.

The big question "When companies are kicking out their own employees how can they hire you? "…the recession.

Nowadays I wake up 12:30 pm in the morning (sorry afternoon!) rubbing my eyes going to the loo doing all the daily stuff then I sit back in front of my PC and go through random known/unknown face book profiles(mostly females) and sometimes I admire my own profile for 20 to 25 mins :)

Its 2pm I m having my breakfast mum is back home she asks "if this is your breakfast when will be your lunch?? Are you enjoying your winter vacations?? ".

I don’t respond I am habituated to all this. Remote in my hand I m surfing through channels Zee Studio: Sliding Doors, MTV: Hell Down Under, Aastha: Some baba doing yoga ..n so on ..

Recession made me lazy, Recession made me a couch potato.

I am back to my PC watching ice age the 3^rd time.

Recession made me a movie buff, a movie critic, a movie analyst. I can watch up to four movies in a single day, I love it though.

It’s 6.30 pm I go for pool and some old school friends and a few more we play, we bet, we win, we loose. Recession made me gambler too.

I am back home, dad is back from work too. I say “hello”. No Responses .He is busy watching CNBC watching those indexes going down. He doesn’t say anything but I can read his facial expressions, I can read those questions....

“What have you planned??”

“Are you doing something constructive??”

“What about MBA?”

I have dinner. I am back to my PC reading random blogs , stupid newsletters, no use on- job training emails. I am awake till 2am reading random stuff.

Recession made me a Night Owl.

And Recession made me write My First Blog. ;)

I hope the next time you read a blog by me its about me being associated with a good brand. Or me getting into a good B-school.

Ciao.