Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Tough decisions

There are many moments in life that we all are afraid to finally face.

Tough decisions that have to be made.
I had to unfortunately make one such decision today.

A flash shower from the skies on a perfectly sunny day.
It poured cats and dogs for just two minutes; like the heavens were marking a point in history that is the unfortunate end of an era, leaving us gaping at the probable future.

I wonder what lies ahead.
Life is the determinant of a complex matrix that is filled up by the decisions that we make, they say.
I hope this decision tilts the scales towards the positive.
More importantly, I hope i can live with this.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Job Market

Why do they call it a job market when there isn't actually one?


There's a hundred 'HR agencies' as they call themselves in India who are filled with mind f***ed employees who's job is to call freshers day and night and offer them call centre jobs.
I wonder if they ever realized that if they were to do the same thing themselves at a real call centre, they'd make a better living. But no, they don't want to be working in a call centre. They are 'HR executives' .

That brings me back to the point. The hub of technology as they call it, Bangalore. Also plays host to one of the biggest industrial estates in Asia; but there are no decent job openings for mechanical engineers; except for marketing jobs in the same field. There's another pointer to you'HR executives'. Marketing jobs are not core mechanical jobs. Just because the target company is named XYZ tools, it doesn't make a tool sales job anything more than a marketing job. If things don't go all that well, I may find myself in one of these tool sales jobs in the end, so, no offense to cutting tool companies, but this situation is frustrating.

Hoping to find a solution soon. I believe this is what every new mechanical engineer, or at least the vast majority are facing. I will keep you folks posted about the same through the same blog should I find a solution.

For now, it's a frustrated Rakesh signing off........