Long while eh?

Yeah its been a while since my last post. 3 months? Lots has happened in between . Lotsa good things and a few bad things.So this is going to be another long post. Atleast I hope so. I never realised how much of a job it is writing a blog. Then again, this is more like a record for me than something i enjoy doing(atleast for the time being) so I guess its bound to feel a little dreary.

Ok, let's see Way back in March, just after my last post, someone I know made a very interesting offer to me. It involved me shifting base from Hyderabad to Nagpur- something i wouldnt have minded if the work(and pay :-D) was good! So I went to Nagpur, checked out the place and the job and the offer(nearly 3 times my then salary).I come back to Hyd and my boss calls me to tell me he wants to talk to me. So I go meet him on a Saturday(when the office is closed btw) where he offers me a pay equivalent to the Nagpur offer plus 3 more. The only hitch was that half was cash and half was stock encashable at the end of the year. Funny na-- get paid peanuts for the greater part of a year and then suddenly everybody wants to give me money :-)

After a lot of talking and thinking, I turned down the Nagpur offer.

That was difficult. That offer also involved teaching as well as the freedom to run my website and to use the resources of my workplace!! What more could i ask for?? Plus they promised to pay for my MBA if i stuck around for three years(an offer matched by my Hyd boss though he didnt give it in writing but then neither did my nagpur boss) and the fact that I'd come back to Hyd in just about a year's time or less. My biggest concern was what I would actually be doing in Nagpur and the fact that it was Nagpur. If I think Hyd's a dead place and I should get outta here, nagpur's worse even by my standards.

Anyway, Nagpur got a No and Hyd got a Yes

I got an interview call from TISS!!

That was thrilling!! I was just glad I got a call from somewhere.Something to show for a year's work. Something to prove "Hey me good too!!"

Turns out they called 750 candidates for 60 seats with the usual reservation thrown in. Given that I was an engineer in a software company, well, you know what my chances were.

Moving on. Somewhere in end April, I got ripped off :-( . A kid mailed me with questions, paid up, and received the solutions. Two days later, he cancelled the payment. A friend told me that 100% of Online-Frauds are committed by Indians or Pakistanis. Unfortunately, this kid was definitely one of them so................................

And finally, one day I was just randomly surfing the net checking out a Free Online Collaboration tool when I chanced upon a post. 1 thing led to another, and I just might be coming into some serious money. Finally!! And the timing couldnt have been more perfect. I was almost going to shut this down since money only seemed to be going out and not coming in. Just keeping my fingers crossed now!!

Hmm, not so long after all. Anyway who cares :-)