So here is a professional in front of you possessing hard-core experience of four years in IT industry. It may not mean anything else but one for sure that those in IT industry will start taking me more seriously because still I am hopeless that just by having a look at me anyone will realize my maturity. So these are the thoughts about what can be reaction in industry on achievement of this feat.

Personally I think that nothing has changed inside me except the feeling of keep getting better. Throughout these four years, I have been striving to be better and learn what others are still thinking of happening. To the core of my knowledge, my feeling has always been that I am quite ahead of others in industry at same level. Only thing that kept me inspired for that is not to look at my experience or number of years I have spent in IT. Keep moving forward, learning the things which are still evolving and then see them in action in coming time. The outcome has been equally fruitful when I have been considered able enough to handle the tasks and positions taken care of only by the veterans in industry.

At this point, was recalling the time when I was a young committed and struggling fresher (good ol’ 2004 @ Punjabi University), looking out for one good job. Used to go through the news-papers, job websites for openings and kept wondering why all companies want to hire experience professionals, among them also majority of the jobs were for 3 year experienced. Me and my friend Dot always speculated as if a professional turns into God for IT companies after possessing experience of three years in this industry. This thing disturbed me that time and equally itches me at the present. Why does experience matters so much in private sector – at some point, this notion needs to be changed. In fact, that speculation about 3-year experienced professional stands even today though with a bit less certainty, I must say. It is true that with time a professional gets mature with the rituals of trade and the notions but I have noticed in case of myself and couple of others who possessed more maturity & knowledge after completion of first year than those goodish three year specialists – thanks to companies like Infosys which believe in similar thinking as of mine and train their employees in such professional environment. My whole thank goes to Infosys and my mentors@Infy for the career path I have been following. There needs to be more companies like Infosys which recognize creativity of young professionals, train/nurture them and nourish them to make rest of the world wonder on the capabilities of these grown-up lads!

So here goes three cheers to my completion of four years, Infosys and the unknown future ahead.

…I used to blog as I am never going to stop but it happened. Although not stopped, paused. A pause for 2 months because in those two months I saw thickest and thinnest of my career…in other words, the peak and the trough of mah career wave.

For those who can make it out, digest as well as understand…just a nod will work ( ), I saw my firm closing down, got unavoidable employment opportunity to become a US employee, visa stamped and then… I refused.

Remained on hunt for a suitable job (in other words jobless) for couple of weeks after resign, and then landed with best opportunity anyone could have after coming out of CashEdge.

CashEdge has closed it operations at Gurgaon. I managed to get couple of good offers and finally zeroed down at Chandigarh, also known as City Beautiful and presently residing at Mohali (neighboring city).

All these things happened in span of 4 months after my return from US in March. Managed to keep up with blogging for almost two months somehow but then, everything broke down with me for next two months.

So this is the summary of those two quiet months of my professional life as I am too … to describe it completely but pretty sure that it can explain my 60 day silence which looks quite small in front of turns I went through.

And there was this friend who was going through similar phases of life almost at the time and now resuming with life as I am. All the best to you too dear.

I am on the verge of completing one month at present org and wanted to thank couple of people who helped me to get acquainted here with work, environment and the city – the guys for whom I was unknown entity a month back and today, we are good mates. The list includes mostly my office mates.

• Ajay Dhanwal – first guy to share and clarify everything I was curious about
• Neeraj – first person from my project meeting me on the eve of joining
• Lasar – the one who knew everything about project and I was lucky to be seated adjacent to him troubling him a lot for very first week
• Darshan & Rohit – only HR guys who gave me chance to mix up and feel homely at org – only ones who know every detail about me…you know what I am talking about
• Amit Kumar – one who had interviewed me and later mixed up like a close friend
• Rajinder – you all know him if you have been regular visitor of this blog – my colleague from previous company
• Ashish Mehta – my really nice manager
• Nitin Sharma – should I call him my first mentor here or a gentle personality as both apply to him equally
• Kulvir Singh – Senior guy as he was referred to and later was made joke of same
• Nikhilesh – my cousin who helped me in settling down with busy city
• Manoj – an architect, far away, as excited about project as I am (or should I say he made me to be so activated) and the one who has thinking view of a developer while being an architect
• Jatinder Bawa – he definitely knows something about me, is all I would say. Thank you Jatinder for being so cool every time we interacted.
• DJ
• Jatinder Mishra
• Ajay Kumar
• Sunil Kumar
• Mohit
• Ajit
• Sandeep Mahajan
• Yogesh

I am trying to continue the trend started by me when 2006 was ending. To summarize the things in the way that you can recall them later, more easily than ever.

Here is the first series of that kind (you can also find same list for last year) -

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
   1. Continued my job for 2 years (of course that is an achievement when it is for first in 3 years of career)
   2. Completed NetAmp application – an app to play music over network
   3. Found my love
   4. Traveled abroad / US (Writing from there only)
   5. Visited Disneyland and Universal Studios
   6. Watched lot and lot of movies (I still can’t believe that I managed to watch 50 movies in 2 months!)
   7. Visited Historical Monuments in Capital nearby
   8. Met with old time mate (Happy)
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

   Oh yes I kept it. I don’t have habit of leaving impossible things like that. If it couldn’t be done in 2006, it was kept in 2007. Hey Krishna, are you listening? Of course, making another one for year 2008 and this time, again it is next to impossible for a person like me!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

   Luckily NO.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

   No.

5. What countries did you visit?

   US

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

   Remembrance (I think it isn’t about resolution)

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory?

   27/07/2007, 04/12/2007 and 13/12/2007 (all sum up to mah lucky number as I have realized just now)

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

   Discovered Love

9. What was your biggest failure?

   Umm…None.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

    Yes. Cough and Cold for quite long time during Cricket World Cup

11. What was the best thing you bought?

    I never buy things rather I present them to myself – 2 GFs / Laptops (dv9502 and dv6500t CTO NB) and 2 External HDDs (160 GB LACIE and 1 TB Western Digital)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
    1. Jo
    2. Ritu
    3. Puneet’s laughs
    4. Pankaj’s company during celebrations
    5. Nitesh Gupta for wonderful rides
    6. My Brother
    7. Archana for wonderful compliment
    8. Happy
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

    Three of mah colleagues

14. Where did most of your money go?
    1. Laptops
    2. External HDDs
    3. Clothes
    4. Movies
    5. Coffee
    6. Food
    7. Discotheques
    8. Shelter
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    1. Love

Oh, I didn’t realized that I have completed two big years at CashEdge on Wednesday (January 16, 2008). It appears really a big achievement to me when I look back to the golden time spent here while befriending many good people and learning so many things.

By now, I have been into two different Tech domains and learnt 3 different technologies while retaining same functional domain. If I was kinda expert (although I don’t exactly mean that) in one, I got to learn two completely new leading industry platforms which has been really wonderful experience especially when I am a big lover of Change than mere Designations!

When I am calling a learning curve, I literally mean that its been a curve outta here. An adventurous and exciting curve! Loving my organization…

Also completed my two years at Gurgaon on January 15, 2008 (Although I am not there physically but still I am paying the rent ). Same day, my bike turned 2 years too. These two years never appeared to be that long while being in company of Chunky, Anuj and Puneet as my room-mates.

Its been really wonderful time spent in these 2 years and as I wished last year, I am looking forward toward longer relationships.