Saturday, August 27, 2005

Hmm

So finally in The United States of America.
This has not been an easy journey so far. Hope the future is better.
It was a very complicated procedure.
Qustions arise as to why i wanna go to US. Well this has many reasons but none of them the conventional ones. Let me list down the reasons.
1) I don't think i can do well in a conventional job. Rather i can do well in a job which is like looking after a garden, and that has no deadlines, and fixed 9-5 schedule. But then this kind of job is rare, not highly paid and worst not even looked upon nicely. Staying in teaching profession seems to be a solution and best part of it is that i can still get summer and autumn vacations..

2) Reason 1 leaves me with only 3 choices after my BE. Gate / GRE / Appearing for MSc and teaching in KV. well again perception of other people and society came and had to leave the 3rd choice. Tried my hand at first but no good. you have to be really good to get into even IIT, forget IISc and landing there might not be of much use. That left me with the obvious.

3) Were these two the only reason? Definitely not. There was another reason. again people's perception. Saw such terrible reaction on people's faces when i said am from infy. As if it is some dustbin company. even in infy, when i say from NITK, people say what are u doing here???? So i had to do something different. I chose this. And now people think oh wow, how good Sandipan is..... But frankly i enjoyed infy....


But then are these reasons good enough to put so much money at stake and come here, though i can now say that things are resolved to a certain extent. What else could have been the reasons which would have been typical good boy types?
1)"The first word out of my mouth after i was born was 'control systems' "??? People do say this.
But i can't.
2) " I was born for a free society". well i am not that kind.
3) " I wanna earn loads". I said i am happy as a gardener.

Then what drove me...??? A compromise between my interest and perception of people??? might be. But people only say don't care about what other's say...
am totally confused