!! On a saturday night !!
!!
On a saturday night !!
I have opened my blog after a very long
time . As I do on most of the weekends today cooked along with my
roommate , Started with dinner and was searching for something which we
could play on Tv. Very Casual dinner talk started from how is your work, to previous
employer to college days.
After my friend
shared few things about his college days , Final year project etc, it was my
turn to share and it was quite some time I have never shared these things to
any one ( I used to do it in my initial days of employment). When I was
in 3year -2 semesters more than 9 years back Me along with Sai & Sahoo I
was working on building mobile applications using (c#..etc) later we
participated in a contest called Iunlockjoy were we won Lumia phones as a
return gift for submitting mobile apps to market place. I was Microsoft Student
partner and was also participating/attending sessions from Microsoft MVPs .
Later I started working with a small startup and developed few mobile apps.As
part of MSP program I was presenter in DreamSpark Yatra both in warangal and
hyderabad. . I was presenting about mobile apps I developed in warangal and
about other project in Hyd. I remember days 9 years ago where I first heard
about device called Kinect and started working on building Kinect applications
around the same time was also working on Robotic studio iRobot(Rumba) .I could
still remember the days where we used to have a small couch we(sai, sahoo, me)
used to sit and desperately searching for things because we never was trained
about Kinect application development or Robotic studio and learning on those
couch trying different things all possible things we found relevant over net.
At that time Kinect was really new into the market and there was not much help
over net. After few days With lot of effort we made Kinect part of the project
and robotic part of the project ( Basically we could read the inputs from Kinect
and do some actions depending upon the movement of the object wrt to Kinect
part and using robotic studio we are able to operate i Roomba with keyboard
keys) But integrating the inputs from Kinect to actions on iRobot was really a
great challenge for us. I remember Sai Used to travel daily from narsapur to
Begumpet and me, Sahoo were living with in th city we had that comfort. And
sitting in the same couch because it is closer to modem and power point so easy
to connect to Kinect and I rumba together. Searching hell lot of things on our
laptops and doing actual trials on sai s laptops. .I remember three
continuous days from morning to eve we were trying different different things
nothing was working , we were reading all possible msdn documents and over net.
on the 4th day when we kind of found what we was searching for and after making
few tweaks to those function and when we tested and when I rumba just
moved(jerked a bit) when it encountered sahoos action before Kinect, it felt
like happiness, WOW IT FELT LIKE SUCCESS, It gives you so much
pride and hell lot of energy, I feel that is really real happiness because I
could still feel it when I was sharing this to my roommate. Among
same days when Microsoft conducted Windows 8 beta relase at park hotel Hyderabad
they also conducted 24 hours hackathon, I dont know how I stayed awake overnight
and I built an desktop app on windows 8, I agree it was very very simple app, whoever
completed an app they could present it on the dais, I don’t know how come I got
the courage because there were MVP's , MSPs students, Microsoft employees
(guiding the participants) was there I stepped on to that dais and presented.
Only 9 or 10 people did that. I remember when I was introducing myself
not even with fluent english that I am studying 4 th year in so n so colleges,
I remember people in the front row smiling like giving like 'Awwww' look.After
that presentation amount of pride & Satisfaction &most
importantly the happiness that I had was unexpresable, isn't it the real
happiness because I still feel it Its not a big deal for few I see few
school going kids doing really interesting projects over news they are Greater
minds. Pushing your borders isn't it the real happiness & Success!!
And then after graduation joined ADP and
became oracle DBA like typical engineering student and then to wells Fargo,
Techwave/itility/ASML as PaaS engineer and now with ING as DbaaS
engineer. I learned a lot enjoyed a lot faced multiple challenges through
this professional career, I learned alot/tried few automations with the
fresh grad energy at ADP , Had few moments to cherish/ feeling of
satisfaction at Wells Fargo & Great. And Different
challenges at ASML , ING like leading a team, working more on infra &
automation & Devops etc. Am I really enjoying the Happiness now as I
used to do during my Bachelors and explained in above para. Am I really
pushing the boundaries I used to do in BTech, to be frank No. Even though I am
working decently on the things which interests me do I have that Joy in this
settled Multinational JOB? DO I have that joy from couch now in this
comfortable office chairs ? Now should I consider myself Successful and
Happy ?
Should I just believe in destiny &
Go where it takes, How many of you feel the same ?
<who ever was reading until this
point Sorry for this very unsorted narration of thoughts, I wrote as they was
flowing in. Hope you got the gist if not sorry these thoughts are FROM A USUAL
SATURDAY NIGHT>
