!! 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>