yipeee I m soooo happy!!!!

“Congratulations on Completion of 1 year in Aricent (9-June-2008)”,
Said the subject of the mail. Whoa… did I join Aricent on the 9th of July? I had to flip through the soft copy of my joining letter to confirm. I had been so sure that it was the 12th of July. But out of the 30/31 days of the month why did this 12 remain in memory? Of course because 12 April was the date on which I had joined my first company naukri.com 3 yrs earlier. I was still bonded to naukri from my heart. Though the name of the company changed but the date had stayed.
So here I am, already in my second year in this company. Time does fly… with the speed of light in this case. The mail congratulating me on completion of 1 yr in Aricent just about manages to induce a tiny smile on my face. The first sly thought sneaks in. I smirk and ponder “I can safely look for a job change now. My CV is again looking great with more stability on it”.

Damn us s/w people and damn our industry. We s/w developers are like vagabonds… on the move all the time. We stop at an oasis that offers lucrative take homes and kind of work that has all the latest buzz words. The moment we have exhausted the resources of that oasis or we feel the oasis is really not all that green as it appeared to be, we move on. Some of us leave an oasis just for the heck of it because all the others are moving to greener pastures. But more on that some time later…

Here I am writing about my emotional being on the completion of 1 yr in my second company. How should I be feeling? Exhilarated, honored, experienced, delighted…I felt none of this. However hard I tried, emotions of any sort refused to surface. Since I had reached office a little earlier than usual and my manager was yet to come in, the day dragged on like any other day.

Some how I am the kind of person who doesn’t care about birthdays and anniversaries… I have to try and make myself feel good. Someone once told me these are very special days not to be missed on any account. From then on I started the ritual of lengthy preparations, loads of shopping and loud singing of my approaching bday at least 15 days in advance. All this ado finally leads to a delighted “pallavi” on the birthdays.

But here I had done none of that. So all I could feel was “I can change my job now” feeling. I desperately tried to feel something else after all it is not every day that you complete 1 year in your second company. The magnanimity of the moment demanded from me a lot more of emotions that I currently exhibited. I decided enough was enough and I didn’t want to be a zombie devoid of any feelings of a normal late twenties female s/w developer. I would have to take the matter in my own stride.

So I picked up my phone and called up a dozen of my friends and relative to let them know of the feat. Whether they felt it or were just infused with my extra enthusiastic call, they all congratulated me by heart and wished me good luck for future (Some even suggesting that I could look for a change now J ). Then I opened my mail box and mailed the news to all of my chat/mail/fwd friends and got similar kind of response.

Finally at the end of the day I was feeling like a princess though the kingdom was built into thin air and would disappear any time. This taught me an important lesson. Whether I have completed 1 yr or 1 yr 15 days 5 hrs 17 sec in Aricent, what matters is not the time or occasion but my state of mind. Happiness is a state of mind and can be achieved any time/any place. I have decided I would rather be happy than just being a zombie… it feels so robotic otherwise.

Oh my seventh blog done finally… yipeee I m soooo happy!!!!