Ma Professional History

This post is to keep keep a track of how my professional graph has been moving as soon I finished studies. To put into other words I did not finish studies as am still a student, i.e am persuins MS in Mobile Communication and Internet Technologies. As soon as I finished my diploma I decided to take up job and continue studying parallelly. Later I finished my Engineering with flying colours and now am up to my PG. This post would tell you as to how my professional life has shaped up till now, to be frank I still feel I am not getting my worth of everything that matters. Here you go

My first Job: Must be somewhere in the month of June 2003, I joined as a service Engineer at a small company in Rajaginagar, where we used to deal with Intercom systems (EPABX) of Accord the anolog model and Matrix the digital model of the available systems and several different versions of these systems aswell. I worked for a span of 3 months as a service engineer with a very meagre pay. I had to travel a lot attending customer calls throughout bangalore. I was put up at chandapura on Hosur road and this office was in rajajinagar which was a round 35 Kms. Apart from the distance from my home to the office I used to travel around 70 kms per day resulting upto 130-140 kms a day including the distance from my home. WOW!!! U know what It was nothing but nonsence. Not a great option to start with. Anyways I learnt a lot from that job. I got to know about bangalore well and learnt art of managing and handling people. What ever i say the first job is always a great experience.

My Second Job: Kaveri Telecom, a telecom based company where i worked as a Junior engineer. It was a company which dealt with telecom products such as repeaters, frequency translators, filters, duplexers, antennaes, etc from design to a finished product. I was into the R&D wing and doing quiet well. I wasnt an engineer by then, and the place I was full of engineers. This motivated me and many ways to do engineering. Untill I got this new boss named GANESH, oh man I can never forget his name ever. He literally screwed everyons happyness so so was mine. I was moved to production wing, made to work in shifts and overtimes without benifits. By that time had felt am at a very wrong place and wanted to move out. So I had started to look out for options and networking was a great field then so decided let me move into that field and joined a networking course at ROOMAN Technologies on DVG Road to gear my self up. I had to go to that class by 7 pm but this new boss of mine would never leave me. I decided enough is enough and quit that job. I stayed around 6 months there.

My Third Job : I told u I was doing a course in networking , so by this knowledge I got myself into a Call center. This was called Mainstay Teleservices. a UK based call center supporting TIME/TINY computers in the UK. I was into ISP tech support and the name of this was "Supanet". HA HA HA. Later I moved into TIME/TINY tech support ie another process in the same office which was more technical. I had a great reputation there and getting a handsome pay by that time. I was being look upto in many ways and was greatel appreciated for my work. The only problem here was to work in shifts. I worked for about 8 months and there was words of me becoming a team lead. But by that time my dream of doing engineering had succeeded , I hot the 18 rank in CET and had got a merit seat in UCVE, so had to quit this job, else I could not attend college. People did not want to leave me but I had to quit. This was a great exp for me where in I got an exposure to deal with international people.

My Fourth Job : Joined SVS Designs on Bannerghatta Road, as a junior engineer for a negotiable pay as completing studies was a priority then. I used to attend office from morning 8 to 4 and go to college from 5. This place was a very small place where they used to develop and produce products needed by BSNL exchanges such as timers, power supplies etc. This was a time pass kinda job but was ok. was very close to my house and was able to study. Was here for around say 6-8 months I guess.

My Fifth Job: I got a better offer from one of the companies in Jayanagar, and the domain was Supply Chain management. and the client was i2 technologies, but was at a vendor place called Adarsh Solutions. Was called a sourcing specialist, wa sourcing information across globe pertaining to electronics components and modules. Was going great guns and was far far ahead in the way I work from the lot already there. I was very happy with the work I do and so was the management with my work. I was looked upto and was a model for others . Was having a great time working there. I was there for around 9 months. I would have not quit this company, if something really great had not happened. I was able to manage college and office as I used to go at night to office. Then came this big oppurtunity of being a part of GOVT OF INDIA.

My Sixth Job: I was kind of bored of changing jobs and wanted a permant one to settle down i life. Then came this oppurtunity of being a part of Indian Defense and being a part of Govt of India. Got a job in CQAL. Ministry of Defence (DGQA) Govt of India. Was being called by some name and posted in bangalore itself in telecommunication wing. The job profile was ok not that great and the domain was into Quality assurance. I was used to the corporate world by this time and the rate at with they work and rate at which Govt works is uncomparable. Govt has its own way of working and set mindsets which would not change at any cost. The place was fine for timepass, but if u wanted to make it big that was not the place. i could have stayed there for the rest of my life without worrying and could have led a calm and a peaceful life. But I was not happy here and wanted to move out. Me being a brahmin and getting a Govt job was a dream. And when i said I wanted to move out people say I was insane. Well I just wanted to move, felt was a wrong place.

My Seventh and Current job : Now am here at Arthur J Gallagher a US based MNC, and now am being called a CNC administrator and work domain is JD Edwards which is a application software. The pay is good and so is job. Am pretty ok here till date and would not want to change the domain. I hope I would not be changing this job unless I get a drastic hike and offer from another company.

Thats my professional graph till date. Wish I will be a man who others would look upto some day!!!