My mentor recommended me to promoters of a sales outsourcing company in Delhi. I joined as a finance guy but was to work on strategic agendas. It looked like a force-fit role since they already had a CA working as a finance controller. For the first month, I stayed at…

I changed two jobs in less than 9 months of quitting my first job. The first one was with a large Indian Insurance company- a joint venture with a global conglomerate. My role seemed a minuscule one that lacked any purpose and meaning. I worked at consolidating (of course intelligently)…

The first two years at the first job (2005–07) were eventful. I traveled for 2 hours to work carrying the 14-inch wide and 8 kg heavy laptop hanging from one of my shoulders. Backpacks were not yet popular back then while going to work. At work, every assignment was the…

In June 2005, I completed the coursework requirement for the Doctoral program at NITIE. Bored as a full-time student, I decided to find a job with a company. Turned out to be a waste of time, as I could not find a job that my skills would fit into. …

One of my MBA batchmates visits me at the college. I was surprised and happy that he came to see me while I faired poorly in my socialization skills. We hardly talked much during our MBA years. …

I got my first job in a walk-in interview. I remember scantily but the staff room assigned for the candidates was crowded and lacked enough chairs to seat all. My naive probability calculations hinted at me getting the job as a Black Swan event. My turn comes around 4 p.m…

When I opted to be salesguy in my 40s Last year in November, I asked for a sales role after failing to relate to the Operation profile outlined to me. I am 45 years old without any sales experience and was sure to be refused. …

I believe I have cracked the happiness code, at least for myself. What is the happiness code for me Being unreasonable at all times? Elaborating “unreasonable”: a. Slowdown: “There is more to life than increasing its speed”- Mahatma Gandhi. …

Discovering myself as a personality I have struggled to understand myself. Ask me about my strengths and I may fail to talk of any traits that makes me out-of-league. In my early 20s, I could relate to believing in “high thinking and simple living”. …