Life after college

Apr'04: Worst time of my life, it was then my student life to an end. The poor academics throughout my school and college took me no where. Its obvious that I did not do well in my studies coz I am passionate about music, in fact crazy about it and wished to pursue a career in the field of music dreaming to become like A.R Rahman one day (ha ha ha how foolish I was). After hearing my proposal to pursue a career in music my parents gave me dirty look as if I was trying to become a porn star or something...Like every other Indian parents they did not give a damn about my dreams and passion, all they want me is to byheart what ever the crap printed in the text books and vomit it on the answer sheet. My poor little brains did not give room for anything else apart from music.




May'04: I started looking for a job (not out of my own interest) but just to get away from my parents criticism, however I wasn't able to get through any of the interviews due to the my poor academic records. It was the time when my neighbors & father's friends gave me spiritual and motivational thoughts as if I was about to commit suicide of not getting a job. If had a machine gun I'm sure I would have killed everybody in one round of firing but all I could do was to tell them in a lower voice Fuck off you crazy son of a ***** (some texts missing)


June'04: I hardly read newspapers, sometimes I do read it just to gaze at super sports models particularly Anna kournikova. Anyways whether I like it or not I have to go through the recruitment section at least to save my ass by getting a job. It was like climbing mount everest for me even to get a interview call after scoring so bad throughout my academics top of that my poor little brains had no clue where to begin with. One of my Intellectual friend ( even now I wonder how I got his friendship) briefed me about the booming call center industry he suggested me to give a shot at any of the top notch BPO's however it wasn't easy either to get a job in top notch call centers, the first eligibility criteria is to speak fluent English (I told myself clean bowled). I knew the probability of getting a job in leading BPO's is very less, in fact I was kicked out in the first round of the interview just because of the fucking american accent. I wanted to tell the HR person hey loser I am not a native English speaker neither you then why the hell you act like an American by tripping and flipping your tongue you......(some texts are missing)


July'04: It was the time lots of BPO's mushroomed in most parts of the city and there was huge demand for voice process (Basic requirement is speak to English or 'English like') so that the person (usually customers in US & UK) on the other end shouldn't feel he/she is talking to an alien from another planet or something...so it OK for the B grade companies to recruit people who can speak at least little bit of English, this is where I exactly fit.


Aug'04: Day by day things got worst at home I couldn't help indulging in verbal war with my parents when the question is about my job. I am an emotional kind of guy misunderstood my parents feelings and decided to run away from home, again I couldn't execute the plan as I didn't even have a single penny in my pocket.


Sep'04: " Chennai" I thought it was the best destination for a person like me to get into the call center industry. Though Chennai is the intellectual capital of India, the city barely had English speaking community then (Not any more) for the first time in my entire life my plan worked out I did get a job in the BPO sector after many hardships and my first salary was 6000 bucks excluding 2000 bucks as the incentive.