Question for questions,,, how does this matter to me after 15 years?
It was in my first year at Infosys and I was then a Java programmer. Bloody Hell. Studied instrumentation engineering and networking technologies for 4 years but was working on Java programming, struts, dao’s, jsp’s. Jackass. I had to start from the basics again. It was like you manufactured a shirt and just before you could wear it; a vampire (like monster.com, clickjobs.com, naukri.com, freshersworld.com etc) appears and disappears along with your new shirt. In return to your new shirt it gives you a new sheep (like Java Programming) and leaves you in a primitive world (like training center, ILI etc) where every route takes you to the stage where you begin to weave wool, make fibre, make thread, make cloth and stitch your shirt again (basically training n learning n studies all over again,,, crrrrrraaaaaaaaapp!).
I had a number of questions brewing up incessantly for over a period of 10 months. I met a PM in the 10:30PM shift cab. I met the same PM few months later just before he was leaving to Chennai to catch his flight to Canada. He said this to me while boarding his bus to Airport from the campus. “How does it matter to you in 6 years if you are working on java, .net or mainframe? And how does it matter to you in 8 years and 10 years.”
I could never meet that PM again. But his one question had answered and is answering many questions for me even today.
If you want to measure your progress, just count the number of problems you solved.
Sometimes in order to feel your success rate, you have to step into your spectator’s shoes
