The labor day weekend and the 2 weeks blanketing it were awful. There were so many things happening ...and none of them were guaranteed to be beneficial.
*Suddenly the current project was terminated...left with 2 weeks to search up another project
* The rental cars we (me and my desi colleagues) took out for travelling to St.Louis met with a couple of accidents before we decided to come back home (Chicago)..tired and frustrated..
*I lost my debit card ..and actually someone used it to buy something...wow..i tracked the proceedings on the website of BoA (Bank Of America) before suspending the card
*One of the desi consultancies proposed me an abominable offer of 50K pa salary for company change, when there were others in the range of 75K.It was really humiliating.
*Opinions of people (regarding project termination) at home were divided.Most said "do what you feel good"..the rest was like "dont come back..make there or die"
*I gave a good interview for a new project for my existing company (IBM).But they soon realised that Iam too good for their job.
Being a typical 1977 aquarian, Iam proud of my nonchalant, indifferent, detached perspective.However these mudslide of events left me completely flustered. I lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks. And really speaking, no one was there with whom I could relate to all these.
But I survived.And I survived good.
The survival story kicks of fine.
BoA credited all the doubtful transactions to my account pleasing me immensely.
Hertz and Citibank and the insurance companies settled most of our claims and dues for the rental car thing.
The existing project actually got extended by 2 more weeks giving the precious time to look up for other projects.I did get a project in chicago.My project mates landed long term assignments at Florida,Texas and Michigan.So things got settled down.
Those few weeks were really rough.I got ruffled up a lot.And there was a whole lot of tensions boxing me left right and center. The whole world seemed so cruel and unempathetic.No one in sight to help.However, the silver lining was there for sure.Few of the consultancies were eager to help out and transfer my H1B. The job market was looking good.BoA was eager to help.And overall I kept my head on my shoulders.
Hope this experience will help others in their resolution to stick to the battle when hardest hit.
1 comment:
survive we sure did. the unpredictability of life can be both an exciting and depressing thing and we sure are well aware of that.
the experiences we had so far have been exciting, who knows what lies ahead and what life has in store, whatever it is I hope Dudes we have fun in the process.
Stick togethere..Desi Power.
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