When you join any organization as a fresher, you are jus out of college… You are “Raw”… An organization contributes a lot, in moulding you according to corporate work environment… My first organization too, has done a lot to me… Its contribution towards my growth career-wise, cannot be expresses in words…
Yes, I joined my first organization, as a fresher… just out of college… That too, with a whole lot of campus recruits...
So imagine the fun… It took us all nearly 3 whole months to begin serious work… Till then it used to be fun and frolic all the time….
I must say, all people are not as lucky as we were, to land up in an organization that gives a loooong rope for you to settle down to work sincerely!!! I also had my stroke of luck…. To be selected for a project that gave me the experience, and saved me from bitter experiences... J As my Ex-APM rightly put it during my farewell…Good that you were selected for “Project A”, rather than for “Project B”….
Now I must say the reason behind this statement… Projects “A” and “B” started parellelly… when our “Newly Joined” team got into serious work… “Project A” was less pressurizing and more rewarding in terms of knowledge and skills gained…. Project B was a real challenge to your “Stress Management Skills”… Most of the wickets of that team got out one by one, not able to take in the pressure….
Me, being in “Project A”… managed to get through the project successfully… After my debut project, further projects just ran swiftly… We did face worse project pressures after that, but by that time, we were moulded enough to face them easily… Staying late did not trouble me much, as long as there was a safe mode of transportation home… And that, my organization did provide…J
I did make a lot of grave, blatant mistakes in my first projects, and caused a lot of rework… But gud that I ended up learning from mistakes and constantly improving…. J
I reached a stage where I cared more for the project, quality of work, and so on… This is because, as fresh recruits 2 years back, we used to care only about the work allocated to us… No long term or team concerned worries…
Then I reached a stage when I started mentoring people, and entered the phase of knowledge sharing… From then on, there has been no looking back… I enjoyed every bit of my work… The step-by-step process in which I learnt things… Even thinking back about it makes me smile…. I had such a good experience in my first organization…. Quite an unforgettable one…. Once the good experience started to deteriorate for various reasons, I decided its time to move on… I miss my friends there, but I don’t repent moving… I feel, it is only because I moved out at the right time, that I’m able to speak proudly about my past experiences there…
I strongly feel that its better you start moving when your bitter experiences start outnumbering your good experiences… In fact, My Ex-APM said I’m going to repent moving…. I know he’ll not even get a chance to read this blog… But here’s what I have to say to him… “I do not repent for leaving my organization… Its becoz I left at the right time, that I’m able to speak good about it, and feel good about it now… Am happy for that… And am sure gud frends will still keep in contacts, even after I’ve left the organization… And am so thankful to all of you for such a wonderful experience…”
Now, I must tell about another person who had a great impact on me, in my last organization… He was my First TL…I learnt a lot from him… The first time I saw him was when he asked me to stay late night for my first project… I hated him for that, that minute… But its coz of him, mainly… that am in the position I am in, now… Sad part is that, he does not have the slightest idea about the sort of impact he has had on me… And am somewhat feeling naughtily happy about that!!! J
He taught me how to handle work pressure, people pressure, manage work, manage people…. And what not… I started feeling so comfortable working with him, that I used to ask him so many silly doubts which a person would normally not ask his/her TL… I’ve never felt bad, taking up issues to him… Be it small or big, or be it whether its concerning him or not!!! Now, that’s ridiculous, me approaching him for problems he cannot involve himself in, but that shows my comfort-level with him!!! J He’s been my role model…. Though, he does not know about this!!! J He will continue to be my virtual role model… J
Coming to friends…. Needless to say… I’ve got many many gud frends from my last organization… I should be thankful for that too… Such close frends, who really felt bad about me leaving the org… those who’ll truly miss me there… Each of their words are still ringing in my ears… I’ll miss U all, frends…. Though I’ll try to hav as much contacts with you as possible!!!
Glad, glad, glad, to be even able to write a blog like this.. Thanks for everything U gave me guys!!!
