Job Job Everywhere, not a job to pick...

Well, the placement season has started in college. By the way, this blog has nothing do with Sp-Ent, but it is just to tell you the fact that, in the last few weeks I have not had the time to do any of my favorite activities - like sports and entertainment.

The first day started with close to 900 guys writing TCS in our college. It was a pretty hectic day for all us PC's (not Power Corrupts). At the end of the day, I was really tired. Such an instance had never happened in my life before - I well asleep watching cricket. The way Wasim Jaffer and India batted on the 2nd day would have put anyone to sleep. But, I have the highest regard for test cricket and can watch an entire day of test cricket without company as well - I did that once, in Chinnaswamy stadium - India vs Australia, 2004.

Well leaving cricket aside, I did the test pretty well. There were people who were mugging the previous papers and could not help laugh at that. I could not stop laughing when the paper given to us was infact very similar to last years paper. Come on TCS, you could do better. Anyways got through the written test and was called for Interview. The interview happened the next day and was another tiring day for the PC's. Adi and me handled the mike (Pop Singer). Then it was my turn. It turned out to be the worst interview anybody applying for a job can give. Pathetic would be an under statement. Finally after all sorts of games to keep ourselves occupied, came my rejection. It was a strange feeling. Was dejected myself, but the despair turned into glee when I saw how happy people in my class were. They got placed and I would love to think that I did have a very minute hand in it..

After the disappointment of TCS, came the opposite of disappointment in IBM. The guys had changed their pattern and a lot of people seemed stunned. I somehow liked the new pattern, and did pretty well. I had to write an essay on the topic - "Cricket overshadows other sports in India". The number of people short-listed was really a downer. Only 61. The interview did not seem to be a grilling session as I had predicted, but turned out to be a very meaningful conversation between 2 senior personnel at IBM and some prospective employee. After the interviews, the results were announced, and yours truly was selected. It was even more memorable as Srijith also got in.

Another day passed as the PC and Infosys took 6 people from my class. I am counting the days till everyone in my class gets a job.

Perks of PC include - 1. Bitti Oota
2. Meeting HR's
3. People calling you Sir

Qualities of a good PC - 1. Must be able to shout 200 names at the top of his voice.
2. Should be able to serve hot Akki-Rotis and explain some North Indian company representatives what it is.
3. Be good at MS Excel
4. Run around
5. Lift benches, which seem to be 20kg's heavy.

I think, I possess some of the above mentioned qualities. Anyway, getting really sleepy.
I would like to end this blog by corrupting an immortal line uttered by the great Dr. Raj Kumar, in an immortal movie "Operation Diamond Racket" --

"Baby, I am getting sleep" - Dr. Raj Kumar..