Hey readers and bloggers, its good to be back among u all and i must tell u that this time I am here to stay. So rejoice and enjoy my posts. Now I am damn sure about the one question that must be flickering in your minds .. "where was I all dis time?". Let me xplain.
I will be frank in my approach. I was in a bit of bother over the not so charming and not so good placements scene in my college. Being a mechanical engineer, I had wished for a good and a stable offer with a good amount of pay package involved. But the economic slump and the recession period from the late 2008s till date daunted my dream. My seniors who were placed reasonably in good companies suffered due to this deadly period. Some of them got regret letters while some were asked to join one year after what it was to be in normal circumstances. I was shuddering under this extreme phase of irremediable times. It was not long when the companies would start visiting for recruiting our batch of students.
And then the unanticipated happened. Our Training and placement division head gave us this shocking news. The placements for our batch had been postponed to the end of the year. We were feeling the heat of the dark times that stood just ahead of us. We could see the barbaric image of the future happenings.
It was sometimes around the 15th of June this year when I was at my home, relaxing on a couch watching some damn thing on my TV that I dont remember. The phone rang. It was my friend Ashish. And I could not believe what he next said to me. "Hey Ankur, Placements 20 July se start ho rahe hai". Those were the exact words uttered by him. I was taken aback. The next thing that I did was opening up the TnP portal on my college's website to check for any updates. There were none. I became restless, the same words echoing in my mind again and again. I had to be sure about the authenticity of the news my friend just told me. Next thing I did was mailing my TnP head Mr. Pant to confirm what I just heard.
Rest is history. You know why? Because I have been placed in IOCL, the highest paying Indian PSU and that too on the first day of the placement season. 18th of July,2009 , the day of my life. I did prepare somewhat for the placements after Mr. Pant confirmed the speculation, but I never thought that my dream will come true this way.
I will sign off by quoting...
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
-Winston Churchill
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