Strange encounters
There have been instances where in I have met some of my
friends very rarely and these meetings have had lasting impacts. I have known
Shankarnarayan right from my primary school days and he was my senior there.
Also we used to stay 2 blocks away [Jayanagar 1st block] and often
used to meet after school for cricket or just to roam around the streets.
Gradually I lost contact with him, and met only once in a while. After we moved
to BSK 2nd stage, I totally lost contact with him
My degree subject had been a combination of Hardware and
Software. So there were great deliberations in the house on whether should I stick
to Hardware or Software line. Both had its own pros and cons. Finally I started
off with joining a Computer hardware servicing company. I started to gain
experience in servicing and repairing computers, and slowly started to enjoy
the work. In the meanwhile, my father had taken up a fabrication work at a
house in Rajajinagar. The owner of the house had just started a S/w company [Tantra
Solutions] and my father had spoken to him about me. I went along with my
father to meet the owner [Mahesh P] and learn about the company
During those days [1999 - 2000] Infosys, Wipro, TCS were the
main S/w companies, and everybody wanted to be part of these organizations. The
salaries that were paid were huge [at least 10000/PM] and every parent wanted
their children to settle down in one of these companies
It was a good meeting with Mahesh. The discussion went on
for about 30 mins. Mahesh had been an expert at Database technologies and I was
a novice. I only know dBase3 and did not know anything related to core DB
concepts. But I had known C very well and had expressed my desire to work on
this technology [and had frankly told that I don’t like to work on DB]
I was again called to meet other directors of the company. This
is when I saw the physical location of the office. It was neat Majestic and in
Cottonpet area. I met with Arvind, Kumar, Mahesh P and Mahesh N. There was one
other director [Jayesh] whom I met at a later date
Having heard about big IT companies, doubts started to creep
in my mind about Tantra. This was more to do with physical infrastructure
rather than anything else. I bought some time for deliberation and continued
working for the Computer service company. I was not convinced that I would want
to join Tantra and decided to pursue career in Computer H/w field
I was returning home one day after office, and met
Shankarnarayan accidentally near my house [I was meeting him after 10 years or
so]. It had been a very pleasant surprise and spoke at length on how life is
treating both of us. He had joined for a S/w course and was considering joining
S/w companies [even though his father had an established business]. I had not
told him about the interview at Tantra. During the course of the conversation,
he mentioned that he would be willing to join any S/w company even though it
did not have good infrastructure. This was mainly to do with gaining experience.
He also advised me to do so if there is an opportunity. Probably he was able to
foresee the future of S/w industry better
If it had not been for the rendezvous with Shankarnarayan, I
might not have joined Tantra and not entered S/w at all. The wonderful journey I’m
having in this sector started on Jan 24th 2000 from an office near Cotton
pet main road. I have not met Shankarnarayan since then and not sure when the destiny
would arrange further encounters
posted by Vikram Attiganal @ 1:10 AM
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