My 2nd Job Anniversary!!!

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3^rd August, 2015 was the first day of my professional life. I still remember the swollen face with which I attended my first day. As the last 7 months of college was all about being at home and creating an internship project, the sleeping and waking time screwed the whole body cycle which made it one of a hell task to wake up early in the morning on the first day of office. The nervousness made my face look even more non-committal. As soon as I entered the office, I was introduced to the project on which I had to work as a Software Tester. I, who always saw small projects in life, was stunned to see a project of that dimension where the linkages and flow was not ending only. It took me almost 2 days to understand just the basic flow of it. I had signed a bond of 2 Years which scared me like anything imagining myself working on such vast projects and handling it myself in case when the seniors would leave the organization. But all went well and I got confirmed after 6 months of Probation period.

And that changed the whole thing for me. I became confident and made sure that I would never say NO to anything that will come towards me in this organization for any tenure that I would be staying here. And I did exactly that. Today, I have completed 2 years of my professional life and looking back and at my present, I can say that whatever your organization is, however kind of Organizational Politics that takes place in your company, whatever kind of people you have around you as peers, you can achieve what you set as your goal and no one else can hide or overshadow your skills and talents if you are really a step ahead than what you were yesterday.

In the last two years, I have worked in my organization as Software Tester, also helped my MD with SEO for two months on a very small level, and then worked as an Application Support for 3 months due to some internal issues and finally now, I am working as a Business Analyst. This journey from being just a Software Tester to being a Business Analyst in an IT company in the last 2 years has taught me that one can move in any profile if one believes that he/she can. A little extra efforts than others in your department can showcase your capabilities to your peer and even to the management. Just after becoming an Analyst, I got an opportunity to attend client meeting on the 2^nd day itself with my seniors which made me believe that when you desire to experience and learn something new, automatically the law of attraction works and you get to live the kind of Corporate Life you always wanted to. I am enough lucky, that’s the only thing I can say.

I recently got the first appraisal of my life and it was among the highest slot of the organization. Along with that, I got the promotion as mentioned above. What more can one expect in just the 2^nd year of his career? I am overwhelmed with whatever is happening with me and my sole goal remains to grow personally irrespective of whatever my organization believes me to do. It is not always that our goal is same as organization but the thought process should be the same- in whatever you do, your package should justify your efforts. And if you do more than that, nothing can stop you from growing even if your goal does not align with that of organizations’. Actually, it must!

In the last 730 days of my tenure, I have taken only 14 days leave and not one of them is unplanned. I always made it sure that the team I am working with should be assured that no matter what; Abhilash is coming to the office on time, even if no one is turning out. This has helped in creating a strong bond with my team and this trust value that you imbibe gives a lot in return. I owe a lot of my professional successes to my organization that always believed in me and gave me roles and responsibilities that were a level up than my current position. When I was QA, they asked me to perform SEO and BA tasks. When I switched to BA profile, they asked me to do App. Support’s task. And now when I am officially moved to BA profile, I am given a new project altogether. And whatever failures I have faced and I would be facing, I owe that to my lack of commitment or capabilities. That’s all I have to say on completing 2 years of my professional life. Thanks to everyone who supported me in this tenure. Just stay by, all I can ask today.

Thanks.

ABHILASH RUHELA!!! 

The Art Of Mentoring by Ravishankar Gundlapalli (Book Review-3.75*/5) !!!

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Reading non-fiction book after reading fiction stories regularly makes you reach a different level of thinking and thought process itself. I have just finished reading the non-fictional attempt named “The Art Of Mentoring” written by the debutante, Ravishankar Gundlapalli. Generally, whenever we discuss about the self-help section of non-fiction books, there are always almost the same topics on which the author discusses throughout the book- how to be happy, how to be socially active, how to avoid stress etc. This book is totally different from all the self-help books I have read recently. It talks about how we can be a good mentor to people who are in quest to learn and also discusses about what are our responsibilities as a mentee.

The book begins with a long explanation by the author about why he wrote this book and how it would be helpful for the readers. This has taken a long time which makes sense as author wanted the reader to know the goal before starting to read this book. After that, author discusses about the myths of mentoring that people generally believe and sidelines it thinking that it’s not so important to spend his/her time in mentoring someone. And after this the real stuff begins where the author discusses about the points that a mentor should follow to be a good person to give guidance to people who are in actual need and can bring difference to the society. After discussing about the mentor, author focuses on the responsibilities of a mentee who needs a mentor to learn new things desperately and reach to another level of performance altogether.

The book is nicely written with diagrammatic representation in middle of the chapters which makes the experience of reading this book interesting. This book can be completed within one sitting of 1 to 1.5 hours itself. The points discussed are nicely briefed and described which makes it easy for the reader to remember and implement them later on. As Mentoring is not discussed much as a topic either in college books, this attempt is surely distinct and something which is essential as at any point of time in life, there are people who are looking forward to us for guidance while even we are looking out for someone who can lead us towards our goal and dreams. I give this book 3.75* out of 5. It is surely recommended for the people who want to be leaders and the people who are looking out for someone to lead them. Go for this book.

Thanks.

ABHILASH RUHELA!!! 

8th Anniversary of Blogging!!!

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On 31^st July, 2009, just exploring something on Orkut.com, I landed up on another service provided by Google and ended up writing my first ever Blog Post just out of curiosity to understand this new medium. Not even once did I have a clue that this journey would become such an integral part of my life and in some phases, my life itself. Now, it has become one of the attached parts of my life which can never be parted away from me. Though I would come here just for once in a year but this will always stay a part of my life where I will surely drop to unload all my burdens.

There have been times in my life when I do not blog for a long period of time due to some circumstances where I have to devote myself a lot or in some stressful period where I have nothing positive to share. I feel even more weak during such periods because of the disconnect with the writing part of my soul and the stagnancy of my blog posts makes me feel more depressed and sick. It is only when I return back to blogging do I feel energized, ecstatic, inspired and motivated. Just like recently when I was not blogging at all but the last month of July has been really special for me since I started blogging again like my previously-known routine where I slept only for 3-4 hours to make sure that I do not sleep without talking about what I have in my mind.

This Blog has been reason for many achievements and special privileges that has been granted to me in life. I never discuss my blogging with anyone by myself but there comes a time when a person knowing me drops on my blogging site and discusses this with me in detail. After that conversation, I find that person little more closer to me as after reading few of my posts the person starts feeling that he knows me far more better than anyone else around. I have gotten many good friends due to this. I have gotten many privileges in my college life because the faculties and classmates knew about my Blogging activities. Similarly, in my professional life too, this has been of a great advantage and got me change my department itself.

What more can a Blogger or Writer-by-heart ask? I am not a grammar nazi or someone who speaks world-class English but my thoughts and opinions are something that people connect with because of which this blog has been able to hold few readers since last 8 years. Never did I realize that I would continue blogging for 8 years with an average of 200 blog posts each year. Unbelievable! I have shared many personal events, thoughts, opinions, creative pieces, photographs etc. on this medium which has made this a very personal part of my life. Anyone who is a regular here will always find me closer to him/her and same goes from my side too. Whenever a reader of my work mails, messages or comments me, I feel as if I have met a long-lost friend whom I had been searching for a long period of time who knows about all my secrets and has a direct way to my heart.

I would like to thank each and every person who have ever tried to contribute to this medium through their help in making it popular and well-known. I have never invested to make this medium popular but whatever it has achieved till today is only because of all of you who have shared the articles with your friends on Whatsapp, Twitter and Facebook and made them know my blog and me. The 9^th year of Blogging journey begin from today and I promise myself that whenever I will feel that life is trying to unfriend me, I will drop here to speak my mind and emote everything I have in my heart rather than getting isolated and more detached from my writing space. A very happy 8^th Blogiversary to my Blog and all the readers attached with it.

Thanks.

ABHILASH RUHELA!!!