A career I would like to explore. If someone had asked me this question when I was just out of college and trying to make a decent living, my answer would have been the same as what I actually did at that time. I was lucky that I did not have to make any special efforts in finding my first and my choice of job. But I had two or maybe three good company's offers from which I could choose. And that's what I did. I joined in sales department and in the first six months I was at the forefront of my team in terms of orders and closures. Even far ahead of those who were from me a year or two before. And maybe that's why I got promoted within first six months.
Photo credit: Yu. Samoilov on VisualHunt.comBut after one year, I felt that this sales and marketing is not for me. And, anyway, my interest in technology had increased exponentially by then. That's why I left that job and took admission in a full time course for six months. This was the first high level course in mainframes technology in our country. I think because I had a passion and had determination, I got admission after clearing entrance and interview. All that I had earned in a year in the first job was spent in this course. But I was very happy. Maybe, this was my destination. And this decision proved to be absolutely right. In those six months I studied mainframes very closely and learned a lot. And what I learned was very useful in starting a solid career and earning my living quite handsomely.
At the same time, I continued to get regular promotions and consistent career growth in terms of learning newer technologies, challenging projects, and successful completions. I started with the job of a programmer at a national transporter. Six months later, I joined a reputed Wealth Tax Consultant as a team lead of around a dozen of programmers. After that, I joined at the airport where I got to work on the mainframes, that I was missing after my course. A year later, I joined an automobile company as Head of Technology. And after that, I got immersed in technology as if it were made for it and it was made for me. It probably couldn't have been better than what happened.
I think a right decision at the beginning of the career matters a lot. May be, if I had stuck to sales as a career, I might have earned a few bucks more but the amount of satisfaction I got in my career in Technology was phenomenally more. That justified my decision of doing away with career in sales and taking the challenge of jumping into the unknown territories of technology and adopting that as a career.
