LIFE & SENSEX

Hi all,

it has been one and half year..out of blogging.
I really missed this stuff man..
feels so good to write something...u know.
there has been lot of UPS & downs in these 15 months.life has been like SENSEX.
pure volatility...nothing else.
I still remember those days....
7th Jan ....sensex touches 21000. we all are placed with 6+ package deal and one of the best profiles ..equity research.

4th july.sensex finds some correction to 19000...my dream came true....joined Adventity.
Ppl said its full-form is (or was?) Adventurous Entity...
and thanks to Lehman Bros. it fully lived up to its name.
Stared as a smalltime 5-10 ppl company in 2003..became 2000+ in just five years!!
and it had all what comes with a big company....BIG OVERHEADS!!!
Now the company STRATEGY was to focus on one sector and few customers (bullshit)
With all top Investment banks as clients, we were growing at 200%...

16th september..sensex goes to 14000..then came the famous American NINJA (No Income No Job Assesses) and all investment banks became mercantile banks( that day I understood the difference!..Thanks Prof. Trivedi) With no income to support and BIG OVERHEADS..there is only one way to sustain...NEW STRATEGY..

LAST IN.....FIRST OUT

and then came the D - DAY!

31st September..sensex reached 10000..I was working on an assignment ( even 4th grade student could have done it) and then I get a call from Gala...dude just come down..there is a meeting. I was still wondering what the hell is going on? we never had any meeting in past 3 months!
and then came the GUY! With shrinking income levels, CEO of company came from US to Mumbai in BUSINESS CLASS flight to meet us personally (how fortunate we were...and how much they really care for us..Thank GOD!) and starts telling us how he tried to save our jobs ..and how helpless he was.
I WAS THINKING why the hell he didnt quit? cant he take a 50% paycut? cant we all take paycut and still be there?
I cant describe the feeling of getting fired from my first job.
Now looking back, I feel so lost...when I heard those words..My mind stopped working for few seconds..everything went blank..it was feeling like we were the most useless ppl with no talent..how can u fire me man? atleast give me a chance to prove my worth!
Thats when I understood..ITS A DOG EAT DOG WORLD OUT THERE!
The CEO fired us to save his JOB!
I was thanking my luck that I was not married and there was no loan on my head!
God help those who got fired from their jobs in those days. Those were really really sad and bad days...
The moment I came out of company ..i just called Yogesh and told him I was fired! It felt so embarrassing! and GOD knows what happened to my parent when I told them this news.

1st october..sensex goes down to 8000..i started a typical 'give me a job" kinnda mail campaign..I sent about 500 mails to friends, consultants,HR sites...
Wrote three types of resumes...had a daily chat with many consultants.."who were asking me to not to quit my job" and "stick around for some time".
It was really a scene at my apartment!
One guy (myself) was out of Job!
second guy (yoesh) was with a bankrupt lehman Bros
& the third (pavan) was going for a 3 month foreign assignment to Italy !!

and then we saw bottom of markets..sensex and life too...life @ 6000 of sensex.
and then life had seen all bad things...markets were bottomed out....
I got my call from Godrej...all thanks to Piyush bhatoria and Janki...I started a new chapter in my life...Life @ Godrej.... Life @ Project Disruptive Innovation!!!

will talk about this next time... c u soon...