Was just recollecting moments when I have reached very close to my target and then didn’t quite made it. Things I have worked hard for…meant a lot to me that time… and now what I feel about them
Getting into SRCC
Would have looked good on my CV….but KMC is something that made me…the initial adverse situations…hostel…ragging…politics…I don’t think I should have missed that learning….and man I relish every moment I spent there….and I have enough big names on my CV now …
Getting into IIM A
Well IIM I was the best thing that happened to me…I think I was very lucky to get into IIM I. And man I tasted my first 100% success there…I mag…I managed to do it as I have dreamt it….will exchange nothing for that one moment…Thanks God for I and not A. And few might agree the kind of people I made friends with at I, I am sure were not there even at A. Just watch out for our batch…It will make IIM I proud.
Getting into Jamnagar refinery
Well this is the funniest of all. I was told that my mother had wished that if my father clears his CA exam they would visit Tirupati mandir. So I also promised myself before my CA exam – If I get through I will go to Jamnagar refinery of Reliance (“modern temple of India”)
I stuck to my promise when I got through….within a week of clearing the CA exams I was off to Jamnagar…around 3000 kms from my place. Only to be turned away from the gates…still dream of getting inside…it still inspires me….its about to become even grander will planned doubling of capacity…will visit the temple soon…very soon…
Publishing my article in Business World
Man I had never been so close to my dream like that moment…I was almost there…I believed that one article of mine can open all doors for me in future…I would be able to prove my potential…I has a feeling that I have arrived….and then it came crashing down…the call from Reliance to my boss at BW…the project shelved…I admit I wept that day…I had worked very hard for that and had put my career at risk for that…I almost made it …but not quite…
But it gave me the fire – the drive to dream of I mag. And as they say failure is the stepping-stone to success…The I mag, which I am very proud of today, is the result of my BW failure …God give me such failures again and again!! During my SP Jain interview I defined success as “opportunity to dream bigger than the previous day”. At BW I was fighting to get one article published…and that failure made me conceptualize a mag…was that a failure??
Job at Reliance
This has been real hard nut to crack. After CA results, I made atleast 50 applications for job at Reliance. Visited atleast 12 Reliance offices in different cities and didn’t even managed to get an interview call from them. Went to the extent off getting into Reliance’s ‘walk-in interview’ meant for engineers, disguising myself as engineer…still didn’t managed a interview call. I think time has come to apply again…….Reliance here I come.
Moral of the story – “Aim for the Sun – You will reach the stars atleast” (in geography classes I have been told Stars are further away from Sun…unlike what was believed by people who wrote this phrase)
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Most of you who have read my blog know my two obsessions - Reliance & I magazine. I Mag is something I consider to be my biggest achievement till date and am very proud of it. The obsession to start off the magazine was the result of my admiration for the Reliance group and intention to prove my capabilities to Reliance group - my message to them that 'You need to have me in your team'
