Wednesday, 9 March 2011

CrossRoads


At Crossroads - > choose your ‘ROAD’ -> your destination
I think this more or less summarizes anybody’s career and life …
Starting at the age of 15 years, Each individual will get to a cross road for every 2-3 years in their life and the decisions they take at these points determines the course of their life both career and personal as well!
How good it is to have a mentor who knows our strengths, what’s in store for each of the option and guide us to take the best decisions to have a fulfilled life. A dream like scenario isn’t it?
I was just contemplating some of the major decisions in my life and the above thought struck me..
After my SSC, I have taken the M.P.C.(Maths, Physics and Chemistry) route which put me into engineering  and during my engineering days, I choose not to write Gate and not to go to US for MS.. but tried for CAT , an MBA seat in top 10 colleges of India.. these decisions and my efforts put me into a software job..
 is it my preferred option 1? No . But why am I here?
I could not decide on the preferred option in time and hence could not work on that ..so I had to take the option Iam left with..
In one-way,   I am  very lucky that the option which is the dream of many is not  a preferred option for me but I could make it good in this field.. On the other hand because of my other preferences, I am not at my best here and always have that feeling of missing the thing I wanted badly..
What I want.. I want to be running a successful business spread across geographies and creating huge employment and lot of wealth for me and others involved.
So why am I nt doing the thing I want and continuing with a different career ..
1)      Not  taking a firm decision at correct time
2)      Not planning and hence not taking actions required
Why have I not done the above? Many factors including lack of awareness and distractions with temporary opportunities.
If somebody guided me correctly, what I would have done.
Somebody made me sit and discuss
what are the options I have,
what are my strengths,
what are my desires and took me through each of the options  , what I need to do , what I will get and most importantly what kind of life I will be leading by choosing each of the options, I think definitely I will be in a different track  .
Iam pretty sure, most of us will be having the same thought… how good it is if we have a place  where we can go whenever we are in a dilemma whenever we are at crossroads and get help from people who know better , who can guide us .. to be continued