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

Employment or Entrepreneurship!!

A thought ,a disucssion that occupies major part of my thinking almost always...

what to choose? choosing for what?

it should be done by interest? or by analysing which path can give more benefits to you monetarily, emotionally etc..

if it is by interest,do you have the capability of working on your interest and turn it into a income generating venture, build a team who can work on your goal and keep it going... yeah all successful business people are successful team builders...

as Kishore Biyani mentions in It Happened in India... life offers you certain amount of time and it all depends on how you pass that time...

employment or entrepreneurship is a very important choice anyne can make in their life..cause it determines their financial as well as personal life standards and well being..

in my personal opinion, the corporate employment helps very little in enhancing ones family/personal life and it is evident with the number of divorce cases ..

entrepreneurship on the other hand helps you to develop a community which is yours for any occassion or urgency ..thus helps is having high elevls of emotional support..

also considering the monetary benefits associated with the entrepreneurship , it beats employment hands down any day..

only one question we should ask is ..where ever we are employed, what is the firm owner doing? employment or entrepreneurship?

Road ahead

yesterday I was speakig to one of my seniors about the prospects of career growth...
may be its my age...these days iam thinking more about the future:) ..... he said since the IT industry is reaching the saturation (it will grow but growth rates are snailpaced) we can not expect any great rewards/career growth....
hmmm... so waht are the options for a typical s/w engineer to secure his financial future..career and good life style?

I think that by investing in companies with good track record (opto circuits,tata chemicals etc) which pay good dividends can help us...

to improve our chances of growth..we need to bring lot of new skills on to the table and show that we can make a difference to not only the project we ae working but to the technology group..to the business unit and more than that...

now I know the reasons for why i should ...what i should do ..how to do it is the next step and I need to fix the plan for the HOW during the coming two weeks...

do post your ideas