Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Time to quit

The time has come to say bye-bye to CTS. I'm completely bored to death in this company. The project I'm in has no value addition to my career. Moreover, after going to London now I will have to work on ulrta crap technologies like Winrunner. I will be a part of regression testing. My great development skills wasted end to end :-).

The way I'm planning for it is like this. 8th Jan I am back to London. Before that I'm gonna prepare myself for a rock solid technical Java interview. As soon as I land in UK I'm gonna frantically search for a job.

In UK, when you are on a work permit, switching jobs is not as easy as its in the US. You need to find a company which is desperate enough to take you in and sponsor your work permit transfer. Finding such companies is difficult. However , I'm gonna try really hard this time. Hope it will work out.

Now, If this dosen't work out I'm NOT going to stick around. I'm coming back and switching the companies here in India itself. Fuck UK. I don't care a shit about the money there.

One thing which I have realised is, I can't see myself as a Senoir Associate or a APM or a Manager in this company. I constantly have this incling that I'm built for starting up on my own. Now, how I'm going to do that I know not, but till the time I can figure that out I can at least work in better company, meet different people, if not anything at least enjoy life.

So the winds of change have arrived and I'm flowing with them. This is the first time I've felt completely confident about quitting and I might as well do that.

The sad part.

I will have to format a parting mail when I resign and I'm really bad at writing senti stuff.

Friday, December 02, 2005

Meetro

Today I checked out this fantastic service called www.meetro.com.

The idea is to get people are in physical vicinity of each other to meet over IM. All major IM's are supported.

Imagine what this can do?

I wanna go home at 7 pm but the company bus is at 7-30pm. If entire IT park in Pune is on Meetro, I can search for all the Meetro'ers who are in 1/4 Km away from me. I can just post them that "I need a lift". This would save such a hell of my time.

There could be millions of other possibilities like my Mom instructing the Kiranawala to fetch milk over the internet !