My first salary

1st June 2001, was a most lucky day as it was the first day of my Job at a manufacturing unit near Mysore & with great difficulty I got this job. My main goal was to work hard, as this would decide my fate and careerJ. Days passed by and after a period of 5 months, during Diwali time, I got a call from my manager. “He said Management is happy with your work and would like to pay you Rs 10,000 and now on my monthly pay would be Rs 1500”. Immediately I shouted Hurray.......my first earning and I am capable of earning something for my living. Obviously, the amount is not huge money for this current generation. From this, I learn’t hard work

Hard work brings its own reward...This made me least bothered as to what I was earning. My mentor often said that think about your work, teaching new things helps you in earning a living for life. Once you have the technology, patience, backed by all your hard work, money will come looking for you.
Ha!! I forgot to tell you about my first earning. When I handed over that amount to my parents, tears flowed off their eyes and I could feel the happiness and that hug from my sister saying, Yes man...You can achieve more in your life and this is the first step.

Days passed by and after 6 months I again got good news of salary increment. Hey guys, at this point of time, it’s worth mentioning about my manager, Mr.NVR and my SAP Guru Mr.SS. The interest they showed on me...and also my interest in learning the new technology, made me learn the subject within very less time frame.

My manager taught me, what exactly a hard work is, He taught me communication skills, how to be clear in ones thought, which was one of the factor for me to come up in my life. In the same way, My SAP guru's way of training me on SAP...How to tackle the situation...what things to keep in mind before solving the problem..All these were like bibles to me for my career. Earlier, I had my friend who guided me to escape from thorns to uplift my career. Now I have these 2 people who have added some value in me and I am really thankful to god for giving me a chance to work for these people.

I was in this firm for almost 3.5 years and by the time I left the company, I was earning almost 10K which was really a good amount for me (comparatively very less than compared to what people earn in IT Industry). By this time, I know, I had earned very less in terms of monetary factor, but I was a very rich in terms of experience and technology. I know, it was too hard to leave a company, which had given me shelter for working, best colleagues to work with. But after all in my long journey called "CAREER", I met lot of people and only a few of them will really remember. Not to mention, the good friend circle I had developed within and outside the industry.

One such person I still respect in my life is a girl, 6 yrs younger to me, who was at that time, our company's auditor and the main person behind me to try out my luck in IT industry and then my Journey started towards Bangalore.