Saturday, November 18, 2006

Career Focus takes a New Meaning...

I am sitting a Starbucks coffee joint close to my place....I have simply fallen in love with this place...Its a beautiful setting... People sitting and having coffee....Christmas carols playing (it is close to Thanksgiving)...Starbucks has given a new meaning to drinking coffee....Just see a young couple walking in-the guy has a crutch , seems to be hurt..the girl(a face worth remembering!!!!!) is helping him walk...the sight brings a smile to my face....a mother with her kids(joyfully playing around), wish I could snap a picture of her playing...A lawyer-client discussing something(the client seems very disturbed - the lawyer looks so caring - reminds me of some hollywood flick ...what was the name...huh...forget it..)

The staff here is all so young..hear that almost all are college students who have to work in order to support themselves and their studies...Wouldn't have to think of such a thing in India....I began working at the age of 22..no worries before that..all things paid for..everything taken care of...Ah..how lucky we all have been!!!!!!

.....The biggest question bugging me right now is "Where do I see myself 5 years down the line?" This is something I have been thinking for sometime now..The undeniable fact(whether we want to hear it or not) is that we are getting older....I have been one of the luckier guys....have received the best education in India...Terrific Schooling followed by a Bachelors degree fron REC(NIT). Academics have been good...the job has been a great learning experience...but the question is "Where do I go from here?"......Recently visited Yale, MIT, Harvard, Columbia and UCONN...to get an answer....The next logical thing for me would be an MBA, no doubt but it requires a BIG investment/committment both in terms of material and time...However, as usual I am again getting ahead of myself...

Anyways, have decided to take things one at a time...First step would be to get a good score on the GMAT...I guess there is no point in thinking light years ahead.A strong GMAT score would make things a lot clearer..Planning would be so much easier..

On a different note, have got a new JVC everio camcorder
http://www.jvc.com/presentations/everio_g
and am pretty excited about it...Should be posting some new photographs pretty soon...

Also check out the new Canadian Band - Niclekback
http://www.nickelback.com/
..simply love their numbers...