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BY Sidharth DasThu Jul 24, 2008
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

Am a MCA student, in june 2008 i cleared my last sem. Am a workaholic and I hate sitting idle. till last month of my 3 year course i was busy in my internship, before that in a part time job in a BPO firm, which i had took up just for the sake of testing my skills and so many other things(of course classes) which may or may not be of much significance to my career or personal life. Well as life had plans for me to join a MNC as an IT professional, i had simply ceased nurturing my thoughts and dreams, which I had while growing up, thinking that, may be this is what I wanted to do, and considering the reward at month end stopped me from thinking otherwise.but thanks to the situation IT industry is going thru these days, IT firms have delayed the joining dates of recruits, and now am proud to say that am part of this so called "victims" of IT slowdown.

If I compromise with the salary and flexibility of work(may be which I should do as a fresher),  am confident enough that I can bag a job any day. But the problem is after enjoying the longest vaccation(of 20 days in last 3 years), am quite relaxed and have become successful in breaking out of that monotonous thinking pattern of a so called"job seeker". Of course I need to earn money to live and enjoy my life, and unfortunately am not a spiritual person or a person who's satisfied that easily. In a  way am a perfectionist , when it comes to my work, cause a project taken up by me gets over when am satisfied with the result, where as most of the time i exceed beyond the expectation of the person am doing it for, but I just won't feel good, if I stop there, knowing that I can improve it further. This habbit of mine takes it's toll on my health and lifestyle(latenights, bloodshot eyes, cut off from friends, so on..), but thats ok, cause at the end of the day,after delivering the work, when I lie down on my bed, I should get a pat on my back from myself, cause only i would know that it was worth it, and the smile that i'll have on my face afterwards is what matters...am sure you would agree on this.

So....the main "thing" which made me to take my time out of playing games or reading mags or riding my bike and writing this blog is,my dream of starting my own company. You might think it's too early, am too young, am not rich enough, not experienced enough to fulfil this dream(even I thought so for a while..), quite surprisingly thats not my concern anymore! All am thinking right now is-

                 [                   "how should I start working towards it?"                   ]

Well am leading my usual life, if I continue doing nothing(as people say-"Go with the flow."), I'll indeed lead a visually perfect life as I wrote in the first paragraph of this blog. But sometimes when I think about the very last day of my life, that I'll be sittin on a rocking chair(may be bed ridden) and thinking about my works and accomplishments,I should have "that" smile on my face, cause I just didn't let go of my dreams, I fulfilled them in my lifetime...I went that extra mile....

Now dear reader I want to put forth this question of mine, and I know there are people in this community who can guide me better, even by simply answering my question here. So I request all members, who think they have got somethin to say, which would help me in any way to push the envelop, even by an inch, PLEASE DO REPLY !!!

Thanks

Sidharth