Flashback: New beginning and an old end

27th June 2005 saw the demise of a college student in me. From its ashes a professional was resurrected. Looking back, it sounds comical to call myself that. I didnt know shit about being a professional! I was an avg college going fun loving , movie watching metro boy who was holidaying in the beautiful cold mountains of mount Abu when the call came.

I still remember the day... 18th June, i was taking pictures of my cousings when my cellphone gave a buzz. Dad had called who told me that someone from MBT had called and wanted me to join on 24th!! My heart raced!! The change was inevitable! However, there was a catch which made me feel that the job which i had secured beforehand was slipping away. I was due to return to Mumbai on 26th! From my cell, i immediately gave a call to the MBT number! The MBT HR phone rang and a very nice gentleman picked up. I explained the situation i found myself in to him...the guy must have smiled and then he told me that i can join on 27th

Taking you back a bit to collage final year B.E final Semester, i dont remember then the last time i wrote formal clothes...might be during the disastrious project presentation i had to forcefully give! Never really liked complusion, i was always a rebel when it came to someone enforcing his/her authority on me..however, looking back i think college attitude was more or less an enigma which corrupted the very mind that was forced to do a particular thing in a particular way. You can ask my HOD with whom i shared lets just say a very warm (not very heated) student teacher relationship....i think she still hates me!

Anyways, cutting back to my return journey from Mount Abu to Mumbai, it was night, cold misty night with darkness engulfing the train like a fat guy eating a couple of burgers at the same time...Fear clouded my thoughts and provided that chilling spike in ur spine...Will i be able to adapt? Will i still be a rebel? Will i be accepted? A lot of questions but no answers! Very frustrating situation which leads to insomnia for one night only!

Once i touched down in Mumbai, i had an agenda, buying a lot of formal clothes...dropping my bags at home, getting bit refreshed, he headed out to the nearest clothing shop to buy myself some decent lookiung clothes...This was the most expensivest shopping i had done in a long time...Anyways, came home, decided on the clothes which i would wear the next morning, had a quiet dinner and then went to my one night stand...another round of insomnia...

27th June 2005, 8:57 Am, a hefty built guy entered the main reception doors of MBT, headed up to the reception and asked for the HR person i spoke to earlier... Was advised to sit on the couch!. As i watched, people walking in with a purpose, with haste, some with fear...terror and a chill covered my senses which was very rudely broken by someone who shouted, "You can goto the 5th Floor new wing"....I took a temporary card and left for the elevator, There i was a college rebel in company of the finest employees of the company..this time fear showed its ugly face on me!

My life as i knew it was changed forever! The college going, care free attitude was no longer required in my personality... now more than fear a sense of anticipation filled my expression, as i opened a training room door, i saw similar expression on the faces of 60 odd other individuals who like me had stepped out of the shadows of college life into the sun of office world....End of one phase and the beginning of the other...The induction started.....