oie.. what's happening

A long long time ago in school, i dreamt of becoming a fashion designer. If I closed my eyes I could hear the applause people gave after leggy models had paraded my clothes in a high profile fashion week. Then the fateful day came, when I had to choose amongst art, science and commerce. Any guesses?? Yup, the winner was science with PCMB (for the ignorant; its physics, chemistry, biology and math)

Later there was the logical choice between engineering and medicine (parents frowned upon fashion designing “hippy career, what-will-it-get-you, no respect”) and engineering won hands down. Not because I had any inclination towards it but cogs in my brain were calculating the time in years to get a degree. So it was 4 of engineering versus approx 10 of medicine.

Ah! Finally done with engineering now I can say goodbye to books forever, possibly burn them? Nah selling would be better. But alas, the best laid plans of mice and women (:D)…

Study more.. study more.. Bachelor’s degree isn’t enough.. what the hell.. well, one fine day it was the CAT paper. Wrote it without a clue; and later bit my nails all the way till the results came, waiting for the assault at home when they found out that I flunked.. parents have these weird expectations from their children.. I AM NOT A GENIOUS… in fact I’d like to be less than average.. just spare me the books..

But I wasn’t that lucky, the results came out and I was amongst the top 5% people who wrote that dumb test and hence had to go through the entire grind of GDs and PIs and what not… and ended up with a PGDBA course.

All is not lost, so I thought.. I can still enter marketing and enter the world of new products and brands and media and colour. So the choice remained marketing, till the time I had my summer training. I was amongst the lucky few who had to meet corporate clients, but after running around the length and breadth of Mumbai, and reaching home everyday resembling a wet dog, I changed my mind.

Hoo baby, I have to do finance… nothing to it, just a few numbers and sitting in an AC office all day. Wow!! That’ll be life. So, yours truly graduated with a degree in finance AAAAAAND (mind you) marketing.

I was picked up in the campus by a well known IT company, and here I am folks, doing something which is indefinable, it’s neither engineering, nor marketing, nor finance. I make newsletters, edit documents, design websites, compile excel sheets.

It’s just something to while away my time and get a salary every month. It’s a relaxed life, but I wouldn’t know about job satisfaction…

All I can say is.. oie!! This is what I wasted so much education on????????