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My Trials and Tribulations of finding my first job
By Navaneetha Krishnan Vaidyanathan
Rewind 20 years back. Whoa! At last, I completed my college degree in Chemistry in my good old town. After this, I started to migrate to a metropolitan city called Mumbai, India to find a better paying job with lots of dreams and hopes. Fast moving cars, flashlights, big concrete structures and lot of crowd welcomed me when I entered Mumbai.
It is more than 1000 miles away from my town. I had a cousin in Mumbai, he was working in an international bank at that time, and his wife was working in a nationalized bank. He helped me in locating job opportunities in local newspaper. I started applying for jobs and got few interviews as well. I attended those interviews.
I attended an interview call and went to that company. It was textile-testing laboratory. The manager gave me a piece of cloth and asked me to find the area of the cloth. I measured the length and breadth of that cloth, multiplied them, and showed him the answer. He looked for a while then he dipped the cloth in cold water and asked me to measure again. I did the same. It was less than it was before wetting. He then asked me to measure the percentage of shrinkage. I once again calculated percentage shrinkage of the cloth and showed him. He convinced with my answer and offered me a job as trainee chemist of textile testing. Hurrah! I got a job finally. However, unfortunately I worked there only for 15 days. Because I got another better job for which I attended an interview long time back with one of the top companies in India. Here I started working as Pollution Control Chemist. This lasted for three years. Then, I came back to my hometown because my mother citing her poor health asked me to comeback and work in my town. She was not interested in coming to Mumbai. However, I was not interested in the beginning but finally I heeded my mother’s call. I joined a company that was dealing with industrial chemicals and solvents as resident representative. I worked there for five years. Meanwhile, I worked in a textile chemcals manufacturer for few days and worked in a paper and paper board manufacturing unit for another few days.Then I had a call from a MNC that is the world’s No.1 manufacturer of products in graphic art industry. Until now for the past 11 years, I am working in this company as sales executive. God only knows how long I am going to work for this company. From my first job to my permanent job I had a very long journey. I had lot of experiences with many companies when I went for interviews. In some places they had offered a job which I could not accept, in some of the other places where I wanted to get the job they might select someone else instead of me. So my trials and tribulations with one job to another continued till I started working in this company. |
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I worked as an offset printer for 15 years in the graphic arts industry. Your intel shows how we change with life's demands.
Keep up the good work.
Frederick
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thanks a lot and really surprised to know that you worked as a offset printer for 15 years. Great! Still I am visiting a lot of offset printing presses to sell our inks. I think you may know ink manufacturer called Sun chemicals who are part of our group.
I am assuming that landing a job in India is as hard as landing a job in the Philippines, i.e. VERY hard, much harder than finding a job in the US during the deepest recession. Yet you seem to have skipped from job to job with effortless ease. Congratulations on your success, you must be good at what you do.
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Nice to see your comments. I never intended to jump from one job to another this had so happened at that time that I had different job opportunities knocking my door. Now, I am working in my present job for more than 11 years.
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