Its Not Too Late!
Its Not Too Late!


A girl was born with many dreams in her eyes…
Among the many dreams, the most ambitious was to become
the best engineer the country has ever seen!
But, was she successful in achieving her dream?
Since childhood, she wanted to achieve much more than her
father, so had a dream to become an engineer and it was not difficult for her
to complete her graduation in Electrical Engineering, from a reputed
Engineering college of Odisha. During the final year, when everyone was
preparing to get selected in campus interviews for the top Software companies
of the nation, she was preparing for companies coming under Public Sector
Undertaking.
“Work performed with higher knowledge or skill, capacity
or ambition, usually brings a correspondingly higher reward-” by Bharat Ratna
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was always echoing in her ears and she kept on
fighting with herself to get a job in PSU companies. Written tests were too
tough, only few companies were recruiting for Graduate Engineer Trainee hiring
with a single digit count under any unreserved category, sometimes there was no
recruitment for Electrical Engineering students. She was meeting most of her
seniors in the written exam center, who were even 4 years senior to her and was
becoming hopeless by assuming her position in that huge crowd. The battle was
between lakhs of students only for a single digit few seats, who were competing
with each other, without knowing that the seats were already reserved for candidates
who were blessed by the merciful hands of some well-known Political Leaders.
With this, she had to accept her failure one day. Her
dream of becoming a good engineer like her father remained stopped there. In
order to get a job, she started moving towards the private sector and got a job
in one of the software companies of the Country.
But, innovation was always in her mind, which was not
allowing her to have a peaceful sleep. She tried to become master in the
programming language, started guiding her colleague, started building new
concepts, she used to work till late nights, was solving problems by referring
many forums and talk,was never leaving a chance to gain more knowledge and to
perform well, she started excelling herself in both technical and functional
areas, was very supportive towards all of her team mates, always believed in
team work rather than showing the superiority. She started shifting many
companies, so that she could learn from many people, she could perform and meet
the ever changing customers’ requirements and could adapt with different kinds
of work cultures. But each and every time, she was failing. By this time, she
had completed 12 years in her professional career, but not able to get that
inner satisfaction of getting something different, something unique, something
special, so that she could say her father “Papa, even though in Private sector,
but still I became an engineer like you, for whose achievement the Organization
was proud of”.
But, is the knowledge and skill set everything in this
Corporate World to get the success…? Does the right person having all these get
accolade? Or anything else?
In one dreadful evening, she got disheartened when she saw
the presentation by his colleague which she had explained him about the product
road map, just few days back, she was dumbfounded! How come her colleague could
steal the product innovation idea from her and showcasing in front of senior
managers! The day and night hard labor of Research, Proof of Concepts,
Development, Presentations, all were stolen by someone else!
She was getting void inside her heart! Lost her thirst and
hunger. Tear was automatically coming out from her eyes! Without any sense,
just lied on the bed. Could not realize when her eyes fall on and she slept
off.
“She had lost her way in a dense dark forest…, with
complete thirstiness and hunger, she was not able to take a single step
forward…, she was too tired and many unknown furious creatures were following
her to attack her….she had to run…she had run ahead, without thinking a while,
despite of so much of energy less…she ran….ran…and ran….at the end she found a
big hole…a big black indefinite hole…there was nothing…what had she to do now…?
Whether she would jump ahead which would lead her to death or would revert back
and fight with all those unknown furious creatures, which were following her…?
No, she cannot accept the failure so soon…! No…, no…, no…, no-way! Did she has
done all those hard work to see this failed day…? She would never allow to let
go all of her efforts waste…! She had to fight…! Yes, she had to fight with all
those unknown furious creatures, she had to win, she had to prove herself that
she has the capability to make an Organization successful and the Organization
would be proud of her contribution. She reverted back and a huge unseen energy
fall on her….” Suddenly she got up from her sleep…, her body was full of sweat
with increased heart beat and she was trembling of fear…..What happened to all
those…? Was it all real or she was dreaming…? Yes, this dreadful incident was a
dream. But, was her real life anything different than this dreadful dream?
No-way…! It’s the same. Still, she was feeling pain in her heart, whenever she
was thinking about the innovated product concept which was stolen from her…
What happened…? Why couldn’t she justify herself even
after these many years of hard work…! This is her duty to provide protection to
her spirit. If she cannot take care of spirit, cannot provide protection from
the external hazardous forces, then no one…, even the strongest energy of the
World can never protect it. So, she had to broad her vision by deepening her
perceptions and take pain in perspective. It would open up a plethora of
positive outcomes that would become clear in the long run. All she needed was a
pair of eyes unblinkered by fear, apprehension and prejudice. Whenever fear
comes, I had to grab and kill it.
She started analyzing herself….what lead her to this
situation…she dug up…dug up…dug up and at last, she was able to find her
mistakes…those were not mistakes…those were blunders… a big blunder in
Corporate World…! A big blunder of sharing all of her knowledge with her
colleagues….! She realized that “Opportunities don’t come to you…you have to
grab them…” Instead of grabbing, she was missing the opportunities…she was
letting go the opportunities to others…! Why was she doing like that…? Because
she was believing in fair working environment…which was never possible. She was
always right point to point. She was not a “Yes Boss” kind of girl…! Because
she was in belief that if she was right and knowledgeable, then boss would
always accept her proposal and if boss had not accepted, then she was not that
much knowledgeable, she had to work more, but in the meantime, the same concept
which was stolen from her was getting praised by her boss which was shared by
the other…! It meant she was not enough skillful to present herself, even
though she was much more knowledgeable than others. She had to present herself
in front of everyone. After all, she was a public speaker, a story teller and a
good presenter, so why could not present herself in a very pleasant manner in
front of anyone! And had to share only that much with others which would not be
harmful for her, she should not have to prove her honesty by sharing hundred
percent knowledge that she had with her. She should not share the greatest
knowledge that she had with her peers, which could lead her to destroy. Her
knowledge should go through others in a communication to a larger group with a
wide variety of audience starting from senior most to junior most. Even the
great Politician Chanakya had told that a person should not be too honest,
straight trees are cut first and honest peoples are screwed first. Besides
this, she had the quality that once she starts working on something, she was
never getting afraid of failure and didn’t abandon it, which could lead her to
a great success. She started believing the concept “There is some self-interest
behind every friendship, there is no friendship without self-interest”, tried
to find out what kind of self-interest her colleagues used to keep in her and
in return of that what they expect from her and she was able to find out a
group of colleagues from which she started hiding her true emotion. She learnt
to say “No”, whenever any of her colleague asked her for some injustice help
which was going against her professionalism. This had a huge impact on her
daily outcome and which in turn boosted her confidence like anything. She
started keeping away herself from the people speaking very sweat words or she
started behaving in a very similar manner with them but without sharing any
information. She started following the motto “even if, a snake is not
poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous”. A girl, always believing
competing with herself, started believing competition with others too. She
stopped mixing up her individual goals with others. She started setting up her
goal in a very regular basis and presenting in front of the senior managers.
She never got scared to ask the question “Why?” to clarify the decision about
the exclusion of a product marketing concept, even to the CEO of the
Organization.
Okay…Fine, she could not do for PSUs, but her Organization
will definitely proud of her contribution one day. Still the words of Bharat
Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya -“Work performed with higher knowledge or
skill, capacity or ambition, usually brings a correspondingly higher reward-”
were echoing in her ears and she kept on working to fulfill her dream, but this
time with a confidence that she could beat her enemy whoever would come in her
way. She would never give a chance to other. Even though, its late, but it’s
not too late!!!