life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups

A group of alumni of a reputed college, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for each of you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other’s cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn’t change. Some times, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it.”

So, don’t let only the cups drive you… enjoy the coffee!!!!!!

frm .. !. Rich Dad,Poor Dad..its a RAT rACE

“If you look at the life of the average-educated, hard-working person, there is a similar path. The child is born and goes to school. The proud parents are excited because the child excels, gets fair to good grades, and is accepted into a college. The child graduates, maybe goes on to graduate school and then does exactly as programmed: looks for a safe, secure job or career. The child finds that job, maybe as a doctor or a lawyer, or joins the Army or works for the government.Generally, the child begins to make money, credit cards start to arrive in mass, and the shopping begins, if it already hasn’t. “Having money to burn, the child goes to places where other young people just like them hang out, and they meet people, they date, and sometimes they get married. Life is wonderful now, because today, both men and women work. Two incomes are bliss.

They feel successful, their future is bright, and they decide to buy a house, a car, a television, take vacations and have children. The happy bundle arrives. The demand for cash is enormous. The happy couple decides that their careers are vitally important and begin to work harder, seeking promotions and raises. The raises come, and so does another child and the need for a bigger house. They work harder, become better employees, even more dedicated.They go back to school to get more specialized skills so they can earn more money. Maybe they take a second job.

Their incomes go up, but so does the tax bracket they’re in and the real estate taxes on their new large home, and their Social Security taxes, and all the other taxes. They get their large paycheck and wonder where all the money went. They buy some mutual funds and buy groceries with their credit card.The children reach 5 or 6 years of age, and the need to save for college increases as well as the need to save for their retirement. . “That happy couple, born 35 years ago, is now trapped in the Rat Race for the rest of their working days. They work for the owners of their company, for the government paying taxes, and for the bank paying off a mortgage and credit cards.

“Then, they advise their own children to `study hard, get good grades, and find a safe job or career.’ They learn nothing about money, except from those who profit from their naïveté, and work hard all their lives. The process repeats into another hard-working generation.This is the `Rat Race’

keep ur PASSION burning !...

Maybe you've been wondering whether it's even right to follow your goal if it doesn't feel as exciting now. Maybe you've started making excuses to yourself in case you fail, or you can't really recall why you were so excited in the first place. Well hang on a moment! Remember you had good reasons to follow your goals at the time and you need to recall those reasons not just logically but with your heart and your feelings. Stay loyal to your goals even when it feels thankless and you will get the right reward at the right time.

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A. Edison

People have always known that persistence and perseverance are a key ingredient in success. Hence the old saying "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again". Studies of successful entrepreneurs show that the millionaires in this world possess a tremendous level of perseverance - they stick at it not just when the going gets tough, but even when others tell them to stop.As it is said thousand of times..........

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." Steve Jobs!...

my mistake {or should I call it xperience}

Frendz once a great person sayz “money is not everything”…… “but who wants everything …… THy want money.”------
Requirement Analysis: It’s a game where you either kick others or else, you are kicked. Where you say you have done your full even though you don’t know what’s happening. It all happens in a place where you smile at strangers and congratulate people when they have just given a presentation you could not understand. It’s a place where you steal someone else’s good work and show case it as your sole achievement. All these and more action in one place! No, it’s not Bollywood; neither it’s a big gambling casino in Las Vegas. It’s our own software industry.You don’t have to job hunt to get into this place. It hunts you. Easy to get through an interview. But surviving is grueling. You may survive if you have properties like over activeness, sleeplessness, tirelessness, self praising and enthusiasm without any reasons. Arranging project parties, getting involved in team lunches are added advantages for success in future.

TRAINING Program): Once you are in here, you must develop the property to sit where you are asked to without further questions and get up and leave when you feel that the stars are out. The training period is actually to develop that quality in you. After the 2 month training period you are ready to take any crap that is put our way. First few weeks people live in dreams, they are absolutely in a different world. Company provided hostels and world class facilities are enough to lure college kids.Work, it’s not easy to get. After training there is a period called “Bench”, most of people get into that zone and most important thing is unlike training no time limit is defined for it. If you are lucky enough you might get a PC, so you can come to office, send forwards, browse internet, write blog and fill bulletin boards with brilliant ideas. For few days it seems very good, no work and at the end of month you get salary, what more can one want. In few days a person gets bored of it,but I didn’t get boredhe goes to manager asking for work, he threatens to write mails to higher authorities, he is ready, ready to work, he wants to show his skills.

Coding: But once you are put into project, you are expected to work, work like hell, day and night. And yes, at the end of the day you will get some doggy biscuits. Beware, if you are not smart enough to show case your work (however meager it is), you end up with more work and of course, you very well get to clap for the appreciation showered on others for the work you had accomplished. But there is something more that the biscuits and that is the bone. That bone is always dangling in front of you, its called onsite. People say once you get the bone, all your poverty is gone, but at what cost?As it is rightly said, the crowd is always at the bottom of the ladder. Once you are up a few rungs, then its smooth sailing. But getting there is the challenge. It not only requires technical skills but quality to over ride all others in your way. The harder you fight, the easier you climb the rungs. And the best part is that the fights need not be just. They can be anything ranging from back stabbing to arguing. This is for your fellow competitors. With your higher ups you have to be a smiling, sweet, hard working figure. It definitely need not be genuine. You can always act. It’s surprising why we don’t have an award for best performance in acting rather than in technical skills.So it’s basically wearing different masks with different people within the same place. Ultimately you forget who you were, who you wanted to be and what you are at present. Summarizing it - you lose your identity.

Load Testing: The sad part is yet to come. There are souls within such firms who don’t fight, don’t back stab and don’t have a voice but they are hard working, dedicated and sincere. They are genuinely interested and are real gems. The only quality they lack is self praise. They don’t know how to project what they did and what they want to do. But given a platform, they can be great achievers. Alas, the company doesn’t favor people like that.

So our poor souls slog like anything, day in and night out. Finally on the D day the project is released, it is a success but the limelight is shared by the great fighters. In the celebrations and bash that follows, the poor souls are all but forgotten. They are the foundation, but who cares about the foundation, it’s all above that matters.Well the story never ends. The appraisals come and go. And now we don’t have to explicitly mention who got appraised and who did not. But it is business as usual in the industry. Poor souls are promised on-site opportunities and hence not appraised as of now. But we know nothing is going to change. We know who is going take the flight to work on site next time.

Deployment: Ultimately we understand that we have wasted some prime part of our life in a worth less place that never recognized our sincerity. They never had the confidence in us, not because we were less worth but because we forgot to show case ourselves. So now we end up with nothing but some doggy biscuits.-

Unique selling Proposition{4E wraped in a P}

People have different USP's {Unique selling Proposition} like determination,hardworking, sincere ..My USP is 4E wraped in a P . I will just take a second to explain that...4E- meansENERGY {do u have energy to complete the task}ENERGIZE OTHERS {are u able to energize others}EDGE {say YES or NO not MAY-BE} &EXECUTION.and the P iz PASSION.watever i do.. i do it for passion.PASSION..PASSION to complete the task.PASSION to be Passionate."A PASSION TO PERFORM"

Here I am, sitting on a comfy chair, in the cubicle of CAPGEMINI one of the world's largest SOFTWARE giant, listening to BRYAN ADAMS . When I take a glance around, I see people chatting with coffee mugs in their hands. I see people switching their PC windows from Orkut to mainframe Sessions (I bet their reflex has never been so good) as their PM arrives. I too see people working hard towards Innovation to do some good to themselves and to this industry.I have seen different kinds of people all my life.

Four years of my college life has brought in a drastic change in me. I have sweet n bitter memories of my college life. A lot of good things happened to me in those 4 years, I made new friends, I got to learn a lot about life and did party a lot. But then, bad things had to happen too. I was happy to get a Software job in an MNC of excellent Brand Name. But now why do I feel that this is not what I want from life? Now why the excitement of being independent has diminished.

I had always made up my mind to take up MBA admission exams after 2 years of work ex. So why this new urge to pursue MBA asap has taken birth? Now why do I regret participating in those time killing parties during the final year of my college life? why do I feel that I should have sat in my room at that time n should have studied for my MBA entrances?And what if I am not satisfied even after my MBA degree? There is no end to desire. There is no end to achievements. There is no end to life. There is no end to this rat-race. Nobody will be able to reach the finish line of this rat race.

Every sense of achievement lasts for a short span of time. Life takes on our mind again and we resume our hard work, efforts and strive for excellence. Whatever we will do, there will be bigger things to pursue."Everything happens for the Good".... May be or may be not.