My Life - Part V

Came November 1993 and I decided to resign from my temporary job with government office. We had planned our wedding in February 1994. Another 3 months and I was going to be taking a new role in my life. Politics in office was unbearable. I could have waited to become permanent employee. The people who presented my case to the managing committee were asked "If he is so good why is he not getting job in IT industry?". When I came to know about this discussion, it made me furious. Did they know my priorities? Do they know why smart IITians work as "babus" in some stupid companies? Why were they working at a post which meant nothing to the outside world? Did they think so high of themselves? Huh.

As soon as I was back from Kanpur, I gave my resignation. I had an offer Rs. 7000 per month with a consulting company who were making software for co-operative banks in Gujarat. Their biggest issue was multi-user system with transaction processing. Bear in mind, this was 1993 and not many relational databases were used in India. We had FoxPro and Novell Netware as a de-facto multiuser system. Transaction processing was never heard of in those days on such DBMS systems. And btw, there was no internet and Google too :-)

That was the first challenge given to me. I went through lot of documentation of FoxPro, Novell NetWare. Then came across something provided by Novell. Wrote some C code to access those transaction processing features in FoxPro and implemented first transaction processing compliant system with one of the co-operative banks in Surat.

This took a little while like 3-4 weeks. It was about time to get paid but I was not paid after a month. I waited and reminded my employer [it was a small outfit] and he said, yeah, just bear for a week or so. This got stretched another 3-4 weeks and I was furious.

I went to this guy's residence to collect money. Had to visit 3-4 times. When his family asked me, I narrated incident and luckily his family was reasonable. That day, they all got together and forced him to pay me for 2 months that I worked with him. Finally, it was time to say good-by to them too. Here I am, about to get married in another month and I said good-bye to yet another job!!

But that day, I had decided, once I get married, I want to get in to a MNC else I don't wan to work anymore. It was a delicate situation but I had to make up my mind as I was going to assume new responsibility in my life.

Feb 1994, I was married to this wonderful girl, Paro. It was one of the best days of my life. No money in savings, but our spirits were high.

We spent all the money that we had in our savings for our honeymoon for next 3 weeks. We had adventurous honeymoon. Details of this is not to be shared with anyone. It is our private life. We cherish our moments whenever either of us feel low. The days we spent rough and makes our spirit elevated whenever we remember those days.

શેર - મોરારી બાપુ ની મુલાકાત માં થી (રજત શર્મા)

કાબે સે બૂતકદે સે કભી બઝ્મે જામ સે
આવાઝ દે રહા હું તુઝે હર મકામ સે .

તું અગર મંદિર મેં હૈ તો મસ્જીદ મેં કૌન
તું અગર બસ્તી મેં પલતા હૈ તો વિરાને મેં કૌન
તું અગર તસ્બિર કે એક દાને મેં હૈ તો દાને-દાને મેં કૌન
તું અગર શમ્મા મેં હૈ તો પરવાને મેં કૌન.

નાં કોઈ ગુરુ નાં કોઈ ચેલા, ભીડ મેં અકેલા, અકેલે મેં મેલા.

સિતારોં કો આંખો મેં મહેફૂઝ રખના બહોત દેર તક રાત હી રાત હોગી
મુસાફિર હૈ હુમ ભી મુસાફિર હો તુમ ભી, ફિર કિસી મોડ પે મુલાકાત હોગી. (બશીર બદ્ર)