All Shook Up

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I can not sleep. I am spending so many nights awake, looking at the ceiling. I may have a few reasons to explain this to myself. But I am not sure which one or maybe two in particular are troubling me this much. Both my professional and personal lives are a mess these days.

It was 7 January, 2009. That fateful day for around 50K Satyam employees. I do not get frustrated easily. But 15 weeks and too much of failed (yet) efforts to land up with a new (& hopefully better) job later, the frustration is slowly but surely sinking in. Its not like there are no jobs out there. But the probability of getting a job profile you want is inversely proportional to the level of desperation with which you are looking for the new job. I guess in this time of recession, you have to take what you get. But despite my best efforts, I could not convince myself to take up this new job which was offering me a BAD profile and a 10% cut on my current CTC.

One might say what were you thinking. And that why was I even listening to such offers. But I justified that to myself when I came across as yet unsubstantiated but quite strong rumours that the CTC will go down by 10% soon. And then the fact that the 10% variable part of the CTC is already gone. I am looking at a loss of around 19% on the current CTC already. And after one year of service, people in our industry used to get hikes of around 20%. Those were the times.

Money matters but then you can never have enough of it. The profile was BAD and I am happy to have refused that particular offer. And I am thankful to all my friends & well-wishers for without their good counsel, I might have made a mistake which I am sure I would have been regretful of later on.

Life otherwise is fine. Girls are complex creatures. IPL 2 has started. Liverpool are out of Champions' League, but what a glorious exit. Probably the best way to go. The chase for the Premier League title is still alive, mathematically at least. I read somewhere that last year Manchester United dropped 7 points in their last 6 games under pressure from Chelsea. I certainly would welcome any such possibility. We need them to drop only 6 though. Go Arsenal. Go Manchester City. Liverpool is playing great football. Benitez is playing great mind-games with SAF. But all this & league doubles over Manchester United and Chelsea might just go in vain. There were so many draws. But I don't mind this last one with Arsenal. That was a classic football match. Anyway I would have accepted a strong showing in BPL & UCL as good performance in the beginning of the season. And such a strong run-in for the BPL title is good for me.

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