It is around 7 AM on a monday morning and I am on the way to Pune for a meeting with some really smart folks that run engineering services for a large automotive giant. On the way I am using my GPS Navigator and it is giving me the directions as to how to get there.
I am truly enjoying the ride, the driver is driving the vehicle at over 120KMph, which is a good feeling, because in bombay, most of the time you do not cross 20Kmph. Heck I dont think my cars 5th gear has been engaged in a many
months :)
Well getting driven is much better than driving, specially with so many trucks etc on the way, remind me of driving in Detroit Metropolitan area, when you had to drive on your own avoid heavy automotive traffic on crappy roads.
This is much better, plus I get to enjoy the scenary of the fresh green vegetation, rains just about finishing in India. Sometimes I think going out to visit a place via a car instead of flying is more fun and more interesting as
it gives you so much to see.
I am planning to visit the far east in detail and try to get to meet many more folks from the automotive, telecom and entertaiment industry (audio) for my navigation products. I am in touch with many but it does not hurt to meet more of them. I always enjoy meeting people from all walks of life.
On the personal front, the little baby girl of mine is becoming big and smarter, she is able to put on her shoes all by herself and when we are going out, she brings my shoes to me stating that I should get my lazy self going.
The son takes on after me, as he wants his 1 year old sister to help him get ready. He too has become smart and is learning all sorts of useful and useless things at school. Wifey is ploughing away hard at banking, (the world in her part is kinda of falling apart with many US banks going under). I think it is tough to convince people to put in money into things that most people do not understand. Investment banking is more about education than anything else (come to think of it, most investors do not really understand very many industries outside of banking, even if they do understand that).
Lots is happening in India from security issues to banking issues, but on my end life pretty much remains the same and as usual I am still trying to find my place in the system.
till next time.
Shiva
3 comments:
Shiva,
Stumbled upon your blog while doing some research on R2I. I've been in the land of milk and honey for 10 years and plan to return to swades soon (BLR). Your blog and your R2I success was a heartening read. I am hoping to pick your brain and see if you know of any reliable head hunters (you may have used some ?) that place upper management folks in IT . I have 10+ years as Architect-Program Manager in J2EE; currently work for the second largest bank in the US and have a string stints prior to this at US financial giants.
I blog (used to !) at http://www.indimag.com, it's now in hibernation, will revive it soon. If you find any info that may help me, I would appreciate if you can drop a line to madhug_rao@yahoo.com
Again, wish you continued success in India. Stories like yours are an inspiration for R2I aspirants like me..
Cheers,
Madhu
Hi Shiva,
I found your blog while researching for return to india forums and information. your blog is very useful and good to get in tuch with somebody who has gone through things which I may or will go through. I have been living in US for more than 11 years and work for largest PC company in the world. I have couple of questions regarding R2I adventure:
1. How did you approach the head hunters because I can't seem to find good ones.
2. I have a kid who is a US citizen. I was wondering if you thought about your kids education in the US when they grow up and want to do their Under-grad in US. I mean did you do any research how will you pay for it and will they be paying in-state or out of state tuition since the difference in huge.
Pankaj Gupta
Dear Pankaj, Jobs you will find through personal networking, head hunters are not much of use.
For the kid, when child grows up he/she will figure out where to study and what to study, not a concern right now.
thanks for enjoying the blog.
regards,
Shiva
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