Monday, December 18, 2006

DECLARE FUNCTION ( SOFTWARE INDUSTRY EXPLAINED);

Thank you blogspot.com

cause this blog has gone ahead taking me from the experiences in college to my job now . it seems weird sometimes but every passing phase of life has something associated with it and especiially with a sarcastic bent of mind like mine , i guess i couldnt have felt happier than at blogspot.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, men have come and men have gone ...but life is still going on . From the crazy and reckless i have now landed myself among the group that calls itself the "harbringers of a new revolution" - the software engineers . The biggest fact of this world maybe is that fact is stranger than fiction . We look at software engineers as the elite group of people who live on a diet of coke and pepsi and pizzas, working the nights and days and then suddenly basking in the sunshine and glory of success and omnipotence - the days when softwares made change the way the world looks at the computer .

If you think this story is going to enforce that view then maybe its time to click that lil "x" button on the window.

alright enough is enough i guess....satisfying the puritants who believe every article needs and introduction . i guess its time to go the western way , fire away .

from getting selected into and IT firm in college to getting here , the journey has been hardly stupendous. a long wait of almost 6 months finally frutified into the enrollment into a firm at pune. Here i am , this is me ....a software engineer ( read " dignified labourer!!!!" ) .

All the same ..

first day we come in ....gathered together like a herd of sheep readied for slaughter...the nemesis has finally come. four years of engineering seem like nonsense when the instuctor finishes with his first job - letting you know that all you have is bulshit and here is where were gonna put some sense into you nincompoops....(very encouraging indeed !!!!!) . all the same its like the first day .....pseudocodes....c++ ....sql and what not.....with almost everything passing across your brains tangentially ...the day ends with a note....



"PEOPLE THAT WAS JUST AN INTRODUCTION- WE'LL COME ACROSS THE REAL STUFF TOMORROW OK ";


hell yeah !!! talk about programming.....we got viruses in our brains with the auto delete function .

weirdness has been the hallmark of the software industry

Q: why this stream ???
A: business requirement !!!


Q: why such a late joining ???
A: business requirement !!!


Q: why is the vending machine not working ???

hell yeah you get the answer

A: business requirement !!!


well thats the way the business runs.....it is based only on logic and yet every explanation , every action and every reaction is anything but logical .

i guess the metamorphosis from being a good ol college kid to being a software pro is proving to be one that i certainly am not going to cherish .

HELL !!!


keep ya posted on whats on and whats not....whats hot n whats hot ...in pune

keep loggin on ....n till next time ....ciao

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the party, Nitin - You have a rollercoster ride ahead. Trust me, I am on to the 8th year :)

And yeah, you guessed it right - It is not something you will cherish...