5 things I hate about you!

Those who know about 10.10.1.6 also know about its sad demise. For those who don’t, 10.10.1.6 was the illegal port through which we used to obtain fast net speed from morning 9 to night 10. Many of us used to be so influenced by this timing that we used to feel no different from Cinderella in our surfing chronicles. My entire work schedule used to be governed by this super proxy schedule. But now as it has got caught and I have no knowledge of any other illegal net guzzler, life is like a slow Raj Kumar Barjatiya movie.

But this blog is not about 10.10.1.6. It is about something else. As today because of the slow net speed I am using MS Word to write this blog so that I can post it tomorrow early morning, as I am juggling sentences, fitting flowery words , forming paragraphs, it reminds me of a similar activity I have been doing (or must I say misdoing ) for the last two weeks. And as you must have guessed it correctly, it is preparing my CV for job application.

Now for those who don’t know, a CV in IIT is a big deal. Just think about the guy who has been glued to his heavy textbooks at an age he might not have shaved his first beard on the assurance that if you get into IIT you will get a good job. Who has been kept awake in every poltu meeting so that a post in IIT will help in getting a good job. Then think what will happen when actually that time comes and all you have done is to be put up on a stupid piece of paper.

But I am not exactly a CV guy. I hate seeing the same page of paper and thinking how can it be made perfect (Now after co-authoring a text book I must really refrain myself from saying such statements, but that’s true) I don’t like writing and then thinking a hundred times how I should have been better. I write once, put in my best and that’s it. So when the next room guy tells me he knows people who had made 48 drafts of their CV before finalizing it, I say go to hell. Moreover being an IITian I have been trained and tortured to follow ‘do everything at the last moment’ protocol, which I have successfully followed so much so that I haven’t allowed my garments to be washed till I am surviving on the last shirt. Hence how can you expect such a guy to prepare a resume 20 days before deadline? So, when suddenly your ‘CV God’ friend turns up to your room, asks you to show him whatever crude crap that you have made in name of your resume you do get some hard time. Because like an angry boss he tramples everything that you have created and criticizes everything line after line, line after line and tells you that you suck at writing something, and that really hurts. Nobody tells me what to write and it’s hard to face any brutal criticism related to that.

There is one more thing. Getting an interview call from a reputed consulting firm means excelling into each and every of the so called resume segments like Academic Achievements, Scholastic Achievements, Internships, Projects, Extra-Curricular Activities and Positions of Responsibility. With over a thousand resumes in hand those people would be looking for reason to reject me and not to select me. So in a way, my resume is not about what I am, but how good I am. What marks the onset of my professional life; will that be the way how my whole life would be? This entering the professional world does send some shivers into me, and to survive I think I must prepare myself much before deadlines.

That’s where I think this friend of mine is right, maybe I should take this resume more seriously. A Placement Season might to some appear like the games period in your 6th standard when the two team captains used to prove what Darwin said about selection hundreds of years ago. You saw your friends being called alternatively by the two gods at their service and with every name called your Island of losers became smaller as the chosen ones moved to the prosperous world, till in the end one of them decided to bear with you. Well, if you have experienced this, its better you start preparing your resume seriously because this time it may hurt more. As for me… I will try to convince myself that watching Star Wars series the fourth time might actually help me knowing more about myself.