In severe dilemma over job selection,,,what to do?
HI Guys,
Using this platform after a long time. Quite different this time though....
My Age is 27 and the developments of past have forced me to introspect deeply & I am not able to solve still. Hence some help needed from fellow puys.
Well, I cleared my HSC in 2004 from a small town in rajasthan with topping the school.(that's where the journey begins from). Initially I thought I could clear PMT,,I had pretty gud acads for state board standards... hence worked hard d whole year,,,but cudnt clear the PMT..I guess overconfidence and lack of coaching were the primary reasons behind it...anyway,,,dint have much options dat time,so continued wid my 3 yr B.Sc. n widout much trouble passed out in 2007 with topping the batch. I always had this conviction that I deserve a better place n chance in life.
In 2007, there was quite a craze for MBA education in Rajasthan almost everywhere n I dint have any interest in any other course,,so thought of pursuing MBA.
This time I wanted to ensure to eliminate reasons such as overconfidence n lack of coaching for failure,,,so moved to the capital city of the state n started preparing for CAT n other MBA tests. Soon, I realized that even this wasnt going to be a cakewalk either. I was from a non english medium school till HSC & a non maths student n presitigous MBA exams like CAT dat time were highly skewed in their favour(not sure about now). So I struggled to perform in all the tests. plus my communication skills were poor. All these things culminated in CAT n I fumbled in CAT 2007 badly n cud get only 85%ile( wid only 40 %ile in english).I dint focus on any other exam. I came back home. I was mocked n humiliated at the failures i met.I stopped meeting ppl n closed myself in my room for next 10 months. during the time i focused on the mistakes i made in the last cat n worked hard on removing the hurdles n bottlenecks. My hard work paid off , I got 98.2%ile in CAT 2008. got calls from IMT,NIRMA,KJ,IIML n A(abm) among others. However, I learnt dat even admissions were highly skewed in engineers' favour(just analysing the stats). I cudnt make it to iimz but due to high cat score was able to get admission in one national mgmt institute( classified for obvious reasons 😉 )
Things were not easy for me as ppl mocked me for my communications skills n my simple dressing sense.(though now i think of it as precious lessons of life). I worked hard during my MBA to make that up(among 25% top students) n secured placement in Infy as an ACON. n I thought all hard work was over. ALAS....
I joined infy in 2011 summers in d beautiful city of hyderabad. initial 2 months were training. Due to no IT bachground, found it a lil tuff in beginning. but thought, things will be gud eventually. however, i was assigned to the BENCH(found out dat this word even exists in competitive environment) after d trg. I tried to find a project, but all in vain. 1 months,,2 ,,3,,,4,5,6 months on bench. n not a single day passed when I dint call Project managers n HR managers.
Finally i was assigned to a project after d long wait. although my functional trg was of no use for dat project. for 3 months i worked in dat project. got appreciation from d client n GPM n SPM ford hard work. however, project got over n i was assigned to a different project. In the begining i was asked to do a different work, but soon I was asked to deliver in the same functional role i was trained for,dat too exclusively ( It was more than an year since the training). I tried watever d best i cud,,but given the loss of edge n grip over d module, it took me some time to come at par wid other acons. n dats what cost me. despite my investing 10-12 hrs a day in office, all of a sudden comany threw me out in cold blood on one afternoon in the name of performance after 20 months workex in early 2013. :((
Kept searching for d jobs in d city but cudnt find anything useful due to lesser amount of workex.(ppl were not even ready to interview me) all IT job options dried. was quite hopeless after 4 months of no job in d city,,,clueless,,confused,,,decided to focus on civil services.
To focus, moved back to my hometown in raj. started preparing for RAS n other PSUz. poured in over 6 months. however, luck wasnt me this time either. missed RAS pre by 2 marks. missed RBI by 3 marks n sebi by 2 marks. However, cleared IBPS PO 3 (which i wrote just for backup). In november 2013, started focusing back on CSAT. focused heavily for next 6 months. Joined BOB as a PO by then in May 2014 n wrote CSAT in Aug 2014. But again missed by a small margin when the final result came in Oct 2014. By then I had become 27 years old.
Now, the BOB has put me in a village as a Joint manager of a small rural branch where I am responsible for verifying the thumb prints of rural consumers whenever they come to withdraw money. NOÂ credit roles despite my impeccable performance during training. n a highly non cooperating n anti MBA lady manager on the top to make my life all d more miserable.
I am highly demotivated to write any exam now. N highly dissatisfed wid d current job. not sure what to do next...quite consfused too...
Please reply if u have any suggestions...
is a sales profile considered petty in terms of work experience for doing mba? I am a BBA grad in marketing, with advertising and branding being my major subjects, I have worked in TOI in their response dept, which essentially deals with selling ad sales. this mainly includes client communication and negotiation. I want to be part of a decent advertising firm and work as an accounts supervisor. is my work ex irrelevant? please help!!