Review of 2011.
2011, looking back has been a mixed experience ... but overall a wonderful year...
It started on a frustrating note with ever increasing work pressure at itz... with growing impact on personal and professional life, Soon it reached the point of no return and I put down my papers.
Even the separation process was a painful one.
After a small break I joined iGate Patni. It was still Patni and not iGate Patni officially.
At iGate Patni things began to work out slowly mainly due to lesser work pressure... even though travel time had increased... pressure and anxiety levels came down heavily. Work culture and workload wise it is far better...
Things began improving thereafter.
We celebrated Nabha's first birthday which was followed by a much needed vacation at Mahabaleshwar.
in around May Deepa too resumed her career. it was a big booster since by then we were almost cash strapped. Slowly we foreclosed couple of loans which again added to savings...
Now we were feeling stable and except for some troubles on home front things were fine.
Then we started looking for a flat in thane in view with my job location airoli and also many other options available for Deepa to switch. After searching for around a month, we finalized and booked flat around ghodbandar road area.
That was again a landmark accomplishment on personal front.
To complete the toppings, near the end of the year another wonderful thing happened.
I started thinking about something I had never done before. My own business.
one fine day it just came to my mind that i should start something of my own in the ecommerce space.
Since i work in web application development, i had complete idea about the technical part. so i decided to give it a shot. I liked the idea myself and all others i shared it with. Also i figured out that initial fixed cost also was something i could easily bear based on my earning. It was not long before the domain... logo... the hosting services etc were done and The Indian Crafts Market was ready with "Work in progress" page.
Though it is yet to become operational, a lot of ground work has already been done in last couple of months. This can not be completed without mention of Vrushali, only friend apart from Deepa and Nitin with whom I initially discussed my ideas in fact the she was first audience while I analyzed and discarded all my stupid business ideas. She has since been great support and guide and has lot of influence on the way things are shaping up on this business front.
Somehow I was afraid that during initial phase any discouragement would kill my core idea of a having a business in infancy. So I was kept my thoughts within my absolute trusted circle.
So far so good and now I am actually looking forward to complete legal formalities and reach next milestone.
So all in all it was an excellent end to an old year and a wonderful start for new year with some worthwhile target to achieve.
All the very best to myself :-)
It started on a frustrating note with ever increasing work pressure at itz... with growing impact on personal and professional life, Soon it reached the point of no return and I put down my papers.
Even the separation process was a painful one.
After a small break I joined iGate Patni. It was still Patni and not iGate Patni officially.
At iGate Patni things began to work out slowly mainly due to lesser work pressure... even though travel time had increased... pressure and anxiety levels came down heavily. Work culture and workload wise it is far better...
Things began improving thereafter.
We celebrated Nabha's first birthday which was followed by a much needed vacation at Mahabaleshwar.
in around May Deepa too resumed her career. it was a big booster since by then we were almost cash strapped. Slowly we foreclosed couple of loans which again added to savings...
Now we were feeling stable and except for some troubles on home front things were fine.
Then we started looking for a flat in thane in view with my job location airoli and also many other options available for Deepa to switch. After searching for around a month, we finalized and booked flat around ghodbandar road area.
That was again a landmark accomplishment on personal front.
To complete the toppings, near the end of the year another wonderful thing happened.
I started thinking about something I had never done before. My own business.
one fine day it just came to my mind that i should start something of my own in the ecommerce space.
Since i work in web application development, i had complete idea about the technical part. so i decided to give it a shot. I liked the idea myself and all others i shared it with. Also i figured out that initial fixed cost also was something i could easily bear based on my earning. It was not long before the domain... logo... the hosting services etc were done and The Indian Crafts Market was ready with "Work in progress" page.
Though it is yet to become operational, a lot of ground work has already been done in last couple of months. This can not be completed without mention of Vrushali, only friend apart from Deepa and Nitin with whom I initially discussed my ideas in fact the she was first audience while I analyzed and discarded all my stupid business ideas. She has since been great support and guide and has lot of influence on the way things are shaping up on this business front.
Somehow I was afraid that during initial phase any discouragement would kill my core idea of a having a business in infancy. So I was kept my thoughts within my absolute trusted circle.
So far so good and now I am actually looking forward to complete legal formalities and reach next milestone.
So all in all it was an excellent end to an old year and a wonderful start for new year with some worthwhile target to achieve.
All the very best to myself :-)
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