One year in pune
This is something I wished to write a long time back..but due to my laziness it took such a long time before I decided to pen it down today. What I am going to write now is one of the most beautiful phases in the short span that I have lived, but the memories that I carried over from this one year has been enormous. Before writing this down, I would like to tell the reason for this one year being gr8. The main reason being unfortunately, i had a very boring and dull college life. More explanations may not be needed if I mention the name of the college where I did my mechanical engineering. Its none other than the notoriously strict Sathyabama engineering college in Chennai. I still rue the decision to study in this school(its not a college, anyway) where neither did I learn too much about mechanical engg nor I enjoyed my life as a teenager bunking classes, watching movies or flirting with babes!!! The only good thing that happenend in those four years was getting to know my good friend Isaiah Ranjith Kumar. Otherwise there is nothing much to cherish… I might write a separate blog on the life in sathyabama later, right now I ll stick to the topic on hand!! Another reason why this one year has been memorable is because, whatever I have achieved till now is because of what I have learned in that one year. Before starting to write about that one year, I would like to thank my previous employer for providing with this opportunity, my friends who stayed with me in pune for one year who made my stay memorable and also my trainers Mr. Manoj Chauhan and Mr. Siegfried Mueller. There is one more trainer whom I don’t want to thank, because he was the only villain in that whole one year(chuckles)!!!
How it all started
I was one of those unlucky fellows who completed the degree in 2002 when US was reeling under severe recession. There were not many campus interviews at that time and since me be an exceptionally average student, I couldnt go past GDs in the very few campus recruitments that I attended. After completing my college, I was happily sitting at home waiting for an opportunity to come. Preparing resumes and attending interviews were the main job for me in that whole one year!! In between I had got a job in one mannar & sons company with a pay of 1000 bucks a month. But I didn’t work there for more than a day. After almost a year, I got an opportunity to work in sundaram motors in Chennai as a trainee!!! I was asked to undergo training in Mercedes Benz Workshop. That was my first tryst with a passenger car and the association still continues. That’s where I came to know about the one year training held at the Mercedes company in pune for engineering graduates sponsored by the dealerships. The name of the course was mechatronics and the main idea of the training was the train the engineering graduates to diagnose the complex electrical and electronical faults in the Mercedes Cars. Since diagnosing a complaint required system knowledge, quantative ability and knowledge of using diagnose testers which were in English, it was not possible to train the technicians who were already working in the workshop. So the good souls in the Mercerdes plant decided to take engineering graduates from each dealership and train them in diagnosing the complaints. This is one decision which they will rue later!!
