Chapter 8 – I Was Trying Hard : Dehradun, India (2000)

Now, I am moving ahead with my autobiography, as I previously said that in the year 2000, I don’t have a job and was looking for it. My struggling period was going on again, lots of stuff was happening in my life along with my studies. I have degrees but no job in my hands, during that phase of my life, a thought came into my mind that I should go out of India, I had this thought in my mind since I was pursuing a computer course.

I Was Trying Hard To Find New Job

I don’t have much confidence at that time and there was no passport, and my education was also not completed. I hold no certification, I was unable to speak English nor even hold any corporate base experience letter. So in short thinking about all this, I use to think that I won’t be able to go out of the country and the second thing was that from within I had a feeling that I don’t want to go out of India. Many people use to advise me that I should go to Delhi, Mumbai, etc. place to get a good job and there was nothing in Dehradun, as at that time I use to stay in Dehradun. I don’t know why I never get attracted to Delhi and Mumbai, all I use to think was I will stay at Dehradun or will go out of Dehradun but not Delhi/Mumbai.

Trying Hard

Trying Hard

All I was doing at that time was taking tuition classes, from which I use to earn around 2000 to 3000 INR per month but apart from this, I use to ask my friends if they can help me to get a job. One day one of my friends was working in a government institute named the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) He said that there were lots of foreigners who do visit his place, as it was a huge organization of government. Actually, there was a requirement work related to the oracle in his institute, so he asked me if I will be able to do it or not. I said yes I will be able to work. As I have to do something so I started visiting the institute daily, they use to work on big computers and it was such a huge place.

They use to give me some money according to the budget around 3000 INR, so after completing my work I use to ask my friend if he can help me to get a job over here but it was difficult to get a job over there. He consoles me by saying that we have lots of foreign clients who were in need of software developers so I have an eye on you and will recommend you if such a requirement comes. At least once a week, I use to meet my friend as the band was getting better with time.

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Time was flying and almost 5 months went away like this. One day I was sitting ideally at home suddenly of I got a call from my friend who works in IIRS that there was one foreigner who wants a person for work and wants to meet me. So I said that I will be there tomorrow. The thing for which I was worried about was How I am going to talk to him as I was not comfortable speaking the English language, so I have an inferiority complex of not speaking English at that time.

Anyways I still went to meet him and my friend introduced him to me and we had 5 minutes of talk, he was okay with me and said that he was going to Mirzapur which was ahead of Kanpur City in India. He was a US citizen and he was a project manager at Mirzapur’s office. The special thing about him was he can talk in the Hindi language as well but he talks in the English language with me, he said that he will go to that place and send a mail to me when he has my requirements, the rest of the things I will discuss afterward.

He hand-over me his contact number along with the E-mail address. At that time, I had made a new Email ID so daily I use to check my mail if he might have sent me a mail or not. It was a week I haven’t received mail so I ask my friend about it, he said not to worry and he will contact me soon.

One day I received his mail mentioning that I have to go to Delhi to meet a guy and he will take my interview, I was that still I have to clear a barrier to go ahead. Finally, I went to Delhi and meet the concerned person, while he was a very friendly person must say that, he was also an IT Engineer. He asks me for lunch at his home so I went there for lunch and had a nice friendly conversation with him. He likes me as a person and confirms me for work, he said that he will say yes to the above authority. I become happy and came back, and started waiting for his mail.

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Written by Ajay Kumar
An Indian Living in Bangkok, Thailand. By profession, I am an e-Business Consultant & Entrepreneur. My Hobbies are Traveling & Living a Healthy Lifestyle. Ask me any question on my Instagram