For many of my years I searched for a job knowing that what I was searching for was not what I wanted to do. Even then I kept my effort upbeat to earn good jobs only to find myself throwing away the jobs at the moment I got an opportunity to do what I wanted to. On finding the long awaited shrine there was so much of peace and tranquility that even the worst scenario seemed the most perfect bliss.

I have been employed for over 7 years now having surfed through different stages. On my very first job I was shaken with a question from a permanent staff of the organization where I was a trainee. I guess it was a third day of work there when I asked the lady if I could borrow a file for reference. I had only a temporary ID card with me then. She was so negative that she said to me “you don’t have an identity here”. I took that no as an answer and went on for four years in the same organization. In these years I saw her going through all sorts of troubles and moving away from the organization. Then I had considered that it was her attitude that forced her to move on. A year later I too left that place because I thought I could not grow any further I was getting saturated. The final year at the organization was stressful. I sent over 350 applications and not even one showed a positive response.

The first success came when I got ready to lower my take home. Immediately I joined my next employer out of desperation but then this was a very small time. In three months with the new organization I got a dream offer and I moved to my next employer. The new posting had everything. But then it came with a cost that I would never get a chance to expand my understanding. I would have to grow within a narrow lane. That was dangerous. Here I came across my second major shock. After 6 months of serving the organization said to me they were paying a salary which was more than what I was supposed to. The human resource department showed me a face saying I was cheating the company. I decided on the very day to end my association at the earliest with the company. Over next 6 months again I hunted jobs working with my might in an organization that did not understand its employee. I left the job sacrificing a years benefits which I was entitled to.

I joined a new organization where my take home was 1/3 of the previous package. But here I was at peace. I could continue for eternity here. Ironically even that 1/3^rd pay I have not received for the past 16 months. I have been working here for 16 months now without drawing any salary. The organization is happy and I am happy. Strange is this world where you will find people like me also who accept what is there for the taking and wait for the next opportunity to come where I can be what I am and excel. Time and again opportunities come if money is not the key. There is so much in this world when money is there and nothing when it is not there