On 6th March 2006, I received a mail from my cousin 'Prem' titled 'All this... in Chennai ;-)' highlighting the modern buildings and upcoming building in Chennai. I had saved the mail since it was fascinating.
Today on 9th April 2010, I reopened the same mail. The first building in the mail is 'ascendas' where I am working for the past ~2.5 years without even knowing that I admired this building 4 years ago.
Many times what we want most is very close to us without our knowledge. I had realized it now!
My life in ascendas started with Merrill Lynch. 2 years ago, I moved to Bally in the building. People move cities and places when they shift companies. In my case, I need to travel 2 floors higher.
My career started with Caritor, a IT service company which later acquired Keane, a fortune 500 company when I almost completed 2 years there. I moved to Merrill Lynch from there with great expectations dropping my US trip. Unfortunately, my stint with Merrill lasted just 6 months. I moved away from Merrill when the great recession of 2008 started. Merrill, being a investment bank felt the recession little earlier to the rest of the world. This recession is mainly attributed to Mortgage section of US banks. Sadly, I was in the same department of ML. Merrill was trying to push people from Mortgage division to other departments then. But I had different plans. I moved to Bally Tech, a gaming company.
In my 4.5 years career, I am proud to be a part of a IT service company, a Investment bank and a leading casino gaming company. But my average years in a company was less than a year 2 years ago which was a bit of worry. But now it is 1.5 years. I would like to make the average at least 2 years.
Here is a couple of panoramic shots taken by me lately from the 11th floor in ascendas!
2 comments:
Tell us the exact reason for shuffling the team in ML. How many releases did you screw there?
Being a sports freak and a chess Champion i guess its a right choice to be in a gaming company.
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