Jaygovind Sahu

Disclaimer : The content below does not aim at making any statement about anything living or dead. Anything like that merely is a coincidence. This post is more like an entry in a personal diary. I am writing more for myself now.

It's me... or perhaps You too

My lecturer who was teaching me ‘Programming in C’ had made one thing very clear to me – that I will never be comfortable with programming and it would be very difficult for me to pass the final examination keeping in view the knowledge and attitude I have towards programming. Anyways, those words gave me a kick on my back and somehow I was able to get a ‘C’ in ‘Programming in C’. It needed the combined effort of me and my room-mate Mahesh.

I was very comfortable in C++. I got an ‘O’ in my lab. I liked studying RDBMS and somehow found it very interesting. Don’t take me otherwise, but it really is . Again I got an ‘O’. Then I took my first out-of-curriculum language course in summer, 2007. It was for Java. At that time, eight people (including me) were sharing a single PC to practice programming after the classes. I was catching up with things very easily. While studying the advanced Java part, I learned HTML and I liked working with it. My friends made me believe that I am really good with these things.

After six months I was the one who was supposed to design the website for the tech-fest of my college. I tried applying JSP for this but things did not come out to be so easy. Then came one of my bro – Piyush who helped me learn PHP-MySQL and helped me finish the work of the website. I found PHP a very easy language, to code, to understand and to communicate with the database. After the first website, perhaps I was wrongly taken as a good website designer by the people around me (I am trying to put things in simpler language). I got a lot of work to do and all the time I chose PHP. I used it in my curriculum-project and then after the college, I used WordPress for my website. So, until my joining at job, I continued working with PHP although I knew that it is hardly going to be my career. The chances of working in PHP in my job were very less but my interest was not.

In my job, my stream training was on MS .Net. We were using Visual Studio 2008. I had never used such a friendly IDE before. I did not know what COBOL was but I remember saying this line to one of my friends – “.Net is so easy. Thank God we are not coding with COBOL or anything.”. Coding was never difficult. We had a very good and able facilitator with us. I was very happy with I was going through the web development part using ASP .Net. I was very relaxed thinking that I am in a stream like this.

When we got our offices, I was informed that I would be working with some Mainframe technology. I laughed at myself when I came to know the programming is done with COBOL. I neither had a choice nor do I have now. I am now trying to find out something in it which would seem interesting to me. Logic and algorithm have always fascinated me and that is why I still have hope that someday I will really love working with something which would earn me my salary.

I understand that in a software industry we have to respect our work… I really understand this. I also understand that so far as Career-building is concerned, I am in a very good field to work in. Within 2-3 years I may get a chance to go abroad and earn little bigger. But I still feel like I am missing something…