What 2024 taught me :

First half of the Year

• I was full of hope expecting new beginnings as I wanted to leap further from a long nap of training and three months of rest - doing nothing.
• I got into a new project where I learnt that I should have the guts to say "No", and that doesn't mean you are weak. I didn't like the closed infrastructure in Chennai One office for which I could have easily avoided that project but my Never give up attitude made me say yes eventually wasting the next 6 months. Here I learnt how it is tough for a person to survive in IT who doesn't want to speak.
• I later realised that here in IT, you can be special but if you don't know to communicate well what's the use in a collaborative environment. If you believe you are special Sorry, others are too, they don't show up much. One may think speaking as a waste of time, but we can't judge an over speaking person knows nothing. They may know everything and be down to earth too.
• Meanwhile in my personal life I stopped being active in instagram in my personal account for a while.
• Then I being alone in PG led me to try meme, reels cultures in my movie review page in Instagram.
• This was part of my life which I will cherish forever. I could see good reach for my content, though I feel it as superficial or surreal, it motivates me to move further.

Second half

• Got into a dream project in a different place, a well spaced infrastructure that doesn't feel cramped. There was a niche with how people talk here.
• I tried speaking more, maintaining a consistent Rapo with the team building trust and name for my own. Some people learn only by getting hit, this is true in my case. I tried to work my part to the best giving the intended results on time. I didn't look at the importance of my work, I worked on all possible areas from Excel to Daily Mail Updates.
• Here I learnt consistency and Automation. You don't have to super intelligent to carry out daily activities, but how you try to improvise the process makes all the difference.
• Getting to know the project working from low level gives immense knowledge to work on it. Though still I lack business knowledge. I somehow try to make the daily process time efficient by automating them.
• This part of the year I was with more self-doubts and overthinking, which led to losing my 30k mobile. This is purely because of that where am I going in life question and overthinking the past.
• It didn't stop with that the insanity went to buy a phone without contentment and trying to return it, and buying another phone.
• I went into DigitalHub store in vadavalli, there the person treated me inferior just by my looks. He had a preconceived notion that I will not buy anything.
• I wanted to break it, - I bought a phone, he made a blunder of giving a purple colour phone. I overheard hum talking to his manager that the color is purple. The manager was saying it's OK give it, as he already broken the seal and opened it
•  The main reason I wanted to switch was weight, but thus phone being more weighted I somehow agreed to buy it, just to prove that I may look poor but I can buy  15k worth mobile too.
• I type this blog on that phone, it looks royal outside but the weight, slowness and slow charging it comes with are its weak points. After all I'm too a middle class man who wants that immediate richness especially when he loses belief of his own skills to slowly get to that point.
• I understood the way I look makes me look intelligent or foolish. The marketer didn't say about fast charging capacity, diapky type, but only Ram and Rom.
• Now I have two phones Vivo Y28s and Samsung F15 5g. I need to make a 15 k extra to equalize the loss I have made.
• These Samsung group of phones are a cheaters in a way of giving a royal look they compromise features, Iphone too.

• I understood that even if I work the part given to me with 100% sincerity, there is no progress until I learn something new every day, as I can get replaced easily by anyone.
• I had to visit police station to file a complaint, my stereotype of who police was wrong when I met them, they - the new gen, is more friendly.
• The current project domain is my favourite - retail where there is much to learn, I hope one day I know better and be able to contribute more.
• I started to going Sai Baba temple whenever I came to Coimbatore. It was one of those things I did during my very young childhood. I want to follow it as a practice now also.
• Everybody says the third year in one's career makes one think if he is really good at it, leading to self-doubt. I experienced it too; some people take the plunge and work on themselves to sculpt them to ones needs. I too do.