Well!! My training is finally over. Had to slog it out for 38 working days (that’s how everything is counted in this world- number of hours worked, number of working days). Here is a brief review of my typical day.
Get up at 6:45am. Get ready. Have breakfast; reach pickup point by 8:15am. Reach office at around 9am. From 9to6 it’s all about studying with occasional coffee-break. Lunch is from 1to2pm. Once my shift is over, I board the bus, reach home by 7pm. Take rest, catch up with friends, have dinner and study for some or the other test. And then my eye’s starting closing on their accord. I catch a glimpse of the clock- it shows 10:30 pm. It’s late. Got another long day to fight out . And off I go, drifting to sleep, only to get up once the alarm rings the next day and again the routine repeats.
The test’s were tough to say the least coz anything could come. It was told to us in the very beginning that only 20% would be covered in the class, rest was self-study. And self-study it was. Learning a fully new programming language, and giving tests as though we were master’s in it was damn hard. Never had I imagined my self coming to office on Saturday-Sunday to study. I had to come to office as all resources was on the system or available on the net. Staying back in office till 8.30 pm for week’s just to study; Working on a Saturday. Reaching home dead tired so that all I could do was go off to sleep. The test’s actually psyched everyone out. Never in my life- either in school or in college, had I worked so hard.
The last few days have made me realize what my parents have been going through for years. Why they go off to sleep so early. Its barely two months, and I sit thinking whether or not I’ll be able to carry out this schedule for years to come. It’s a tough life. No doubt the pay-cheque tries to balance things out but still….
