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its been an exciting and a crazy decade since we moved out of campus - got married on dec 22 to manisha - completed 10 years of our co-existence - going thru the peaks and troughs of life in mumbai and loving every bit of the journey
started out being a dealer on the stock exchange, moved to set-up a retail chain, 2 shots at dotcom ventures, (tring tring !!! being one of them) a financial services BPO - all 5 within the first 6 years out of campus - and finally ICICI Bank - for over 4 years - my longest stint yet.. and been in 4 different role profiles - managing products, assets, liabilities and currently a CFO role within Rural and Agri Banking... and to think of it - I did not even apply to a banking job at campus!!! thoroughly enjoying my work - no kids yet - also into our 6th house in mumbai - this one we wrote a check on in 2003...
its been an exciting and a crazy decade since we moved out of campus - got married on dec 22 to manisha - completed 10 years of our co-existence - going thru the peaks and troughs of life in mumbai and loving every bit of the journey
started out being a dealer on the stock exchange, moved to set-up a retail chain, 2 shots at dotcom ventures, (tring tring !!! being one of them) a financial services BPO - all 5 within the first 6 years out of campus - and finally ICICI Bank - for over 4 years - my longest stint yet.. and been in 4 different role profiles - managing products, assets, liabilities and currently a CFO role within Rural and Agri Banking... and to think of it - I did not even apply to a banking job at campus!!! thoroughly enjoying my work - no kids yet - also into our 6th house in mumbai - this one we wrote a check on in 2003...
manisha was a fashion designer when we got married - and now is a solicitor practising securities law!!! - with our experiences the belief is only strengthened in - you really do not know what you become... thats been life in a nut-shell...
been around almost every nook and corner of our country, enjoying the natural and the man-made marvels that dot the the landscape... leh, rajasthan and kerala coming out tops of the list, not necessarily in that order... and looking forward to adding more unexplored destinations to the list
We! (birdie would not miss this one) completed the marathon last year... and would like to continue with it hopefully doing the number in cities across the globe; while i caught the shutter bug lately - picking up photography as a hobby and am learning to play the guitar amongst other things - manisha is majorly into painting and honing her vocal chords...
the reunion was an amazing time going back to campus and meeting everyone - thanks kapil, kalpana and atul who organised it and a host of people who pumped in their bit to ensure so many of us turned up - without which the party would have been incomplete...
kudos to Karthik for capturing so well the ethos of the reunion as well as the batch - pity it had to be that quinessential bell curve - like the 2 by 2 matrix - an unstinting reminder of bucketing everything that is life... but guess it is so, in true management style...
its the out-liers that inspire - the few who follow their dreams to the logical end - and hopefully by the next 10 years - we all will be outliers in one mode or the other - finding that one thing special that makes us passionate- cheerio
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