So, here is my first post under Venkata in Sankata series. This is about my move to the United States of America, an opportunity a lot of my fellow Indians would have been very happy about. But, this is me, Venkat and i am not sure whether it was a good idea to have accepted this move at all. But anyways...this series of blogs, if i ever write regularly, would be about my life in the "Holy Land" of my fellow country men (well, at least some of them).
The seeds of this move were sown 3 years ago when i moved to my new company with an ambition of moving from delivery management to business development. Last year, the company talked about me realizing my dreams and this year they made my dreams come true. Only my dream had faded and i had forgotten about it. So, when the dream came true, it was more a shock than a pleasant surprise.And what a time to do business development, when the economy of the Holy Land is in shambles and nobody knows when it will recover.
Hey...dont get me wrong here, i am working for the best company that i have ever worked in 11 years of my career and i love working here. And that is the only reason i accepted to move as against rejecting the option when i surely had the choice.
Anyways, one fine morning, half asleep, i found myself in a flight that is supposed to bring me to this Holy Land of Software Engineers. It took me the entire 8.5 hours flight to London to realize that i was actually on my way leaving behind my parents, my dearest friends, my lovely car, Bangalore traffic, RT Kaushik (Asha..should mention him seperately..what says?), Bangalore Times (Times of India) and whatever else i have forgotten to mention. The next thing that i realized was that my flight landed late in Heathrow and i missed my connecting flight in London..
Whew...its tiring to write this...so Sankata will cotinue Venkata, oops no i mean Venkat will continue his Sankata the next post...
Till then...
PS:
The title of the series is flicked from the name of a kannada movie (Venkata in Sankata) which was aptly released just before i left Bangalore..
