Success The Turning Point

Author(s): Rajendra Rakhecha
Publisher: Rajendra Rakhecha

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• Finally you have to make your journey alone, leaving everything on planet earth! Mahatma Gandhi had set simple principles, As a part of society we all to observe seven deadly sins and avoid those, understand those deeply and follow
Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity. • Religion without sacrifice.
• Politics without principle. Look at the lives of celebrities; they came, entertained or did the great job, earned money and became old or died! What next? What do you have it finally? Live a life with pride & dignity. There should not be an answer to a question if someone asks what you would like to have differently if you get a chance of one more birth! Live a life; no other life can be better.
1.2.3 Interesting Experience related to switching from Mechanical to Software industry 1. Migrating to Software industry: I was 39 then, working with Virgo, a mechanical valve
manufacturing company and fairly happy. I had 85 balance leaves. A close acquaintance, mentor and guide Mr. Nemichandji Karnavat motivated me to consider working in software industry. I did not know much about software development though have at depth experience in programming in C, FORTRAN, Autolisp, Acad, FEA, etc. I had worked earlier as functional consultant for material management system. I also worked as additional responsibility to Head of Design & Development in capacity of project manager to implement Baan. Organisation was giving the priority to business and invoicing for March end. I had very tough discussion with Chairman leading to decision to do or not to do! Finally BaaN was implemented with nice planning, tracking the run rate of all the activities. We started in April and went live by Sep! We had discussion about positive points that there is no politics in IT industry, people have very positive attitude, and they are focused on job, and sincerely deliver. There have been opportunities to learn a lot and being growing industry it's a good career option to switch and so I had decided to make a switch. I listed the buzz words and met few friends settled in IT. Requested their guidance, to arrange the topics in sequence how do I study, which topic to be studied first. I purchased many books of different technologies like Microsoft and Java, Databases, etc; joined classes of Aptech and Datapro. I used to read first 5 pages of the book to understand the topic and its importance. I designed my own training program as below. I also studied and plan to appear for Sun certification of Java. I used to open the lab and close myself.