NJ joined his first company 6 months ago. At 22 years of age, such a brilliant career start. 2001 was very good year for IT companies. Still, he is. He used to spend a lot of time in learning about technology in that he was trained in IT in his company for person like NJ, who was technology lover. During travel in public transportation and any time when he had any moment, he used to think and learn/study about technologies. One day, all of a sudden, CEO of his company came in to visit his branch office in that NJ was appointed. CEO invited a big meeting and announced bad news: Sorry friends. The market is so bad we can’t survive. This branch will be closed. NJ was thrashed after hearing this news. That was the time in 2001 in India when many people lost their job in IT due to the recession. NJ had many friends who were laid off from different companies. Some were employed, but with fear of losing job any day.
NJ spent a lot of time in understanding the situation: what went wrong. He figured it out that it was not a fault of technology, it was just a bad market situation. He decided to fight back and not to give up. He started studying more in the depth of technology and applied for many jobs. He was getting rejected and was hardly getting any interview calls due to bad market and due to his lack of enough experience in his field. He purchased a red diary in that he started noting down about his failures and what to learn from it to improve. He failed, noted, improved, again failed, noted, and improved. This happened many many times. He almost Decided to distribute his resume like a newspaper to many companies, but something unusual happened in an interview.
The interviewer asked: How do you know so much about this problem I described?
NJ smiled a little and said: Sir, a similar problem is described at page 116, on left side of the book, by Ed Roman, 2nd edition, published by Wiley edition. There is a diagram that took three-fourth of that page. The interviewer was more than impressed and NJ was hired.
NJ did not give up. It helped him getting the job again. He survived well in 2007 recession as well.
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