There Is Always A New Beginning Age is never a factor when it comes to starting something afresh

I was the first one to get placed from my college through campus recruitment, and that too at the world’s third best organization to work for. As you all may guess, I was on cloud nine; as were my parents, friends and so was the person in-charge of the college placement, as this would have a good impact on the college reputation.

Life just seemed to have changed for me overnight.

From that day forth, everyone in the college seemed to know me. Whenever I used to go to wish luck to my friends before any Company’s Aptitude test, everyone used to tease me to not take the test and let them get a chance to get placed instead. I would have to explain that I was just there to wish luck and nothing more.

I was looked upon as the luckiest girl whose life was set for a lifetime. Without doubt, I felt the same that time. It was a dream come true and I couldn’t be more grateful for it.

Life just seemed so perfect.

Soon, it was my first day at the Company and I fell in love with it at the very first sight. The office was so huge and so beautiful. I had already decided to work at this company for my entire life on the first day itself — that is how impressed I was with it.

Everything just seemed like a fairy-tale.

The first two years just flew by at a blink of an eye. But, unfortunately, then started the office politics. I, being very new to this world, couldn’t take it for long. After few more months of trying to adjust, I decided this wasn’t what I wanted for life. Finally, I resigned from what I thought was my dream job, without any other offer at hand.

All at once I was jobless.

I started hunting for another job, but to my horror, I realized that it wasn’t that easy to get a decent job. I was looking for a job on the same technology I had worked on in the previous organization, but I found out that there weren’t many opportunities on the same.

I had also forwarded my CV to all my college friends so that they could refer me for any openings in the companies they were working in. Days passed onto months and slowly it was almost a year since I had resigned from my first job.

I faced countless rejections during this time and was on the verge of giving up.

Just then, one night, one of my college friends messaged me to inform that there was an opening at his company, but it was for fresher level and the salary was very basic.

Also, the technology that I would have to work on wouldn’t be the same, but they would provide training. It would be like starting afresh. Since, I had given up all hopes of landing a job at all, I immediately informed him I was very interested, without even giving it another thought, and thanked him profoundly.

The interview process started the very next day, and by God’s grace, I got selected for the same. I was to move to another city for 5 months during which period we would be given training on a new technology, and then, based on the requirement, we would be posted to any of their offices, which could be in any city in the entire country.

Since, I didn’t have any other option, I took up this opportunity that was presented to me at the time when I was almost about to give up. Hence, this was the starting of my ‘second’ new beginning, that too at a completely new place and between completely unknown people.

I had made up my heart; I would give this job all that it takes.

I paid attention during the trainings, and during the free time that I got, I enjoyed my life with my new colleagues.

The city being on the coastal region, had loads of opportunities for weekend getaways. So, during weekends, we would plan short trips around the city and its adjoining places. These short trips helped us to re-energize our minds and we made friends those were to keep for a lifetime.

Soon, the 5 months came to an end, and we were to give tests on all the trainings that we had received. I did quite well and was awarded for being the overall topper of the batch.

Soon, I was placed at a different city with few more of my colleagues.

It was just a week that I had started working at this new office when, my marriage got fixed and was to take place just after 2 months. On top of that, after marriage I was to relocate to another city — where my husband was located.

Though I was happy for my marriage, it pained me to think of the fact that I would have to give up the job that I had worked so hard for in these last 5 months and had come to love it.

I knew that after marriage, it wouldn’t be possible to find a job on the current technology that I was working on, since I just had the training to talk about and no real work experience. It was clear to me that my married life was going to mark yet another new beginning for me.

Soon I got married, and the initial few months just flew by in a blurry train of events. This time, I wasn’t even much keen on starting my career once again from the very beginning, when I already had around 3 years of work experience.

Above all, I was scared; scared if I would again be able to find a job of my liking, scared of again joining as a fresher where the other fresher’s would be much younger (and maybe smarter) than me, scared of failure.

It had already been 6 months to my marriage, and I decided to stay as a housewife and give up my career for good, when my husband strongly encouraged me to do any crash-course of my interest that would help me in getting a job.

It was the little push I needed at that moment. After a lot of research, and since I have always had interest in coding, I decided to do a certification course on Android.

Once that was over, I, once again, started my job hunt for a fresher’s profile. After a plentiful of rejections, I finally got an offer from a small start-up.

When I say small, I feel I should mention that if I decided to join it, I would be the only employee in it, and the pay was obviously very minimal since they were not a funded start-up till then.

I heard about the project idea that the owner had, and it somehow interested me. I knew I would get to learn a lot and I guess that is what made me take up the offer.

Since then, I guess I took several right choices at the right time by God’s grace, and looking back, I feel I am exactly where I was meant to be.

Though till date I have had several new beginnings, I feel what helped me was that I did go ahead with each one of them (of course with lots of encouragement and support from my family and friends, and above all, the Almighty). Had I been scared and given up, I would never have been able to achieve my dream.

Though there are several people younger than me who have achieved a lot more than I have, in some companies I have even had team leads who had lesser total years of experience than I did, but everyone’s path is different, right?

Each one of us has led a different life and has a different story, and we should aim at doing the best we can with our life, without comparing it with others.

We shouldn’t hesitate to take up any good opportunities that life gives us. If we can be sure that we have giving in our best in life, best of our capabilities, then we should be content with what we have achieved and pat our backs and say, “Well Done”.

Above all, always remember, it is never too late for a New Beginning.

One good quote that I try to live by, goes as follows: