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Hi all,
Its been a long time, almost more than two months since i contributed time towards blog..Does that mean no cinema, no reviews, no trips, nothing significant? No, ofcourse not..Throughout all these days i have been to more cinemas, went to Tanjore to attend to my friend's marriage,but i was not getting time to spend time to write reviews....Does that indicate i am busy these days? No not really!! Sarathy hope you will be happy hearing this. As you always expect me to say i dont have any work and being paid money for almost nothing...and i am working for a government Organisation.. and Gnana i hope you dont have to waste your efforts in informing Sarathy!!:)
I was silent member in blogger reading all other blogs, find out whats interesting going on...
What made me to come back from my normal routine to write blogs now all of a sudden? Is that a cinema or is that a review or is that regarding my trip to Tanjore? Any guesses!
No prizes Assured*.
*conditions apply
Am i going to advertise a product where these days we can see a very limited number of advertisement without "Conditions Apply"...
Indian Son/Daughter at the American Soil
With lot of IT and BPO work being outsourced to India from America, these days number of people going to America from variety of Services and Consulting Company from India is on the rise. But how long is always a question mark...
Right from the school and colleges people tend to develop in themselves an interest in going abroad..that makes them keeping this Onsite Chances a most important criteria while choosing their career option. Even i would say i was one among them, which made me choose TCS when i had offer from Infy. Is that right to have these Onsite Chances as a significant criteria?
Question here comes to my mind who cultivates this interest in the individuals? Do parents play any role in this? Or is this a self interest that comes up by seeing the seniors? I would say it is 50-50..There are people who are not interested in going abroad and consider the nature of work being carried out more important..There are people who are interested in going abroad, but the organisation in which he works has not provided him with such an opportunity...There are people who are at onsite and not really interested in continuing there...
Providing onsite opportunity-Does it have any impact on the attrition in Industry? Yes ofcourse it contributes to a larger extent next to the salary being offered. When i say you have variety of people as mentioned above, why not rotate people and maintain a good balance so that everybody gets a fair chance... thereby significantly bringing down the attrtition rate even..
People outside the IT industry do see nowadays onsite opportunity a way of measuring their performance in Industry. They always put up pressure on people asking them have they not been given onsite thereby creating pressure on Parents as well. These days you can find people like this
Person1: Hey my son is at US. He is being provided stay at a very big hotel and expenses are borne by the company. How about your son?
Person2: My son is at UK..He has been given a car along with very good accomodation. He has been rated high in performance..
(drew inspiration from a conversation at Beasant Nagar Beach)
While having such discussions, dont they ever think their son/daughter is away from them. Ofcourse they do. But then they donot show it in front of others.Slowly we will see a trend whrein almost every parent is left alone here in this country as their son/daughter are at abroad. Is this all for good?
Why do these people give a wrong projections when they have different opinion in their mind?
They all live with Webcams, Google Talks, Yahoo Messengers and phones from Sify iWay..After all that is the only way of communication with their children who are thousands of miles away. Atleast we should appreciate the growth of Internet which has atleast brought these distances smaller by bringing in Chat applictions, webcams....
But is this trend going to come down? I dont see a ray of hope atleast for next few years as IT is on boom and with the introduction of higher caps for H1B Visas, i expect this growth to move exponentially.
What do you all say?

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take the pride in "being the first one to comment on the story"... very true da madev, what you have said in as many words...from the greener side (remember the opposite side is always so), all you get to hear from your parents is "we miss you", "nee eppo varuva?", "unna naan eppo paapen" (now this is a double meaning question, also means "get me too there")...
"thirai kadal odiyum thirivaiyam thedu"... is just one way life... not the only way...
very true.. as any particular thing in life which has +ves and -ves this also has its own set :))
do i sound like a vedanthic hehehe
I really like your write up da dev... Like every soul in this worl the Grass is greener on the other side of the river bank.. I feel more than the pride that the parents claim from saying that their son is in the US or UK, I think it is the peer pressure as well. peer pressure between friends (sons as well as the parents). And ofcourse a way to evaluate yourself.
There is another angle to look into the same aspect - most of the parents dont want to be parted from their wards. but at the same time they want the best for their children. acepted there is a better life style in this country but not as good a life as what we have in our own home country.
THere were so many days the thought in my mind strikes when will i return back home to my land? will I ever return back? Am I going to settle in the US for ever? the answer to this I SERIOUSLY DON'T KNOW.. even though i give this lame excuse that there isnt any good computer security jobs in India...
Super da bittu.
I strongly feel most of your blogs have a sentimental approach towards the subjet you are dealing with.
Vekkatha vittu solren. Naanum thaan onsitekaga aenghinen, alanchen.
"Onsite" oru thadava poganum machi. Not only for panam.
You'll be in a lost world compared to the offshored work. Many decisions will be taken wholly by you.
You can start a sequel for this by "alasing" the project models on which the guy is sent to onsite.
Machi,
Nice!
Person1: Hey my son is at US. He is being provided stay at a very big hotel and expenses are borne by the company. How about your son?
Person2: My son is at UK..He has been given a car along with very good accomodation. He has been rated high in performance..
Above conversation is very true...because of this most of the time I won't discuss anything with my father (except requesting for money ;) :D )...you know parents would be projecting the infor (that I have given) by 1000 times if it is positive one... or they won't discuss about it if it is a negative one...
I had same thought when I was in US, finally I got this...
1) How many times you tried to impress others?
2) Have you ever thought about the kind of people (techie ppl or peers or somegirl or some unknown) that you are trying to impress?
3) In how many different places(scenarios) you tried to impress? (Impressing someone in office is different from impressing someone in beach/hotel/...)
4) What is the motivation behind your actions?
Now ask the same questions by assuming you are the "Person 1"...
Did you get that?
Everyone is trying to impress others who in their circle... Person 1 is trying to impress Person 2 and vice versa who are in same circle
I am trying to impress certain people ... (Please don't ask who are they ;) ) But I am taking different route to impress people... :D
Now think about how many times you attempted to impress people... How many times you succeeded?
(Ayoo question mela questiona...OK...naan appeeteetu...)
-PM
PS: After you became father, let me see how you are talking about your childrens... ;)
machi, konjam overa iruko?
-PM
Dev,
I partially agree with you.Old people definitely feel lonely but if you move back a few years, people wanted to settle down in the US or UK.Now with the IT & BPO jobs coming home, they make short to long trips -Not very long. A few years out of home won't make a big change.I was in Tanjore, Bangalore and now Ireland. You were in Tanjore,Mumbai,Chennai and somewhere.Now the life itself is changing.We cannot settle down in a place.Bangalore/Ireland makes no different to my people as long as I am not in Chennai. Same case with any parent.As said, few parents feel proud to talk that their kids are abroad but not any more.Its now pretty common to travel and its all short trips unlike 'settling down'.With India gearing to be a manufacturing hub,people would always like to come back home.
This is my point of view.
Ya man its true that the pressure is from close frenz who boast abt their life at US after their visit to parents and it creates a sort of pressure for t guy to look out for onsite opportunity...
arun
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