Chapter Chennai Closed !!

It all started on 29th May, 2009 when I got a call from my manager in Bangalore telling me that there was a requirement in Hyderabad although it was not for a US client and whether I would be interested in taking it up? How could I miss a chance to come back to Hyderabad (my hometown, my family, my friends). I instantly accepted the offer and asked him to do the needful. Haah... but since it was a Friday no discussion, nothing would be on until Monday (1st June, 2009). Well it always happens with me that I get a call informing me that I am being referred to some project and it is always on a Friday and I have to always wait until Monday. I know how I spend my weekends thinking and preparing for the discussion and this time it was the most important interview/discussion I was about to face because if I cleared through I would land up in my hometown and that too with a project.

Somehow the weekend passed by and as I was eagerly waiting for the call for discussion at the same moment I was a bit tensed also. Well as awaited and expected I did get a call on Monday but was from the consultant of the project and she ended up asking me about my work experience and telling me that I will get a call from the concerned Project Manager for a technical discussion. I did get a call from the Project Manager but I had to wait for 24 hours since he had called up only on the next day and that too after reminding the consultant that I haven't received any calls yet. I must say it was a call (that too an interview call within the organization) I have been looking forward to, afterall as said if everything went fine it would land me in Hyderabad. The Project Manager interviewd me in ETL tool Informatica and BO and the inerview lasted for an hour. Post the technical discussion the Project Manager told me that the Delivery Manager would have a discussion with me very soon and there would also be a Client interview scheduled but not in the same week and in the next week. Now this is again called luck. I already had waited for a long time I felt and 1 more week? It seemed as if the road to Hyderabad was not so easy as I was expecting. The next day (2nd June, 2009) I got a call from the Delivery Manager in the evening and he discussed about the role I would be playing in the project and what were the expectations from me. As per the discussion with the Delivery Manager it seemed as if 1 more week and I shall be in Hyderabad.

Days passed by and it was getting tougher and tougher to survive in Chennai with the thought that made me feel really happy (I will be going to Hyderabad very soon). After a long wait and repeated trouble (actually not trouble) to my manager the date for the Client interview was fixed and it was after a complete 20 days of the interview that the Projet Manager had taken and 25 days after I was actually referred for the project. Finally the D Day arrived and I was really tensed and as well excited as this discussion/interview with the client would bring change into my life. The Client interview went on fine as per me although I was bowled over completely by his very first question itself but then I regained and picked it from there and ended up quite satisfactorily.

25th June, 2009: The day when I can say the most happiest moment of life occured until now, at 12:05 PM I got an email from the Consultant who had called me on the very first day for the requirement stating that the Client had given a go ahead for my on-boarding into the project and that I was supposed to report in Hyderabad starting the next week. I could hardly believe what I read in that email and kept reading the email for no. of times over the next few days. I was all geared up to come back to Hyderabad and did not want to waste any time and that is what I did, I took the next day (Friday - 26-June-2009) bus and reached Hyderabad on Saturday (27-June-2009) morning. As I reached Hyderabad the only words I had was "Chapter Chennai Closed"