My Biggest mistake!!!!!

Time is now 46 minutes past midnight. So in effect the new day has started.But these does not ring anything into my mind now. Nowadays these times are all normal. At least this is what Software Industry has taught me within such a short span of time. When was the last time I had slept before 11...... Well,I will have to think hard on this. If its not a Night Shift I have never been awake at 7:00 AM for a long long time.Its so long that I think this happened nearly 3 months back when I thought of starting Jogging every day.. How I wish I had continued....

These are words of any other newcomer to this industry.They give us lot of money, but in turn rob us of so many precious little moments we had to cherish. Is this life worth leading?I know that every profession has its own difficulties, but are they these worse? I am not just categorising work in my firm. But I think this is applicable to the entire Software Industry as a whole.

I never believed that I could make the best Programmer, nor a master of C,CPP or even for that matter JAVA. In fact I never paid attention to honing my Computer Skills. In fact if you ask me I am basically ignorant on some of the very basics. So when I got selected to a software Industry it was no surprise that I didn't do enough homework on my proposed roles. I just considered it as a means of providing me enough Cash to live. Of course I am getting that now. But I feel a large Chunk of my life has been forcefully taken away from me in return.

During my school and college Life I have given long speeches to my Juniors on the Positives of receiving an IT job offer. But after coming here, really I don't find a satisfaction inside me with all the explanations that I had given at that time. Then an obvious question would be why did I take my Graduate degree in some other technical discipline if I had to do a monotonous Job of a Software Tester?????

I am trying to find an answer to it now.Looking back there are so many things I could have done rightly, to avoid such an embarrassing situation. But as someone has rightly said Past is there for us to correct Our Present and Pave way for a better future.