Saturday, January 9, 2010

A decade already ...

Yes ... Jan 3rd, 2000 ... the day dawned bright and sunny and early. My dad and me were in the best of spirits ... my dad's excitement multiple times more than mine. It was 7:30am and we were already in bus ... our company bus. It was my first day in my first job. Dad came to see my office and make sure his daughter was safe and was going to grow professionally in a great environment.
The induction program had dignitaries come and boost our confidence ... these were people we had seen on TV ... read about them in newspapers ... so it felt just surreal to see them in person. We were in training for the next 3.5 months. That when I met one of my bestest friend.
I still think it was destiny ... since I was a very reserved person, when was very outgoing. I sat in the last row of seats in our induction and she sat in the first row ... we passed out attendance sheet and it happened that she handed out the attendance sheet to me which led us having successive Employee numbers ... in turn leading to sharing the same cube and ending doing the same project. During the training period, we had our own gang ... 4 young women and 4 guys .... the women called themselves the GG gang. Each one of us had a carefully chosen nick name ... after training we all got assigned to various client projects. As luck would have it 3 (including me) from the gang ended in the same project. One from the gang got his Visa and flew to US. The others continued to meet ... but not so often anymore. But the GG gang stuck.
And then I got married and moved to US ... but continued to work for the same company and kept in touch for sometime. But professional assignments and personality changes led to the gang slowly disintegrating. But I continued to be in touch with my miracle friend. Now she is the only one I am in touch with ...
Its been a decade of my professional life and its also been 10 years since I have found a great friend. Here is to many more years of professional success and even more years of friendship ! Cheers !

14 comments:

AverageJane said...

Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of your work life. :) I personally think this decade has been the fastest.. :)

Lakshmi said...

Congratulations. That is a great achievement to have finished 10 years. And to have stayed with same company. It must feel special to have such a life long friend.

utbtkids said...

The way we find best friends, ain't it interesting? Life sure has its schemes.

Swaram said...

Wow! Congratulations .. 10 yrs and a such a dear friend with that :) God bless u both :)

Sands said...

This year is a wonderful 10th anniversary for a special group of friends in my life too. More on that as the actual month comes rolling :) Enjoy your lovely moments and memories and here's wishing you many more!

Mama - Mia said...

congrats!! a landmark indeed!! :)

and such friendships too are so precious!!

cheers!

starry eyed said...

Congrats and wish you all the best for the next ten! And yay for the good friend too!

Guddi said...

My latest definition of a successful life," If you have enough to eat and feed your friends every week, you are successful".
Cheers to years of friendships!

Poppy said...

*wipes away tears from my eyes*
* Continues to bawl*

Need to hug you right now!
And I missed your call - the day you call my two monkeys REFUSE to sleep :(

This weekend? Pucca - will sit by the phone :D

I had completely forgotten about GG - what was the full form anyway? Isn't that attendance form a miracle? I owe so much to how it was passed from front to back :)

The Print Lover said...

Congrats on the 10! And yay to good work friends. (Esp on Monday mornings)

PRIDERA said...

@All : Thanks for all your lovely wishes ! I indeed feel special for having found a true friend.

@poppy : I completely understand dear ... will call up this weekend.

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DDmom said...

Brought back memories from college and the first job. One of my very few close friend also happened at first job/training. We have sort of lost touch.. but even today in an emergency we count on each other. That tells me I should pick up the phone and call. Now!

 

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