Success Story #8

He was one of the brilliant guy from an upper middle class marathi family. He always stood among first five in school. 

He had the same dream most of his peers had. To opt for engineering, get into corporate world, rise in salary and position, have a nice bungalow, get married and lead a peaceful life.

As he was brilliant, had no difficulty in securing admission to the top engineering college of his home town. 

On day one of the campus placement he got selected in a multinational with a fat salary package. 

Then there was a training at Bangalore and finally he started his morning 9 to evening 7 routine at Pune. And lot of fun with friends thereafter till late night. This continued for three consecutive years.

He was assigned a project that involved local collectorate. And thus he came in contact with the DM (collector). He was fascinated to see the way top officers stood in front of the DM and the way top police officers salute him. He saw the crowd outside his office and the grave social injustice.

He also came across the fact that there was a dominance of one particular state in administrative services, DM couldn't even speak proper Marathi.

This led him think why he can not occupy that chair and do better.

Now the quest for that chair was not allowing him to sleep. 

Finally, he started preparing for administrative examination, changed his routine. He would work 9 to 7 in company and thereafter studies and only studies till midnight. He even did not take the overseas one year on-site project opportunity that was offered to him by his manager.

In second attempt he got selected in IAS cadre.

Now he is a Collector of a metro city. Though he works on lesser package than what he was getting in corporate world but  is compensated by job satsfaction.

(Success story #8)

Success is a subjective term. Why not to walk an extra mile?