Nothing Is Parmanent


Now I am fully convinced with the fact that "Nothing is permanent" not even the people or interests of people. I don't know about other people, so I should not talk in general, but this is what I realised about myself. Everything I thought I am interested in or loved to do, is not true anymore. 

Passion: When I was in school, I was fascinated by electronic gadgets and loved to open up working one to see how it works and tried to fix the nonworking one, or at least to check what went wrong. 

Desire: When I reached college, I was more interested in making money, because I hated to ask for money from my parents thinking they don't have enough. So I learned mobile phone repairing by combining my love of electronic gadgets with my desire of making money and started working in that field. and yes, I made good money for that time and 4-5 years went by.

Respect: Slowly I started hating the idea of being mobile repairing guy, or a mobile mechanic for the rest of my life. I started thinking of a white-collar job, where I will get respect + Money. I made my mind to do a course called CCNA, which was related to computer networking and had no major pre-requisite like B.E, B-Tech. I was a commerce graduate without any commerce knowledge because this smart ass was working in a mobile repairing shop during college lectures. 

So I did this computer networking course and started searching for the job, I landed a field job for wireless tower installation, where I was making less money than my mechanic job and was doing a lot of physical hard work, including carrying metal polls to high rise building, drilling the holes to the walls, installing the tower, mounting the outdoor wireless antenna and radios, and connecting wires. 

After 6 months or so in this job, I  realised this is not what I thought to be doing after this course, I may get there but it will take a lot of time to learn the actual stuff senior people were doing in this company. so the solution was to first learn the advanced stuff by reading more and then land directly to a senior post. Once again  I left my job and went to do the next level of this course called CCNP. 

I ended up doing CCIE, the top course in this line, as I got interested along the way of studying CCNP. I cracked a few interviews and landed my first white-collar job with a good package. At this time I was too much in love with this technology and thought I can do this for the rest of my life. 

Status/Social acceptance/peer pressure/Money game:  As this was my first corporate job, where you have to wear formal dress and hang a company batch on your neck, I was feeling privileged, intelligent and respected. Then I was few people leaving the company and telling others how much more they got in another job. Buying stuff like a car, home, fancy mobiles and clothes. I got convinced that I too deserve more money as I am good at what I am doing. 

I also switched a few companies and hiked my package too, but as I was a frugal person, not by choice, but by nature.  I couldn't expend most of my money and ended up buying a few residential properties in Bangalore. 

Saturation or Midlife Crises?  Now I am in my current company for more than 7 years. I lost all my interest in this money-making mindset, and in this computer networking technology too. I found both are never-ending processes and never enough by earning or learning, so I have decided to retire from the job and wait until I am running out of money to pay my bills or get interested in something else which will be so excited that I couldn't resist myself doing. 

I am 40 years bold thinking, if I have grown up too much that I do not care about money, status, what people think about me, or it's just something people call "Midlife Crises"?

Well, I am not in hurry to get the answer, rather I prefer answers to find me. Until then I will be sitting on the sand, listening to some music, reading some books, or maybe trying to learn meditation. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Wealth is created not by money, but by mindset

Image
M ost of us claim to want to be rich, but in reality, we don’t. We merely desire money to spend on our desires and fulfil our wants, only to lose it again. Essentially, we want to appear and feel wealthy rather than actually be rich. Being money-rich means having a substantial amount of money available without the need to spend it. How can one become wealthy if they continue earning and spending the same amount, resulting in a zero bank balance? If asked what they would do with a one-crore rupee, people would list their desired purchases, such as a car, a flat, a mobile phone, and jewellery. However, no one would say they would do nothing with the money because they don’t need to spend it. In contrast, the second type of person would be one-crore rupee richer than the first because the first person has already spent all their money on their desired purchases, leaving their bank balance at zero. Nevertheless, the second person still has one-crore rupee. Now, if the person who stil...
Read more

It's Rich People's Game

Image
  I nvesting, Thinking, Reading, Meditating and  Leisure  are activities that are often associated with wealth and privilege. While money is certainly a form of wealth, true richness lies in time and mental well-being. It’s important to distinguish between "Richness" and merely having a lot of money. Time-rich and mind-rich individuals are often more valuable than those who are solely focused on financial gain. A mind-rich person can easily generate money and time, while a time-rich person can easily acquire money and a rich mind if they choose to. This is because time-rich individuals can utilise their time effectively by working hard and reading mindfully. This concept is similar to the power, sex, and money triad that has dominated the world for centuries and is likely to continue doing so. Whoever possesses one of these elements can often easily obtain the other two. Sex has historically been used to control power and money, money has been used to buy sex and po...
Read more

It's a Short Life

Image
If you’re already old enough like me, then you’re left with approximately seven thousand days of your life. Why I am saying this? Let’s say an average active human life is 60 years when he will be able to walk, run, recover from illness quickly, or enjoy outdoor activities. And now you do the math.  60 years are 21900 days, 40 years are 14600 days, and 20 years are just 7300 days to live an active life. That too when we are not dying by any illness or accident before time. Life year  day per year total days active life 60 365 21900 expnded 40 365 14600 balance 20 365 7300 Isn't it surprising to know that everybody got an average of 21900 days to live on?  If we talk in terms of money then 21900 rupees feels very less and 7300 is nothing. I must expend every rupee of my life carefully because I am already 40 now. 😄
Read more