Today I read something on net and this made me think more on the fact i had been thinking day in and day out or every time I realize I am in US . Why every software engineer's dream destination is US? Is it money/innovation/exposure/opportunities/knowledge ?
I guess I wanted to land in US bcoz every SE around me was. This was quite similar to fact that I study Engineering bcoz everyone around me was and then walked into an IT company without realizing if it was exactly what I want to do again bcoz evryone around me was.
We Indians usually believe in astrology (science of planets and their positions ). It is believed what we are destined to do is guided by astrology. This means what I am destined to do is guided by the fact at what place and which date and time of day I was born.
Now I guess almost 30 of the students in my class of 60 landed up in US as sotware engineers. Does this mean 30 of us who were born in different places on different time and dates had same destiny ?
Now lets leave that question for astrologers to answer.
I was figuring here why did I and many alike came to US ?
One answer is So that we can understand how powerful is US dollar with respective to INR. As everytime i spend US dollar i immediatelly convert it in INR and item which was for just 1 or 2 dollar few seconds ago seemed to be of 100 INR to me poor soul !!!
But that was for few weeks now i know what is the power of US dollar. And i want to save that as much as I can. Why? Because money is the greates power of all :-)
But this is very small a cause. I can earn as much as I earn here in INDIA too when i return back after 2 years or so.
Now then what will cause me to stay here for more ?? The new projects i had started working on were very exciting here in US then what they were back in INDIA. Facing client daily, answering difficuklt questions, understanding the domain is much more easy. I am working on something new everyday. But now its past one year and now there is no more challenge/knowledge.
Now what ?? Hmm Back in INDIA infrastructure was so bad. Rain in India means complete curfew with security of water guards(pun itended) on roads. Poor public transport Terror attacks