When I hear Bengaluru, the first thing that comes to my mind is the dream which I had in chidhoood. My dad used to come to Bengaluru for official trips. I always asked him to take me with him. Never imagined in future I would be settling down to same place.

June 2015 my Engineering got completed and results were out but no job in hand. Had no idea where to search for and where to start with. Like others, I was influenced by my friends. Bengaluru, the software city, was the destination for any Engineer passing out of college. Now comes the difficult situation. My family never wanted me to go far away from home. How should I expect them to send me to Bengaluru? Only way left out, my sweet brother who was studying in Bengaluru. In each and every family, boys are considered daring enough to stay alone outside their hometown. So, my brother was sent to Bengaluru for Engineering.

Somehow my brother led me to Bengaluru. There I landed in Software City, the land of my dreams. I was surprised to find that the dream fairy land I imagined was filled with buildings and vehicles. But that was just the beginning. I stayed for a month in Electronic City. It’s a place where you can find people wearing branded clothes. You also encounter people who do not even know the b in branded. One month in that City made me explore the entire Bangalore. My main aim for entering Software City was job hunting. I realized that whatever I had learned in 4 years of Engineering was a utter waste. If you can show yourself as a master in something, then you have a job in your hand. And a surprise, got a Airtel customer support night shift job with 10k monthly salary. Now my dilemma was this. After learning all these 4 years of Computer Science Engineering, should I join Tech Support? Or, does money matter enough to ignore the other factors? After a big fight between my mind and brain, I finally decided not to join there. That decision turned out to be lucky.

I received my first job offer. It was from a multinational company where I made a bunch of crazy and weird friends. It was again a bad time for me, my grandmother passes away at the same time. During those rituals, I was in locations with no network. I searched here and there to find a proper speed to upload my documents to the HR of the company. And there it goes, I shift to Whitefield specifically BEML Layout where my whole life story exists and continues now.

Then after the IT life went or can say ran more speeder than the traffic moving here in Bengaluru. I traveled from BEML to Kengeri, then to Bellandur. Finally, I settled for a company at my doorstep. It was a roller coaster ride all together. The one word Bengaluru has lot of memories together. We get up to rush to the office. We wait for the weekends to arrive. We meet with a bunch of crazy friends. Then it’s back to the same weekday routine. The days go on.

Bengaluru, whatever the people say there is some charm in this city where people stick to. If you enter Bangalore, it feels like a maze. If you are in the software industry, then welcome to the game that never ends. Just RUN RUN RUN !!!