5K @ express

The purpose of my blogging has a meaning given at the end...

It is more of a follow-up of last blog as i happened to mention my friend and editor deepu,one thing which i realize and was important and could've made the difference in my life and career.After completing Master's(wow ask what STATISTICS), i still do not know what to say in interviews on those correlations and regressions as my normal curve is always negatively skewed when it comes to statistics as a tool to use,i give a bold answer saying business case outcome need not make statistical sense and have been successful only with American interviewer's as frankness counts.During my first job, my friend mahesh who is doing his Ph.d in US was practising his subjects with part-time classes in an university in BLR , i like teaching but not statistics sadly there was a need and i managed to get thru to teach MBA guys.A start-up university and my first class was "blinking statistics" and i started addressing the students saying - "before getting into the subject i would like you guys to understand that statistics is a tool but not the only tool".First class 1996 Bsc , 1st ever class i remember professor asked what is statistics?? and me who dreamt doing some research in science or in sports media/analyst when asked said "statistics came from a greek word..." and that professor gave an angry look and maintained it for atleast a month and never had an impression on me till i finished Master's.

Well i managed to complete all and earning a decent salary infact better industry package all that but i now feel it just costed that normal curve to be negatively skewed from satisfaction inspite of the positive look on the status and earning and job and comfort.

In 2003 i was still looking for a job and my friend deepu (wasn;t sure if he had joined the leading daily then or was doing a freelancing in PTI or times) naturally a journalist asked my interest to work as sports data person and then improve from there on and he would try to seek an opportunity in chennai @ express and that the package would be only 5K if an option exists and if i get it.But situation that time forced me to go elsewhere and keep getting good jobs,good pay etc but not only the current turmoil day by day i realize -that 5K break would have given made a lot more positive impact and the difference even if i now were to earn 25-30k salary in that field i would;ve been satisfied in the end.While there is no going back and it is past it haunts me now badly. Trying to get more into some actual areas of interest(this was just a particular case in the past) is a goal in pursuit(i cannot list 2-3 different things here)...and this space and network should help gain more confidence and seek some remedy on the 5K@ express loss.But this space here is one way i can improve along with different possiblities i am seeking - the revival period all started with this space......

(it doesn't mean that i am doing my job for the heck of it)