Friends
Yesterday again I was in Mumbai. It was the day when mumbaites had to live without yellow-Black taxis. Taxis were observing strike and hence lot of travelling challenges. Somehow I reached to Nariman Point where we have also started operating since about a week. I entered in the new office and got tremendous positive vibrations. The cabin was opposite to some other buildings. I m writing this to share with you certain memories of past. Just backside to my office building is a building where I had started my second inning of the career. It was May 1992 when I was totally burdened with debt and the practice in jaipur was total failure. It was full of challenges from all the sides and I was forced to restart the job in Mumbai. The CFO of this company which offered me job was very shrewed and fixed the salary @Rs. 7500/- per month. When I landed to Mumbai after closing down office in jaipur he said the salary would be Rs. 4500/- p.m. for next 3 months and would be reviewed only after reviewing my performance. There was no option for me so I joined that in the hope of getting better salary after 3 months. Later when the month end came and I was given salary for part of the month i.e. about 10 days, the calculation of salary slip were shocking. It was based on Rs. 2500/- p.m. I requested to clarify and then told that Rs.1000/- is deducted as deposit fearing that I may leave the job in between and another Rs. 1000/- is kept aside to be paid after one year as bonus etc. Remember in those days salary for a CA of my experience of 7 years,the prevailing rate was Rs. 15000/- p.m. What a great experience that was. During the same time, I remember another incidence. In the nearby building, there was a PCO in the basement which was only option available to talk to family in jaipur. In those days mobiles were not at all heard.Due to some urgency, I had to call back home at Jaipur and the bill of PCO was Rs. 22/-, unfortunately I did not have that much money in the pocket and top of that the challenges were tremendous from job side. I pledged my wrist watch to the PCO with the promise that I would pay his outstanding by tomorrow and take back my watch. He was kind enough to keep the watch and gave credit for a day. Certain memories in life never wash away and always hit your mind. Today I was in the cabin of my own office looking to other buildings and offices. It does not matter from where we are coming but what matters is where we are going now. With this area I have lot of memories attached to my struggling period. God has been kind enough to bless with this opportunity to me. After some meetings came back to Ahmedabad.