2010 was a very important year in my life. I received my second MS degree, started working full time in a very decent and fairly reputed company, in the process, managed to put a full stop to the PhD question. Whats better is that the company and my role are fairly decent enough to use it as a launch pad for bigger and better things.
Going to the gym regularly used to be my standard new year's resolution that never got fulfilled. Not once. Thankfully, since Nov 6th, I've been working out regularly and am starting to see some results.
I am also done with room mates. Living alone has been quite peaceful and has helped me get my life back on track by giving me the one most important thing in life - a peaceful night's sleep.
It wasn't always this way. The start of the year was sluggish. I spent a fortnight in California living with a friend and looking for a job but to no avail. I came back and rejoined my low paying internship with a hope that perhaps I might get a job sometime or else I can go back home satisfied that I gave it my best shot. To my surprise, I found myself interviewing for another full time job only for it to get converted into an internship.
The offer was tempting and with no end game at sight, it was a lot more money, I wanted to take it up. But I decided to stick with my company hoping that I could convert my internship into a full time position. After a lot of time (5 more months), I finally got my full time job. It was worth the gamble afterall.
Cricket over the summer was nice. I managed to do pretty well and managed to make myself one of the most important members of the team. That was pretty satisfying and has rekindled the hunger to excel within me. That competitive feeling was what led me to finally take work out more seriously.
Overall, it was a slow year but definitely a year positive one. A lot of boxes were checked after almost 1.5 years of not going anywhere in life. In hindsight, it was a year that has set me up really nicely for the future ahead.
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