How I almost ended up being a web developer

Blog X of Thirty Days – Thirty Blogs series

This one is as real as it gets of all the “How I almost ended up being a..” blogs and would come as a big revelation to my friends. Back in India, while I was in NSIT first year (2001), I had got a so-called scholarship to attend a NIIT course on various web and software technologies. While I enjoyed programming and web development as a hobby, never could I have imagined that seven years later the same knowledge would help me offset my academic/living costs as a part time student worker and later as a graduate assistant at TAMU. But things got even more interesting in May 2009 when after finding it difficult to find an internship, I gave a serious thought about opportunities in this new direction. I already had a patchwork resume (obsolete now) that I had used for campus jobs.

Initially, I did not put my full force behind this effort and hence was surprised to see interest from a CA startup (perhaps because they did not know what they were looking for). Soon, I seriously pursued an opportunity at a local portal which called me in for an interview (yes, right in Bryan). Few web programming questions and a personal presentation later, I was offered the position of a summer intern. Things were all looking upwards until I gave the whole matter a rethink and decided that now was not perhaps the right moment to enter this new arena.

For all that we know, I might one day end up switching lines and writing a “How I almost ended up being a hardware designer” blog but till then..