Sometimes I wonder how I have managed to work in the hi-tech field for such a long time. Its not that I am not capable of understanding the nitty-gritties of these software technologies. But basically I was a person who was a bit averse of technologies. You may say its because of the socio-economic background that I had in the childhood or the academic atmosphere I had gone through during childhood. Although I was pretty good in science and mathematics (maths being my favorite subject), but when it comes to the applied science I was very ordinary at it.
Therefore, when I entered the engineering college I was a bit amazed, rather open-mouthed. It was not easy to understand the Electronics & TeleComm subjects from practical point of view. I picked up Engineering Maths (be it Laplace transformation, or Fourier transformation or FFT or convolution theorem or matrix algebra or vector algebra or complex algebra) very nicely but it was difficult for me to handle all those bread-boards and CROs in the lab.
These days when I understand WiFi security protocol or when I go through the RFCs of some advanced Telecomm technologies, I wonder how I managed the engineering degree even without knowing the difference between a GSM phone and a chordless phone. These days I wonder about what I thought when I first came to know about the term “computer virus” during a discussion with one of my fellow classmates. You won’t believe that in our college we had a computer lab having air conditioned atmosphere and soft carpets and I used to think that all these are there to protect the computers from viruses.
And I used to crack a joke on my telecommunication engineering degree
That I have become a telecommunication engineer without even making a single phone call.
You won't believe when telecommunication revolution didn't happen in Bharat, I used to become very nervous of thinking how to hold the dabba phone after picking up from the cradle - which side is for the speech and which one for the ears.
You guys can laugh me out, but I am sure many people of Bharat might have faced the same dillema.
Now I really wonder how I had managed without Google. Probably this is Life. It goes on like this…
