Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

The above quote brings to the fore the two

significant aspects of being a good manager, one is teamwork and the other is an appetite for facing challenges. And a good team
player requires adaptability and good interpersonal skills. Coming from a background of defense services and growing up in an
environment which was a home for diverse cultures and people, I find myself always comfortable when it comes to mingling with
people and actually creating a good bond with them. I had done my schooling from an Army public school and my graduation in
Chemical engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. I was one of the handfuls of lucky ones who had managed to
secure two core sector jobs from campus recruitments. Ultimately I chose to go the city of Visakhapatnam and join one of the jobs
bagged my me which was a cryogenic manufacturing firm named Ellenbarrie Industral Gases Ltd. Here, the managerial attribute of
adaptability discussed above was evident when I had to come far from north eastern India to the south which has an altogether
different environment, culture and people. The transition of adapting to the new phase of life was smooth and ended in maintaining a
healthy relationship with the people around me. Besides, difficulty in communication and the problem of not getting good and healthy
food has encouraged me to learn gradually the ever important art of cooking and the regional language to an extent at which I can have
simple communications with people around, which could eventually serve my purpose. This was a very good example of the quality of
adaptability and flexibility in me. Even after getting a job in a neighboring state, I had decided to go for the one which was a bit
challenging. My love for challenges and an appetite for risk is also somewhat evident from the long distance bike trips which are on
the range of 1000 kms and also the trips which includes the difficult terrains and the disturbed areas of the north-eastern part of India.
Moreover, I also voluntarily took the added responsibility of being the safety engineer at my work place, hence justifying the
challenge loving attribute in me, an important quality in field of management.
My upbringing in a strict and disciplined military background has shaped my bent of mind accordingly and also the disposition of
mine in and around the work place. Moreover, my personality and attitude was greatly molded by the four years of graduation hostel
life and the job life. The numerous events in the college and interactions with the seniors had helped me developing a matured outlook

towards various aspects of life. The job life has taught me the way to inculcate the habit of working under pressures of finishing jobs
within deadlines, time management, handling seniors, learning office decorum, corporate diplomacy and most importantly the need of
being productive. Moreover, apart from being a production engineer, I was also serving as the safety engineer of my plant. This has
nurtured my inter-personal skills as I had to manage people at different levels, be it the security guard of the plant, a transportation
tank driver or an executive level official. This accounted for a great deal of persuasion to actually get people to listen to me and
produce optimum results. So, on the face of it, doing MBA would provide a formal education that would teach me the aspects of
management in a better way and also the ways of handling corporate situations in an efficient and a systematic manner.
On the other hand, the pursuit for going for MBA started for me one year back when I realized that there is a very less scope for
growth from where I was at that time. Until graduation my aim was to get placed into a good core sector firm and earn a good amount.
And I also was one of the few from my batch who managed to secure a core sector job and was satisfied. But as I completed around a
year and a half or so, I realized that I caught the drift with all the good things the job has to offer to me and there is nothing new left in
it. There is little scope of self betterment from there onwards and the job life turned monotonous. Owing to its static job role in my
present sector, no matter in which firm I switch to, I could see myself holding the same kind of work responsibility even after five
years from then. Money has its own place but besides earning good money, exposing oneself to a competitive and a dynamic
environment is very much necessary to grow, is what I realized at that phase of my life. I had to finally re-assess myself on what kind
of job environment I want for myself and ultimately decided to go for MBA, which I think is a correct and a significant decision that
would shape my future for good. After doing MBA, my immediate goals would be to get a position in a good firm which enables me
to hone myself during the formative years of my management career in a challenging environment and provide me opportunity to
deliver assignments within deadlines showcasing my potentials. Lastly, I believe that by going for this programme, I would be
investing in myself, by virtue of which I can see myself holding a position of responsibility as a chief operating officer in a reputed
firm as one of my probable long term goals, and hence making a good return on investment on myself.