Vijay Basrur

New Beginnings

New Beginings are always very exciting. There’s a lot of hope and dreams in the air and as time goes by the challenge is to keep those dreams alive. and more so if its related to a new job.

My career moves have been very non traditional since I love working with startups. My Mom usually gets upset trying to understand what the new company does and when I say its a startup her only point is usually will your salary come on time?

I am going on board a startup once again next week and I am really excited. This is the 4th startup I will be working for. Hopefully there will be a time soon where I can kick off my own startup. But this job is coming very close to it.

Times they are changing!

Man Friday

Robinson Crusoe couldn’t do what he did without his Man Friday. And he sure owes him a lot. Hopefully Friday also had a good time working with Crusoe.

Its a relationship you see so much in workplaces today. Some folks call it the Boss – Subordinate relationship, some folks say Mentor – Mentee. Whatever it is and in whichever form, I think in these days as much as the Friday’s have to look out for their Crusoes, the Crusoes also have to take care of their Fridays. Else it ain’t working for either.

Thankfully I’ve had a Man Friday since the past 8 years and its been wonderful having him around. Gishore started working under me as a network engineer and he has bloomed into a role where he heads the entire data center infrastructure at a large Internet company. We’ve had some great times together and I attribute a lot of my success to him since he took on pretty much any task I handed him and did a great job of it.

Our professional relationship is taking a break since I am moving to a new job where I don’t think I can absorb him (I would have really loved to) and I think I am really going to miss him. He is as good as a younger brother now.

This is one professional relationship I treasure the most and I am glad its with my Man Friday.

Thanks for everything Gishore!