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To start with let me put this infront of all of you. Success in life can be measured in various parameters and in order to get successs you must be in a job that you have passion in. So different people have different interest fields and no one can comment anything about the individual choices one has.I followed the normal course as most young guys follow, 12th and then engineering from a regional but top notch college. Till here it sounds like the most common stories of all times, but the difference was my real passion for engineering and to become a software engineer who earns hell amount of money and is succesful. And I kept on wondering how???I had a huge baggage of burdens and expectations always on my shoulders and failed to deliver only once when I missed to get into IIT by a whisker despite a score. My AIEEE score landed me to this college and I was feeling ashamed of my dream that I was carrying. Only thing I had with me in those 4 years of college was my belief in myself and a girlfriend who had the belief that I can achieve what I dreamt of.I cracked 3 companies during placement but when the offer letter came I was blown away seeing the petty amounts that IT companies were offering. I joined the company offering the most and I can claim that yes it was petty 5lpa that I was drawing. And had at least 400 batchmates with me, I feel like lost and thought of how I can shine in such a crowd.Thanks to that GF (who is ex now) I focused in a different way. For the initial 1 year I considered myself as a student in college who gets money for studying. I made a checklist of what I wanted to achieve in this 1 year(this included being critical resource, client appreciation, awards and recognition, getting into a dynamic and interesting field etc). With that mindset the salary drawn was satisfactory.Meanwhile hard work was on. Extra studies of new technologies after office hours. I was thrown into manual testing project. I never refused but used to keep books in my drawer in order to utilize the time I used to save during work. I used to study while other batchmates preferred lurking around in cafeteria and “enjoying”. To be honest I also wanted to enjoy but I consoled myself saying that right time will come for me to enjoy.I told the management I wanted to be a developer and I can prove my skills if they gave me an internal project to work on. A Dev lead saw that spark fuming and agreed to take me in project once I completed my current testing assignment. I did not leave the focus on current testing assignment and completed the delivery with overall single digit of defect count in all phases of UAT and Production (and we had raised a whopping 382 defects in our testing). I was made unofficial lead and critical resource there.For my performance I was rated with the topmost rating and awarded the topmost award in the first year itself. I felt myself sparkling distinct, but that dream was still distant. But if you have worked hard the destiny will make you achieve what you had in mind. A senior manager saw the performance sheet and called me separately into his cabin. He said he was applying my Visa despite the rule that 3+ years resource only should be allowed to apply. And I should keep it to myself. I nervously shook my head and filled my form with details. Next year I was selected in the H1B list. I could not believe what had happened. Now the wait was on, it was so hard for me to keep that secret to myself. I thanked the almighty, my parents and that special girl who had been with me during every step taken.Meanwhile I also got into User Interface development, as I had requested it in my career aspiration and performed well in the internal project task allocated. I was not able to get a project to travel onsite for an year,killing my H1B visa time period. I started getting demotivated and fussy due to the frustating wait and a bit of politics which was expected as I was too young.Again I focused myself on setting myself up as per industrial standards. I decided to appear in all interviews to check and test my UI skills. In that period of 10 months I cracked around 15 companies starting from TCS to Deloitte and Synechrone. Every time I kept asking for better package and refused to join. Even if I was not selected I worked on the shortcomings and worked harder on those . Till the end I was able to draw 10 lpa offshore and 90–95 USD onsite package which made me feel satisfied. Meanwhile wait was over and my company itself sent me to onsite after an year , I also agreed as I din’t want to leave my first company for the opportunities they had provided to a fresher from college. I was surprised that my role was of a senior and wasn't degraded to the normal roles that others were offered during final processing. I was a senior analyst and when I saw paychecks I saw I was a notch ahead of what other friends (seniors of mine) were fetching from other companies.Currently I am based in Dallas Texas and package converted to offshore is really good. Yes I am happy but not Satisfied. I don't want to get complacent and I am focusing on higher heights. I am upgrading new skill sets,and talked to my manager to give me higher roles and multiple domains to handle. I have been made a lead and I am handling offshore and onsite with guys having thrice as experience as mine. I am too happy with my job profile currently. But I will never be satisfied as the moment I think I am satisfied I will loose my zeal to achieve higher.Meanwhile I am “enjoying” life big time. Parties,clubs ,casinos, long drives and adventure trips. I have a weird fascination list of mine to be ticked as well. I have also kept an aim to improve on other prospects in life. I am a part of college environment club as an alumnus, I talked to all my relatives who never talked to me and also old friends by searching them on FB ( especially those who had speculated a lot about me). I am also planning to write a book to motivate youths who are lost in the sea of multitudes who are just following some distant light at horizon (similar to what I was doing in final year !), I aim to have guest lectures for engineers when I visit India and help them make better decisions in life when they are in career making stage.Life will go on and I will not stop running to take a breath. This professional world is a sea of opportunities and you can dive in deeper and deeper. I hope I will keep on posting new avenues of my life as I keep on going ahead.