This blog is about how an individual ventured to leave a well settled and secure but highly unproductive and suppressing workplace at the age of 39 and persisted against several odds to keep progressing.
The blog is to be read from the earliest post and move on to the latest as the events are given chronologically. The aim of the writer is to reach aspiring youngsters to apprise them of the possible difficulties and hurdles one must be prepared to face and handle without losing heart. The problems faced are not unsurmountable or unique in the sense that similar problems of greater or lesser intensity might have been felt by many readers of these entries.
The blog starts from the time I boarded the plane at Chennai to go for higher studies at Northwestern University on December 26, 1976. I have not given the exact circumstances and the cumulative effect of developments up to that point which made me take that decision. Suffice to say that with what I was blessed with in terms of location, security of job and a family with two children, I still took the decision to go to a foreign land with no information, no connection and no financial support.
I landed in Chicago on one of the worst winter nights with $80 in my wallet. I lost my wallet which contained most of it but for some changes in my pocket the day after I landed. Thus starts the story. I have gone through several job changes including two years of unemployment but ultimately reached Professorship in a University.
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