As a kid growing up, there was a part of that believed that a job involving travel to different places all year round would be the coolest thing. Well, years on, I am currently living this life and my dear past me, remember that little part of you that was yelling from far back that this would suck. Guess what, he was sort of right. Let me elaborate, but before that let me recap my 2023:
Jan - Feb - Gurgaon with travel to my sister's place and back; don't forget long distance cycling, especially to the remote hill outside of Gurgaon near Faridabad without informing anyone that was dangerous as hell and I had zero cellphone service.
Feb - May - Kolkata with a trip to Gurgaon for Convocation. Pretty difficult to adapt from a million miles an hour pace that is MBA to the waiting game that is the lull before joining a job. Add to this a turbulent personal headspace with my inability to keep my calm and not get angry and lose my cool. Add to this a job offer that took up a lot of time in preparation and abruptly vanished.
June - July - Mumbai - Grant Road with evening travel to Vashi. Pretty much the hotel stay with the sweetest view ever. Surrounded by skyscrapers, Krishna Palace Hotel has pretty much the most stonking views of the luxury life in Mumbai. There was a certain calm that I felt having a room with a view of the ocean, the entire south Mumbai landscape as well as the night sky littered with stars.
August - Mumbai - Gurgaon - Sikkim/ Rangpo - Gangtok - Kolkata - Rangpo and then Mumbai- The factory visit was pretty spectacular in terms of the view it provided and entirely polar opposite in terms of the work level satisfaction. The job sucked pretty bad, but since my board of directors kept reminding me that this is supposed to be a training exercise and pointless by definition.
September - Mumbai and Navi Mumbai - Finding a place and furnishing it exercise- Andheri - The year long search for a suitable place was going horribly wrong before a stroke of luck and poetic turn of events where I walked into the broker's shop I joked about last year during internship as the one that would help me find a place. How funny it is that I ended up finding a place to stay in the same locality as my internship period. What's even luckier is that the place is stonkingly clean, the society pretty decent and location pretty much a stone's throw away from the bus stop and the airport.
October - IB Stint - In 10 days - Nasik - Aurangabad - Pune - Vishakhapatnam - Chennai - Pondicherry - Back to Mumbai
- Also met a person that was special to me who ended up saying goodbye even though her eyes didn't want to. I don't think I will be getting over her anytime soon and damn dude, who could have thunk it that a person of her league would ever be interested in a shitter like me. She ended it, but she left me broken in a million pieces. I don't resent it, but it definitely hurts.
November - Domain Stint - In 10 days again - Ahmednagar - Jalna - Beed - Mumbai - Varansi - Gorakhpur - Azamgarh - Jaunpur - Varanasi - Mirzapur - Varansi Dev diwali - Mumbai
That was pretty crazy, so much so that in between I did need to recharge and slow down but I did get through it. Sadly, my bosses didn't think that the survey exercise, which was pointless in the first place was done to the required extent.
December - Survey part 2 - In 4 days - Mumbai - Ahmednagar - Beed - Solapur - Back to Mumbai
Mumbai to Kolkata and Back
December - Visiting Home - Kolkata and back - Not before messing up my flight and having to pay an exorbitant amount last minute for the mess up. Plus having little to no patience when it comes to my home situation. Forgetting that there is a reality that I had to live with for a while and nuking a situation doesn't get anything done. In the end, people cannot be forced to listen to what I would consider facts, just because I am uncomfortable in dealing with different people and their beliefs.
That's a lot of travel Alice although I can guarantee that I have not reached anywhere in life or made any real progress!
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