It was yesterday that my salary review has been done in Credit Suisse. Thats when I realized that its been a year working here. Last year Oct 21st I started my tenure in Credit Suisse. So what did I achieve all this year? Did I learn something new? Did I earn a great name at office? Did I enjoy working at this place?
Here goes my tenure details. Immediately after joining CS(Credit Suisse), I went back to India within 15 days to attend Dolly's Marriage and Vijay & Jitna's marriage. I came back and had no work at office for the next few months. I was just passing time reading Rediff.com and Cricinfo.com. Later in May I again went to India for a North India trip. Thats when I interest in travel has come up.
I started traveling since June. I went to Vietnam Twice (HCMC-1, HCMC-2, Still have to update about the Hanoi & Halong Bay trip), Malaysia Twice (KL-1, KL-2, KL-3, KL-4, KL-5, Genting, Melacca), Thailand once (Phuket-1, Phuket-2, Phuket-3, Phuket-4, Phuket-5), Indonesia once and two surprise visits to India as well. I always had this so called free time here. I downloaded hundreds of movies. Locally I have visited so many places. Made so many new friends. Met old friends who came to Singapore. So my whole year I enjoyed traveling, watching loads and loads of movies, Having fun with friends and going home now and then.
Coming to work, I haven't learned anything new in Business Objects. I have been working on an old version of it. Recently after upgrading to the latest version I have been feeling good about the work. Its just a month ago that my work has started seriously. Now the things are a bit hectic. I have learned some facts about the queries and all. When I did not have work I always wanted to do my certifications and stuff. But this did not happen.
Other than work and travelling and having fun I have learned some photography on my new camera Sony A350. Now all my trips would be accompanied with my camera. Need to learn lot more tactics and need to expertise in many areas of photography. Hope this new year of mine in CS will bring me some new challenges and some new things to learn and finish off my certifications. May god bless me and All the best to me :-).
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4 comments:
Can you name the tools out there in the Market? similar to Cognos ?
All of them.
Might take some research.
Nice that you did't get bogged down with the 'home to office', 'office to home' routine. Very few from south India would explore a new place like the way you have done. I think you juiced out every bit out of the last one year. Very cool.
Having said that, as one of my buddies states ' make it better when the going is good' with respect to HEALTH, but I think also applies to taking our work skills forward when there is no pressure at work and ample amount of leisure.
It gives a very good feeling when I look back and see how I prepared and passed the below 3 certifications using the 2 hour up and down time ,while travelling to and from work every day for a period of 6 months, during late 2001 and early 2002.
1. Oracle 8i Database Administration.
2. Oracle Developer certification for Oracle developer suite rel2.
3. Oracle 6i Internet application developer.
Yes, I failed in a similar effort to get the fourth certification in 2004/2005 i.e. Oracle 9ias application server admin. But the preparation gave me a lot of knowledge of Oracle application server.
As for the year 2008, I picked up Cognos 8 skills :), and substantial relevant business knowledge in the domain ( Energy Trading ).
Looking at Energy Risk Analyst certification offered by GARP ( Global Association of Risk Professionals) as a possible goal for 2009. On the technical side, my curiosity of knowing more of the humble EXCEL is increasing every day.
Keep the 'Mr.Cool' thing going :)
"Having said that, as one of my buddies states ' make it better when the going is good' with respect to HEALTH, but I think also applies to taking our work skills forward when there is no pressure at work and ample amount of leisure."
I accept with what you have said. But I couldn't manage time for travel friends family and studies. This shouldn't be an excuse but I have never been that serious about the career so things have slipped away. Let me see when I will be serious about my career and try learning newer things hehe.
"Can you name the tools out there in the Market? similar to Cognos? "
If you are looking for the reporting tools in BI field then below are some of them:
Hyperion
Business Objects
Brio
Micro Strategy
Oracle Report Net
Actuate
This did not involve any research :-). Asking the right things to right people would do the magic :-).
How about Abinitio, Informatica, Oracle Datawarehouse Builder ?
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