Another Day in Paradise 
Saturday, October 6, 2007, 04:43 AM
Posted by Administrator
One of the many challenges on this assignment has been the lack of familiarity with anything in India. A nice break from the 4 month realities of my cultural submersion has been the US associates traveling over to perform knowledge transfer. I’ve met many people whose names I’ve known for years but never had the opportunity to meet in person. New friends like Jeff Richardson & David Johnson have made the trip a lot easier. These short 1-2 week trips were expected to become more frequent as the year and our assignments started to wind down. Unfortunately, we received news today that the international travel budget has been eliminated for the 4th quarter of 2007.

Today Mike and I planned to meet one of the mainframe engineers traveling for knowledge transfer and show him around the city. It’s a 3 day weekend as you know and we really need the break from our jobs and the reality of our situation. Again, unfortunately, it looks like this trip has been impacted by the budget so here I am again, in my room, feeling like my mind and body are rotting away for 2 more months. Free time is a valuable commodity when on this type of assignment and as you can tell, my frustration related to this decision is obvious. I think the isolation from all things familiar and the lack of ability to travel or experience things outside of Hyderabad is the hardest part. We had planned to travel around India, see various cities and aspects of the Indian culture but our work schedule and these trips have kept us square in Hyderabad. As we play host to our guests and deliver our own form of knowledge transfer, we at least get a break from the monotony and vicariously re-live our first weeks here.

I’m a bit down today about the decision and am wondering what the last 50 days of my journey will be like. Well, I guess, stay tuned and find out!


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