Wow, time flies, its being a long time that I have actually written something..
Few decisions change your life entirely; joining Barclay's was one of them for me!!
I joined Barclays in mid-2008 when bank was settling down in India, and was amongst the first few hundreds. Having worked with service industry for more the 6 years intention was to see the other side of the world, being a client…
8 years of journey with Barclays was fantastic with loads of learning. I was the first person in Windows AD team (now oldest after John Wallis left) and I really feel proud the way this team has shaped up over the years and become landmark in technology arm of the bank.
I am lucky enough that I am always encircled with some of the great people in the industry and especially within Barclays.
I have seen lots of swings in these years and the transformation of this team into a capability is commendable. I always admire incredible passion, hard work and contribution in changing the Mortgages landscape across the bank.
I won’t drone on at the necessary length about how great an experience it has been, you all have your own special memories, I am sure.
Life keeps us so engrossed in our daily ventures that it hard to do justice to all roles we play in life. As far as I am concerned yeah… multiple; a son, a father and yes a husband…
Day begins and ends up in corporate world as they say but yes home is place where I live another world. I make tea early morning that’s the only thing I am allowed, coz with respect to cooking I make a mess and am requested not to make, but yes jokes apart I love eating( cooking is way behind).
I come from a Maharashtrian family from Konkan. My father, a motor mechanic by profession but love towards agriculture made him a homemaker and bread earner both as I never saw my dad going to office but to farms doing all the hard work.
My childhood was fun as I was bought up in village where competition was not like we have today. Studying well was the only criteria. But my mother always dreamt that her children should always be best, and hold a respectable position in society so I’ve had a lot of pastings from her if I had not studied. And that’s how I became an engineer. As I struggled to what I
am today life has shown me lot of ups and downs but yes so far the journey has been good.
In my school time I use to do commentary for cricket matches and sometimes thought of making a career in it, but then I realized Harsha Bhogle and Richie Benaud had already taken away this job, left with no choice in this cruel world doing IT Project management.
I believe the ultimate end of education is to find a good life partner, I found the same in Prachi, a lawyer by profession and backbone of my family. It was my dream to marry non IT girl to have peaceful life outside office as I have seen few of my friends (IT couple) talking QC ids and MIMs instead of enjoying life on weekends.
The legacy of IT has rooted in “ Gore’s” next generation as my son Varad a 7 year old, a computer savvy kid, learning Java and designing his first mobile app (will be on play store end of this year) …its Java vs dot net war at my home - after all I am still loyal to Microsoft .
My second kid, Ojas 18 months old also following the same track, now he knows how to open You Tube and play his nursery rhymes, you can now imagine how my weekend goes managing unavoidable
Children teach you so many things; my elder son always pampers me ( yeah other way round in my house); when he is happy or I have achieved any award or I am angry with him or be it my birthday there’s always a card on my table at home with lot of expressions. I realized its means a lot when we send “Thank you “card to someone, be it in office or outside, isn’t it?
My hobbies make me travel, read books and debate on current affairs (mainly politics) and I always believe excellence is a series of hard work.
I think this is enough for an opening blog, will keep on unfolding secrets of MAD house in the second edition!
P.s . I haven’t pasted family snap expecting you all visit my FB page and hit like, trust I keep on posting creative stuff there as well.
World is simple place to live and we humans make it complicated, snap below is a classic (guess the location??)
Happy Weekend,
Disclaimer : Being an engineer and having a tendency to get things done at last minute, this blog was jotted only few hours before it rolled out, so please excuse on free flowing format and typos.
Few decisions change your life entirely; joining Barclay's was one of them for me!!
I joined Barclays in mid-2008 when bank was settling down in India, and was amongst the first few hundreds. Having worked with service industry for more the 6 years intention was to see the other side of the world, being a client…
8 years of journey with Barclays was fantastic with loads of learning. I was the first person in Windows AD team (now oldest after John Wallis left) and I really feel proud the way this team has shaped up over the years and become landmark in technology arm of the bank.
I am lucky enough that I am always encircled with some of the great people in the industry and especially within Barclays.
I have seen lots of swings in these years and the transformation of this team into a capability is commendable. I always admire incredible passion, hard work and contribution in changing the Mortgages landscape across the bank.
I won’t drone on at the necessary length about how great an experience it has been, you all have your own special memories, I am sure.
Life keeps us so engrossed in our daily ventures that it hard to do justice to all roles we play in life. As far as I am concerned yeah… multiple; a son, a father and yes a husband…
Day begins and ends up in corporate world as they say but yes home is place where I live another world. I make tea early morning that’s the only thing I am allowed, coz with respect to cooking I make a mess and am requested not to make, but yes jokes apart I love eating( cooking is way behind).
I come from a Maharashtrian family from Konkan. My father, a motor mechanic by profession but love towards agriculture made him a homemaker and bread earner both as I never saw my dad going to office but to farms doing all the hard work.
My childhood was fun as I was bought up in village where competition was not like we have today. Studying well was the only criteria. But my mother always dreamt that her children should always be best, and hold a respectable position in society so I’ve had a lot of pastings from her if I had not studied. And that’s how I became an engineer. As I struggled to what I
am today life has shown me lot of ups and downs but yes so far the journey has been good.
In my school time I use to do commentary for cricket matches and sometimes thought of making a career in it, but then I realized Harsha Bhogle and Richie Benaud had already taken away this job, left with no choice in this cruel world doing IT Project management.
I believe the ultimate end of education is to find a good life partner, I found the same in Prachi, a lawyer by profession and backbone of my family. It was my dream to marry non IT girl to have peaceful life outside office as I have seen few of my friends (IT couple) talking QC ids and MIMs instead of enjoying life on weekends.
The legacy of IT has rooted in “ Gore’s” next generation as my son Varad a 7 year old, a computer savvy kid, learning Java and designing his first mobile app (will be on play store end of this year) …its Java vs dot net war at my home - after all I am still loyal to Microsoft .
My second kid, Ojas 18 months old also following the same track, now he knows how to open You Tube and play his nursery rhymes, you can now imagine how my weekend goes managing unavoidable
Children teach you so many things; my elder son always pampers me ( yeah other way round in my house); when he is happy or I have achieved any award or I am angry with him or be it my birthday there’s always a card on my table at home with lot of expressions. I realized its means a lot when we send “Thank you “card to someone, be it in office or outside, isn’t it?
My hobbies make me travel, read books and debate on current affairs (mainly politics) and I always believe excellence is a series of hard work.
I think this is enough for an opening blog, will keep on unfolding secrets of MAD house in the second edition!
P.s . I haven’t pasted family snap expecting you all visit my FB page and hit like, trust I keep on posting creative stuff there as well.
World is simple place to live and we humans make it complicated, snap below is a classic (guess the location??)
Happy Weekend,
Disclaimer : Being an engineer and having a tendency to get things done at last minute, this blog was jotted only few hours before it rolled out, so please excuse on free flowing format and typos.
