During this week, Chinni has done some ground work. He roamed the city, met different people and gathered some information about software job. After a week he contacted his master.
“Hey Chinni, how are you?” he deliberately want to avoid the topic.
“Sir, I gathered all the information”, he explained what he gathered.
Master observed that there is no change in his determination or interest.
But still he didn’t believe that, it is possible for a person like Chinni to get that Hi-fi job. However he doesn’t want to discourage him further.
“Ok Chinni, I really appreciate your determination. So the first think that you have to do is getting grip on spoken and written English. You start learning from today onwards”, he stopped for a while.
Then he asked, “Do you know how to read english?” he asked looking at him questionably as he knows his capacity in English. He hardly knows alphabets.
Chinni felt ashamed to answer that question. He kept his face down and said “No”.
But immediately raised his head and said, “But, I can learn it”
“Hmm... “, master is rubbing his head with his hand. Though he appreciated Chinni’s determination, he worried that Chinni is living in dreams. How come a person who don’t know how to read and write English can get a software job? Only time will tell what can happen.
He knows Chinni since from his childhood. Both parents died in an accident when he was studying 5th standard. That accident happened in front of him. He is so disturbed after that incident. He almost lost his mind, not able to concentrate on studies. Master and his grandmother tried many ways to make him normal, but that didn’t happen instantly.
After many years, he slowly recovered. But he lost his studies.
“Ok, Chinni. You come daily morning and evening. So I will teach you basic English, OK?” His thought is at least he will learn English.
Chinni delighted after hearing that, his face bloomed like a 100 watts bulb.
“Thank you very much sir”, he shook his hand and returned home.
His grandmother is running a small grocery shop. She never saw him so happy.
“Chinni, what happened? You look so happy today?” She is getting ready to arrange dinner for him.
“I’m learning English and going to get a big job, that’s why I’m happy. Once I get that job, you no need to run this shop anymore”, Chinni said. His voice sounded honestly.
She burst into tears after hearing that. She knows how much struggle he had gone through after his parent’s dismissal. He is the only hope why she is still alive. She wanted him to do some Govt job. When he left his studies, she is the only person who believed that someday he will change.
She approached him and kissed on his fore-head and said, "I know one day you are going to get a big job".
After that he finished his dinner and slept.
Next day when he is getting ready, his grandmother gave some money and asked him to use it to buy books.
Chinni knows how valuable that money.
He left his home and reached master house.
His study started that day.
“Chinni, you always remember that ‘Rome was not built in a day’, so nothing can happen over a night. Some time it will take a lot of time than you can imagine. You must be patience. You should have a plan … work hard… should not lose your interest and focus. You should keep trying until you reach your goal, Ok”, the first thing master told to him before starting the lesson.
“I never lose the focus until I get that job”, Chinni said confidently.
First few weeks were very difficult to Chinni as he struggle to know the basics of the English. Slowly he got grip on the subject.
Meanwhile he joined in internet café as a helper. He made friend-ship with the owner; through him he learned basics of computers and internet.
First he watched how his owner was repairing the defective desktops. Later he got a grip on computer hardware and was able to repair on his own.
His owner impressed with his work and allowed him to browse the internet in leisure period.
There he met Anil, who is doing engineering in computer science in same city. Anil recognized Chinni’s talent as he repaired his desktop many times. He is one with whom Chinni started speaking in English.
“Chinni, I heard that you want to get a software job? Is that true? Why didn’t you tell me before”, Anil asked by keeping his voice angrily.
He first smiled, “When I joined here, I used to tell to everyone whoever comes here. But they looked at me like a crazy person, so I stopped telling. After that I met you. But, yes that is my goal”, Chinni said, his voice is firm.
“I know your talent. You will definitely get that job, but you must have a degree to get it. Otherwise, how much ever talent you have, they won’t give you that job. You may get the job, but that would be like a helper what you are doing here”, Anil stopped and looked at Chinni’s face for reaction.
Chinni is thinking... he didn’t realize about getting a degree so far.
“But, don’t worry; you can do it through distance education. I’ll help you to apply for that”, Anil said.
Chinni relieved and hugged him to show his gratitude for his help.
He applied for distance education, and it got approved.
Days are passing so fast. Chinni became so busy in his studies and work. He is attending English classes in morning, after that working in internet café, evening spending time to get the degree.
Anil introduced web page designing to Chinni casually. He understood how important this subject in internet. He decided to learn it and develop a new page on his own.
Within a month he learned the webpage design. He got an idea for new webpage. He spend several days to implement the prototype of his idea. Finally he could able to finish it. He approached Anil to share his work with him.
“Anil, I decided to start a new webpage. The concept is, whoever registers in this webpage, they can do video chatting freely with anyone”, He said and slurped water from the bottle.
Anil Shrugged and said, “What’s so different this video chatting than others?”
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