And Allah is the best of planners. (Quran 8:30)
This is indeed true. It takes for a while for us to understand but when we get the hikmah behind that we are just purely amazed.
After +2 I wanted to be a doctor but landed in an engineering college and before completing engineering I was selected for a firm.I was upset when I couldn't become a doctor but it was all in my favor.
I'm afraid of blood and flesh and moreover most of the doctors in India are able to do only graduation in medicine. PG in medicine can be done only if you are super intelligent or super rich. I fall short in both. So even if I would have got into UG it wouldn't be possible to do a PG. People try for years together to get a PG seat.
An MBBS doctor earns around 40-50K which is easily earned by an engineer in initial days of career. I'm not negating the value of being a doctor but its just that it was really not suited for me and hence my lord chose the best path for me.
There were around 46 students from my engineering institute who were selected for a technology firm at Bangalore. Almost all of them joined on 9 June at Bangalore, but I was asked to join on 26th at Chennai, alone, even though I'm from Bangalore. Yes I was sad and worried about moving to a completely new city which is infamous for its hot-hotter-hottest weather and hell for north Indians.
I reached Chennai and joined the firm. My supervisor was a very rude lady she literally made me cry in project. Everyday with her was a torture for me. I hated her, hated my job and hated myself. But this was the time when I understood the technology in-depth and it was the knowledge which I gained during this period which made me so competent in technology that till date, i.e. after 9 years, it acts as a strong foundation as I never worked so much in my career at later firms.
While in college I found a homeopathic doctor at Chennai for one of my medical issue, but at that moment of time I never imagined that I would go to Chennai. But see how perfectly my Almighty Allah planned for me. I was in Chennai now, met the doctor and started my treatment. The treatment required me to meet the doctor after every 15 days and then take the medicine for next 15 days. I stayed in Chennai for 13 months and was able to complete the treatment successfully.
I moved to Bangalore after 13 months in the same firm. Work was fine unless I was put under a useless and biased supervisor. No matter how good my work is, his work was to find fault in that. he started making personal comments too. He was so much behind me that he asked me to change a software code in my name and later when it was installed in production it failed causing the issues at client place. This software failure was reported to higher managers and I was in a fix. It was year 2009-2010 when entire US was under financial breakdown which caused havoc on Indian IT firms. Almost all the firms where firing the employees, my firm fired around 13000 employees in which I lost one of my best friend from college.
To make it worst Appraisal cycle also arrived. I was sure that I'm going to be kicked out of the company just like other lady in my project. I had recently purchased my bike and had a loan to repay, I was so much worried and anxious.
But destiny behaves in amazing ways and hope comes when you have lost all of it. I got a new job at an International IT firm with kind-of better pay. This is how my Almighty Allah saved me.
Okay, so I spent around 4 years in second firm. The first 3 years were in software development where I absolutely had no major work. The only work I had to do was to reach office and come back home. At the end of second project I was in free pool i.e. without any project for around 2 months, so my resource manager asked to me join the HR department of the firm.
I was the contractor hiring manager here. It was here that I understood the band and salary structure of the company. I understood at what level of experience which band should be given and how much salary should be expected. When I looked at my band and salary was so ashamed.
Like my first firm, my new manager at HR department was also very biased. The appreciation mails of other team mates were forwarded to whole team but in my case it absent. One Stakeholder personally went to my manager and told him how I had closed a requirement which was pending from a long time and which lead to project being awarded to our firm. But my manager was quiet, no appreciation either by mail or oral.
In appraisal he ruined my rating. I was furious and gave the resignation without any job in hand. The sickness of the Manager can be imagined by the fact that usual notice period is 3 months but he reduced it to 2 months knowing the fact that I do not have any job in hand. This time also I had a loan to repay.
And here came the help from my Lord! on the last day at job I got the job offer from 3rd firm with correct designation and around 50% hike in pay (which I was able to negotiate due to my stint at HR).
Now at 3rd firm, everything was fine. The project, the people, the manager everyone was fine and work was very smooth. But I didn't had the profile for which I was hired. I waited for few months and proved my capabilities, even though I didn't had to do this because I was already at high band, and had a talk with Manager for my correct work profile. The reply was not very convincing and hence I decide to move on. Just after 9 months at this firm, I gave interview for 4th firm, got selected as Lead and put down my resignation. Along with correct role they gave me 50% hike in pay.
So within one year, I shifted 2 jobs, got promoted to Lead and got pay hike of more than 100%, Alhumdulillah.
One thing I forgot to mention. During my tenure at 2nd firm my marriage was fixed but just one month before wedding it was called of due to religious incompatibility. If I would have had got married I wouldn't have got the guts to resign without any job in hand and I would have continued at same designation and same pathetic pay. But Allah is the best planner, he had a perfect plan for me. He helped me get rid of religiously incompatible lady and rewarded me with better position and pay.
Allah azzawajal has rewarded me immensly in every walk of life. He has rewarded me with dunyawi as well as ukhrawi things.
So if you are having any trouble in life; pray to Almighty Allah and be assured that there is a better plan for you by the best of planner.
May Allah azzawajal accept me and keep rewarding this very sinful servant of his majesty self: Aameen,
