Our Story
It was the year 2004, a young boy of 22 years graduated from Dharamshala. He was intelligent and used to score 100/100. After completing his graduation, he wanted to do a job. So the very next day of completing the college he went to a cyber café at 9AM (with very light breakfast). He didn’t have the computer and printer at home. Only very few rich and tech savvy families used to have it at home. Cyber café was 4KM away from his home in Palampur. He didn’t have the car or a two-wheeler so he had to use public transport for commuting. He walked to the bus stop and waited for the bus for 45 minutes. Finally, he managed to get inside the already crowded bus, he didn’t have any other option too. After traveling as standee for 30 minutes he reached the bus terminus of the city.
Now he started looking for the cyber cafe in the market. After walking 2 KMs he found a cyber café but the internet was down due to some reason. So he had to hunt for another one. After walking for another 2 KMs he found a cyber cafe. The shopkeeper said he is going to charge Rs 100/hr. Poor boy didn’t have any other choice. He agreed and started doing his work. He had basic typing skill, MS word knowledge and knew how to surf internet. He went to cyber cafe to make his resume but didn’t know how to make it.
He asked the cyber cafe person to help him. The shopkeeper came to help the boy but he was computer illiterate and knew only how to switch on/off the PC. So the boy had to take help from google. Boy thought that he would be done with preparing his resume in 30 mins. but he ended spending 2 hours. Computer systems and internet were pathetically slow. It ripped away all the money that boy had in his pocket.
Finally, he was done with preparing his resume. It was already 12:30PM. He started feeling hungry but didn’t have money to buy anything. Also, he had to go and submit his resume to multiple schools by 2 PM before they close for the day. So he hurried on foot to various schools to submit his resume. At first school, no one entertained him. He left his resume with a peon. At second school, they refused said they don’t need any teacher and the story continued for six schools. Many people didn’t even talk to him properly (probably they were having their own bad day). By now the poor boy had walked for another 3 KMs, he was feeling hungry, tired, and demotivated. There was one more school left and he wanted to cover that the same day because he had to go to another city the next day.
Therefore, he rushes to the next school, reaches the school just 5 mins before it was supposed to be closed for the day. He met a gentleman outside Principal’s office who quickly understood what the boy is going through. He offered him chair to sit and water to drink. Then, very politely he listened to the boy, where is he coming from and why he needs to job. At the end he said very politely “today I may not be able to offer you a job. But that does not mean that you lack something. You are very knowledgeable, and you will add value wherever you go. So go and find someone who needs you and remember one thing that sincere and hard-working young people like you will always be needed.”
These kind words from an unknown angel filled the boy with motivation. All his tiredness and de-motivation disappeared, and the boy bagged two jobs in next three days. This 5 mins talk with the unknown angel had profound impact on the boy. So he decided to be an angel to the young talent by giving them what he received from his unknown angel.
This boy is none other than Mr. Neeraj Sharma. He had helped many people who came in his contact. He wanted to reach more people by breaking the boundaries of time, location and access to him and help them on IT Consulting. Therefore, he conceived the idea of this blog newseie.com.
My sincere thanks to the unknown angel.