I disappear

I'm about to undergo my first change of job.And at this juncture I can't just help doing a bit of what you call,'mulling over'!!

I have always felt about my current company that this has been a great place to work,as against the usual cribbing almost everyone has to his/her current workplace.People have all sorts of complaints...ranging from run-of-the-mill ones like bad food,pathetic transportation,poor allowances to very individualistic ones like untolerable boss,uncompromising peers,unrealistic expectations and also innovative ones like limited avenues of growth,strange policies,a change in location that the company isn't willing to give and even 'IT SUCKS MAN'.
For me,I couldn't just find a reason enough to call it quits.Call me complacent or may be because this is the only workplace that I know(it being the first) or whatever.

So,the question is,if things are so rosy around here,why am I contemplating a change??Need a fatter paycheque?A promotion denied?Or the ever-elusive arrangement,an overseas-assignment,we so dearly call,onsite-oppurtunity(i mean,the lack of it)?Or simply for a change??Or because everybody's doing it(changing jobs i.e.)?To be honest,it'll have to be the last one;switching loyalties is so common that if you don't do it,you are looked upon as just short of some sort of a handicap.Its almost fashionable.And I,I would say in my defence,became a victim of this democratic,majority-governed mindset.

Not that I regret making a move now,but somehow I can't help pondering over.It's only a case of preception,I have now come to conclude.When I had no thoughts of a job-change,I would see so many people changing jobs that I felt,another year in the same company and I would need to be immersed in preservatives that our Moms use for pickles.The situation is also made warlike by relatives,friends of relatives,friends of friends of relatives and a few door-k-risteydaars,who seem to be unable to accept that you spent THIS lot of time in a single company,while their son/nephew/next-door-neighbour's 'bacchha' has changed twice as many companies in half as many years as mine and is earning 5 times than what he started at!!'These days there are so many options.There weren't many in our times',I would hear them,as if in their own defence.People of the generartion of my parents,spent their entire lives with one company,mostly.And at the end of their careers,I don't find many lacking what they would have if they had not done so.

But,all said and done,me being a part of the current so-many-oppurtunities times,can't just afford to say that I'm doing good,even wihtout having to change job;its plain blasphemy going by the yet-unpublished Bible of a successful-career in the currently-in-boom Indian IT industry.Anyway,the result is me having to make a change.So,for now its Goodbye to my current company.I insist on the for now 'coz I just hope its not an 'Adieu',its more of 'hasta-la-vista baby'.

P.S - 'I Disappear' is a song by the metal band Metallica. The song was recorded as a contribution to the Mission: Impossible II Soundtrack.