Many years ago I experimented with bio-feedback. The technician wired my fingers with a thermometer – the temperature of my fingers registered on a visible meter. The idea is this – when we are stressed our body naturally diverts our blood supply to our torso to protect our vital organs – thus our hands and feet cool with less blood flow. Learning to divert the blood back to our limbs presumably reverses the stress. Bio-feedback is designed to help learn how to warm our hands and feet – which has a calming affect.

Those Hindus sitting on mountain tops in eastern India invest years in learning to control their blood flow – in America we want the fast and furious. Better living through technology.

In any case, I can now warm my hands by about five degrees by merely thinking about it. I don’t know if it reduces my stress – but it sure is distracting from life problems.

Take Care.

And yeah I agree on that part, we’ve been talking only abt IT(whose chances I still belive are great in India.. but lets leave it at tht ). My roomie is a graduate in Transportation Engineering( a spec in civil) and he keeps saying that he wont have many opportunities in India.

Work can be anything: Retail, hotel industry, food & wine, entertainment, cleaning services, dogwalking … the list is endless.
btw, dogwalkers here in SF are making such good money that IT seems almost pointless. but not everybody wants to pick up dog**** for a living

and that Desi consultant scam has me bitter to the bone. not because of the success of those liers, no. but because of the people who hire them. To get hired in USA, particularly in IT, you need not have real talent, or experience, you only need to memorise those interview answers and answer it with confidence. you get hired and paid well on teh spot.

anyway, I have hw to do. University never ends

And when I say people , I mean people who are worth. There are ofcourse some Engg graduates who doesn’t deserve to be called Engineers and its they who want to work, but do not find it.

Now again coming to US, lemme remind that there is this whole huge desi consultant scam, where people who just graduate with who-knows-what grades are faked as consultants having 6-7 yrs of experience, with fake resumes and sometimes fake phone interviews get placed with some client and work their ass-up to keep up to their Resume. If all these consultants were banned and If one were supposed to find a job, being the person that he actually is, do you still think all those who want to work will still find the work?

Nou dink ek snags stories uit, staan saggies op en gaan skryf dit in shorthand neer.

Certain kinds of jobs are harder to find, and lay-offs happen often, but I’ve never met a person here who really wanted to work, and didn’t.

If you want to work, you will have a job in this country. it may not be your dream job, but it will be a job. So many people have 2 or 3 different jobs. If you’re inbetween career moves, you always have the option here of keeping afloat with lower paying jobs. Not to mention working for yourself!