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Q.1 - How was your journey from being in so many people are studying German then
Geca and then becoming a translator? what is the point in being just another one in
the crowd?!
Ans: Geca was something I dreamed about. When I searched for French I realised it is
The first thing after 12 was that I wanted to more inclined towards arts side, like
study engineering , I wanted to be a good paintings and architecture and so on. I
engineer . So I got into Geca, completed my thought it wouldn’t help me later if I wanted
engineering , then worked with TCS for to continue my career in the technical side .
sometime . So with the few options that I had I just went
One thing I learned from being in TCS was for the tougher one and started learning
that if you work with a MNC, your life Mandarin.
becomes monotonous . I just wanted a
change in my life , so I resigned from TCS Q.4 - What are the pros of learning a
and jumped into learning a foreign language. foreign language?
I decided with mandarin and started doing
interpretations and translation. Ans: There are a lot of benefits of learning a
This change really helped me a lot and I’m foreign language. We engineers know the
really loving this. work of companies, that gives us an edge
over other graduates since we can translate
Q.2 - How does it feel to do this job since and know the craft also. We can interpret
you belong to a technical background? stuff for them as well as give our inputs. We
can work on the technical side as well in
Ans: When I was in your shoes I used to translation . This also gives a benefit when
think that it wasn’t a big deal to be a our salary is concerned .Not many engineers
translator. I thought it’s easy to translate for study such foreign languages , and if you do ,
somebody or interpret something. But when you’ll definitely get an upper hand. Any
you put yourself in that you realise it is a lot foreign language will definitely help in your
different than you imagine. It is as difficult as career.
coding or writing a program . It is equally
difficult!
Q.5- Being a Geca student, what are your
Q.3 - Most engineers go for European memories?
languages where we might have future
jobs given our side of work . So what Ans: I have a lot of memories!So many
made you choose something as different lectures, so many classes , so many
as mandarin? practicals!!!
I can never forget any part of Geca in my life
Ans: To be honest, initially I also thought ever! Those 4 years were great!
about learning German or French like most
people. Everyone goes for German or Q.6 - Being alumnus of the college is there
French! something you would like say something
Then I was in Pune and I went to Max to the students?
Mueller Bhavan , They said they had 6
months of waiting and they take 150 Ans: Just one thing, whatever you do give
students in a class. That’s when I thought if your best and you’ll achieve everything that
you ever wanted.
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