> > it is somewhere near either *Jayanagar oedipus complex* or off mark's > > Care to explain more about this complex? :-) > > Cheeni
oh I used to joke about this complex of the horde of wannabe IT entrepreneurs (a decade back or so) - primarily from the basavanagudi, jayanagar kinda middleclass, 'conservative' areas - blokes with good academics, steady and successful (!) life (Son: 'I got my dream job on the very first day of campus recruitment itself, saar' His father: 'my son has gone to 'states' right after his finals, he did not wait for results' - types) who thought (and many continue to think) that just because they can code well in c++ or a lisp or c (all at c), they can make it big in the IT world (the typical and dreamy route of: telecom startup - lucubration - acquisition - money off POTS, meaning wireless -OttToBahamas - nudity, I mean Nirvana) - but instead find that the going is difficult and that there are gazillion more things that are critical in life and business (such as a strong and functional backbone and a good amount of spunk in the scrotum) than the (only) ability to pore over a coredump - and finally, after their halfhearted (or halfbaked) attempts at 'raising' vc funds failed (that is at the very FIRST step of THE route itself), they go running back to their mothers crying mommmmieee and/or better still, go back to the same employer (who these oedipuses excoriated earlier as boring, unimaginative and lacking in risk taking abilities etc etc) once again, however NOT cranking code anymore but becoming SENIOR managers, as they now think they are good managers since they are armed with a real life 'experience' of running (away from) a company. Quite an anal explanation, eh? Oedipus. ps: towards the fag end of such amusements of mine, of my matings with remarkable men (and a few women too), Udhay and I were colleagues for a while, having fun at these types and much else - but I dared not utter the complex phrase because my boss then, was actually from Basavangudi and I suspected that Udhay also was! pps: If you go to the Jayanagar BDA complex on friday evenings or saturday mornings, in the vegetable market section, you may bump in to these species, beware. You may infectiously startle-up.
