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Q. What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your life? Why?

 Ans.

A Carefree Me:

I was jobless and looking for a job, but because I was not married at that time and earning money from private teaching (tuitions), there was no pressure on me and I was carefree, but after all I would have to have a regular job, which is very important to have for a member of middle class like me. 

Seeing me free my sister offered me to accompany her to a trip to hill station with her kids in summer vacation.   I very gladly accepted, because all the expenses was to be borne by her.

A day or two before our departure a friend of mine came to me and told that he had found a job for me and I had to go with him for an interview next day.  I was shocked, because I was going to travel with my sister.  I flatly refused that I could not go with him because I was going to take my nieces and nephew to spend the summer vacation at a hill station.  He was also shocked at my refusal, because no one in his right mind can ever refuse an offer of a job when he is jobless. 

My friend requested me to come with him, because he had promised the guys at the company to bring the candidate.  He asked me to excuse for not joining immediately.

We went to the interview where the interviewer immediately after the interview offered me to join the job right then.  I looked at my friend with an opened mouth.  My friend took the situation in his hand and said that I was not able to join immediately, but will report after one month.  They very reluctantly agreed and we came back.

I went to the proposed trip with my sister and her kids to enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of the hill station. 

We came back after two weeks and my life came back to routine.   I didn’t go to join the offered job considering that they would not have waited for a careless candidate like me.

One day the same friend and I met again.  He asked why I didn’t go and join the job.   I asked, "How would a job wait for me when I didn’t accept it when it was being offered.  He told me that I sould go, because they were still waiting for me.

I very willingly went to the company and joined the job.  Later on when I asked my boss how come they waited for me?  He told me that they had appointed a guy on that position, but he could not cope up with it and left.

So this was the risk I took not accepting a job when I was jobless.  But luckily it didn’t turn up as risky as it seemed to be.