Extended Transition

Rakesh Patel

As life doesn't exactly follow the footstep of your dreams, it doesn't easily turn the way you want it to direct. But to grab the opportunity and make it a beautiful path makes one successful.

Usually when opportunity comes, it can appear in a different form or can come from different direction than we usually expect. I guess, this is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize it.

Since I knew this characteristic of opportunity, I just applied my "Never Say No" rule to my manager's word when he said - "Go and fix 10MW Pratt and Whitney machine. I don't know how you do it, I want it to run by this week" Since money wasn't an issue, My shoulders had some support. Anyways, I don't want to bore you people with the inside technical story of the Project. I will just tell you about the fun part.

The three genius Mr John Jodon, Ben Copper and Carlie Marinda was on the project and I was following them. As being fairly new to this machine and in total experience compared to these guys, I had more to learn than to fix.






Observant nature teaches you a lot. Turn your head around with this attitude and the head box ( brain ) will be full in few hours. Store it in your hard disk and turn your head again! I was more of observant and obedient. My work was from holding the torch to removing some extra complicated parts of the machine. Understanding the control system, circuits and troubleshooting the actual parts was fun. Finally, after 9 days of straight work, the machine looks happy and running smoothly.




Mr John Jodon is the dictionary of Pratt and whitney machine. He is the very first physical link of my very old dream "NASA". ( Will tell you more about it at a right time). Fun with work mainly involved the two countries - USA and Australia. John is from Texas. Me being an Indian and Carlie, filipino, was spice in the talk. It was more buddy vs mate. highway vs free way, walmart vs Kmart. weather its John's Ducati, his different range of cars or his wife and daughter, John exactly knew where funny was and never missed any chance to make his customers happy.

Remember opportunity never goes empty, if you don't become the host, someone else will.

dream on guys, its the best way to live your life.

Peace and love.