The author of this blog, Wafter, is a science ,technology, engineering and math (STEM) enthusiast who was trained to be a Mechanical Engineer. The Mechanical Engineering training required him to survive more than 45 B.Tech degree-threatening exams on a relentless diet of Steamed Rice, Dal and Dosa. These exams honed his ability at frantically working towards his goals only at the last possible moments. His Mechanical Engineering training also required him to perform engineering experiments in heat and fluid transfer, stress testing, machining, electronics and computer aided designing. While some of these experiments had expected outcomes, through others he discovered the art of reverse engineering the experiments based on expected outcomes. Thus making him a well-rounded engineer. As are most Indians.
He subsequently dabbled in the unique industry of Information Technology. He owed his hiring to a selection process which did not involve testing his skills in computer coding or knowledge in financial services, both of which were integral to the success in his first-ever job. As he avoided on-site assignments to places like Brunei, Vietnam and Ivory Coast, he obsessed himself with attending a b-school with the sole purpose of extricating himself from the misery of coding and then counter-coding to fix bugs created by simultaneous coders trained in trades like electrical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering and the like.
Stag Sauce refers to the signature sense of humor of millions of engineer-stags in India. The humor encompasses topics like sports, romance, exams, food, movies among others.
(Wafter is now a banker at a top too-big-to-fail bank.)
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