Misfit in my first job

Somehow it didn't feel right being a diplomat when I had spent years learning engineering, says the author Like one's love, one remembers, or ought to remember, one's first salary cheque and some people even preserve it and often frame it and hang it on the wall. Lee Iacocca, who began his career as an apprentice engineer with Ford Motors Company and ended as its president, until he was unceremoniously sacked one morning, kept his first cheque as a memento. It was $ 37.60 after tax and Iacocca says he did not cash it. My first cheque was, I think, for 34 pounds sterling, but unlike Iacocca, I promptly cashed it. It was handed over to me by my first boss, V.K. Krishna Menon, who was at the time our high commissioner in London. It's a long story but let me begin at the beginning. Af

This article was originally published on December 05, 2021.