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* Record Computer Screen video in HD without external software Generally to record your computer screen, you need a special software. But without going for any external software we can record computer screen in HD resolution using the well known suit which every computer will have i.e., PowerPoint of Microsoft Office. Using the MS PowerPoint you can record video of any size, edit(resize, effects, cutting, cropping etc) and save. Follow the below steps to record and save computer screen using PowerPoint. 1. First open PowerPoint select the empty slide(make it empty by deleting text boxes). 2. Next go to insert in the top menu bar and select Screen recording 1. when you click that a recording window gets opened with start, stop, pause, select area options for recording your computer screen. 1. Select the size of the window for recording computer screen and then click start, recording gets started. 2. After finishing recording hover your cursor to the top to see stop button and click it to stop. 3. As soon as you stop recording, the video will be put on the slide and you can edit it with tools available in the power point. 1. After finishing editing right click the video and select save media as and save your video. That’s it. Open your video to see your recording. Source: Techs Text [ http://www.techstext.com/ ] . * Gmail hack In the gmail username there is no preference for .(dot) It does not count whether you put dot in the username or not. So this mean username@gmail. com is same as user.name@gmail. com = u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail. com you can try this trick and check . * Facebook Password hack In the facebook password if you alter all the lower case letter to uppercase and vice versa there is not going to be any change. So if your facebook password is: FacePass123 is same as fACEpASS123 . * Create your own desktop background themes You might have installed themes for your desktop background with .themepack extension. But you can create those on your own with all your favorite images you want. Follow the steps below: First select all the images which you want to create a theme of. After selecting right click and select Set as desktop background. Next go to your desktop and right click to see the Next desktop background option. By going to Personalization you can save your theme with your name. After saving the theme right clicking on it gives an option to share it, save as . deskthemepack which you can share with your friends or put it in the web for others. So that’s very simple right creating your own desktop themes. * Create Custom email address @engineer. com, @techie. com, @physicist. net for Free You can create your own custom email address from Mail.com. There are 150+ custom domains of which you can have your email ID. Few of the domains are: activist. com, asia. com, doctor. com, chemist. com, clerk. com, columnist. com. engineer. com, deliveryman. com, doglover. com…………+150 other custom domains of different categories. You can freely signup and can have upto 10 different custom emails for one account. You can amaze your friends with these custom emails. You can say like, me@techie. com. Sounds good right!!! Hope you guys can make most out of your 10 minutes using these tech hacks…

For dropping some files onto a drive at work and “sneaker-netting” it home, sure, the USB Flash drive is quite good. For long-term storage? Nope. In fact, nearly any other kind of storage will be more reliable in the long term.The Architecture of a Flash CellFlash memory is a relatively recent invention, so we don’t have as much history as you might think about longevity. But enough to know that flash is a temporary thing. This wasn’t a shock or even a problem, for several reasons, but largely because in its initial use, flash memory replaced EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory), which itself had a limited longevity.A flash memory cell is made of a MOSFET transistor with a “floating” gate. This is a gate surrounded by insulators. To write a bit, electrons tunnel through the insulator and are stored on the floating gate in a process called channel hot-electron injection. To erase a cell, Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling is used.The original sort of flash was retronymed “SLC”, for single level charge. This is what you’d expect out of a binary thing: there’s either a programmed charge on the gate (0) or no charge (1). An SLC flash cell should last about 90,000–100,000 program/erase (P/E) cycles…. some specialized parts can last 1,000,000 P/E cycles.However, flash designers got more clever, and came up with “MLC” flash, for multi-level charge. Now they could write three different levels of charge, plus no charge, to deliver two bits per cell. However, this made the cells more fragile, less robust against corruption over time. More robust “enterprise” qualified MLC flash memories used in more expensive SSDs have a write/erase lifetime of about 20,000–30,000 write/erase cycles. Normal consumer oriented MLC flash memories have delivered about 5,000-10,000 P/E cycles, and they’re down to around 3,000 P/E cycles at the 15nm node. And even more recently, we have “TLC” flash, which puts in seven levels of charge or none, to store three bits per cell. That’s one of the reasons flash memory got so cheap. But you’re going see cells failing after 1,000–3,000 P/E cycles.And here’s the other thing… flash has, for awhile, been getting worse. The highest density 2-D TLC chips may only deliver 300 P/E cycles these days. The wear mechanism in flash memory is primarily due to stress on the tunnel oxide layer in each cell. The oxide layer degrades as electrons, over time, become trapped in the oxide. And as we’ve been shrinking the chip geometries of these cells, their longevity has been dropping. Curiously, when a drive runs hotter, there’s less stress on the insulator, so the overall effect is a longer lived drive… but shorter data life. The 3-D chips used in high density flash have increased longevity and data retention, as they’ve mostly gone to larger chip geometries.Data RetentionSo as mentioned, there’s a charge — a bunch of electons — placed on an insulated gate. That’s your storage mechanism. There are only so many electrons, and over time, they’re gradually going to leak off the gate. At the high end, the specialized, small flash memories in embedded microcontrollers can be expected to last 20 years to 100 years at 25C. On the other hand, Intel recommends unpowered consumer SSDs for data retention of only a year. And this is exacerbated as the drive takes on wear.Now, for SSDs, it’s a bit different when the drive is active. Between wear levelling and data enhancing routines, an active drive will last considerably longer than a year, even the static data stored on that drive. There’s quite a bit going on within a modern SSD that you never actually see, which is designed to spread wear out across the drive. USB drives, though, don’t run data-enhancing routines.And the trend toward less reliable flash has started to reverse itself, at least for now. The 14nm or so node is about as small as a practical NAND cell can go today, even though we have smaller chip geometries. They just get too unreliable. So the larger memories coming out today, 256GB per chip and so, are actually 3D chips using larger geometries. Some of these stack 48 bits worth of data on separate layers, and the reliablity is up.Mechanical and Environmental IssuesFlash drives of any kind will lose data faster in warm environments. Most consumer USB dongles are not recommended for use over 40C or storage over 50C, but they’ll last longer in colder temperatures.The standard rating of a USB Type A connector is only 1500 plug/unplug cycles. This should never be an issue for any USB stick you’re using for longer term storage, as you’d like to use those drives just once. But it’s a consideration if you have a drive you’re using every day. And of course, that’s a rating — you could find your real-world life is more or less than the USB specification.Real World ExamplesYou don’t have to take my word for it, either: a drive, whether USB, SD, or SSD should offer longevity data in the drive’s data sheet. Or in their warranty. However, you’re probably not going to find it mentioned at all for most drives, because the manufacturers don’t warrant data retention. That should tell you a thing or two.Here’s a USB flash drive designed specifically for long life and long retention. This Swissbit drive is SLC, so only charge or no-charge on each memory cell, and it’s rated for 100,000 program/erase cycles. And when new, it’s rated for a 10 year data retention. When at the end of its useful life, though, it’s only rated for a year of data retention. So if you must insist on using USB flash drives for storing imporant things, use a new one and put it right on your shelf. Oh… by the way, the Swissbit 4G SFU24096E3BP2TO-I-DT-121-STD drive is only USB 2.0 and costs $97.58 in single quantities on Digi-Key.For about the same cash, I can buy a PNY Technologies P-FD512ELX-GE Elite-X Fit USB 3.1 flash drive… 128x the storage, and USB 3.1 performance as well. Only one problem: PNY has a one-year warranty for the operation of the device, and absolutely no data retention warranty. None. The JEDEC specifications for NAND flash memory require an SSD in power-off to retain data for one year, in consumer devices, and 3 months, in Enterprise devices, through the life of the device. So yeah, you can expect newer devices to retain data longer. There’s no requirement that the NAND flash memory in your USB stick meet full JEDEC specifications, but major brands most likely do. Those are not the numbers you want, but that is the fact.SanDisk warrants some of their actual USB flash drive hardware for a “Lifetime”, whatever that actually means (30 years in countries that don’t allow lifetime warranties). You would think that might have them offering a data longevity warranty or even an official guideline. Nope, they don’t.Kingston warrants more of their USB flash drive hardware for 5 years, but they don’t have a data retention warranty, either. In fact, they offer this guidance: “Kingston Flash Data Retention: Kingston Flash Storage Devices primarily use MLC/TLC Flash Memory. Data retention on Flash memory is dynamic since the amount of time the memory has been cycled affects data retention. Important information should always be backed up on other media for long-term safekeeping.”And sure, you can hear ancedotal stories of USB flash dongles from 10 or 15 years ago being completely good today. And sure, possible but not likely and absolutely not guaranteed other than on specialty memory like the Swissbit. And the memory chips made 15 years ago were almost certainly more reliable, being both SLC and much larger chips.So, Where to Archive?Well, I’d pick a hard drive over an SSD any day of the week. The magnetic storage on an HDD is extremely robust, likely to last 10–20 years or more, but do check your specific hardware’s data sheets. The problem is, you’re dependent on the mechanical bits of the drive tolerating that 10 year sit. You may be fine, or you may be subject to “stiction” problems, where lubricants get sticky over the years and prevent a normal spin-up.My long-term medium of choice is Blu-ray, with qualifications. The minimum you want is “HTL” Blu-ray. The original Blu-ray formulation starts out shiny, and the laser melts a bit of silicon and copper together, forming a less reflective material that’s stable against sunlight. Avoid “LTH” discs, which use dyes similar to those used on CD-R and DVD-R.Even better is M-Disc, a proprietary non-organic HTL disc using a material engineered specifically for longevity. The disc is even HTL for the DVD-R version, one reason it needs a special drive to burn it… regular CD-R and DVD-R is always LTH…. the laser is making the dye layer clear, allowing the reflection layer through. M-Disc is described as “glassy carbon”, it’s unaffected by oxygen — the enemy of the aluminum layer in a CD-R or DVD-R — and rated for 1,000 years life. Even if that’s an exaggeration, if that’s not effectively “forever” for me, then I’m certain all my old media will be stored in 0.001% of my positronic brain upgrade. But this also points out a universal truth — nothing is forever and under every circumstance. There’s no such thing as “waterproof”, you only have degrees of water resistance. There’s no such thing as “timeproof”, you only have degrees of time/entropy resistance.You can also consider managed archival… online storage. Storing things in the cloud, you will get the slight benefit of enterprise-level hardware, perhaps. But what you’re really getting is active data management. You’re paying that company to mind your data, replace drives (on a RAID, of course) before they fail, etc. I never would have considered this a year ago when I was on satellite internet at 12Mb/s and low data caps, but today I’m on a gigabit no data caps. So it’s an actual option for some.UPDATE: After I wrote this, I did self-examine my former stance on online backup. I was not a fan, because it was slow, expensive, and based on your faith in the company still being around when Godzilla stomps on your house. But I did some research and signed up for a trial backup with a cloud backup company, and then paid the annual low flat-fee. So we’ll see. This service has very little user interaction.Their main purpose is backing up media, not making an archive of your HDD, which is my main concern. So they don’t back up program installs. They automatically scanned 1,882,572 files worthy of backup, at 13,454,758 MB. They have so far backed up all but 25,522 files, but those files compries 10,288,725 MB of data. I started this three weeks ago, and I’m on gigabit fiber to the internet. So the throttling is probably intentional, and not unexpected. Nearly everything they’re achiving will never change at my end, so ones is enough.Now, of course, if Godzilla did stomp my house, I would not relish the idea of spending several months downloading my stuff. This company will provide all that data on 8GB hard drives… so two drives and I’m good. Not terribly expensive, particularly compared to my house and all my meat-space stuff. At some point, I’ll probably update this again.Rot and RedundancyNo matter what you do, you’re subject to data loss. The best archival medium is redundancy. When I store my photos on those pricey BDXL M-Discs, I write overlapped… so half of the last backup goes onto the next backup. Every photo is on at least two discs. And my RAID. And my backup HDD.I have recently added online backup, once I found a service without data limits. But even with a fast internet connection to the home, this can be a crazy slow process. I started about a week ago and it’s maybe 2TB archived out of around 13TB of data. If you’re paying a per-data fee, it gets expensive, fast.While SSDs can show data rot in a few years, HDDs and tape certainly can as well. I shot analog video in 1994 on high quality tape that was showing rot by 2008 (multiple playings on different 8mm decks got it all converted to digital). Some of the old CDs we made in the early 1990s are still good, some of the CDs and DVDs I made in the later 1990s and early 2000s are dead. Particularly for anything using organic dyes, both light and heat are your long-term enemies.Then there’s format rot. I backed up onto TR-4 tapes in the 1990s. It wouldn’t matter if the tape’s good if I can’t find a compatible drive. Or a PATA hard drive for that matter… you can probably still find a PATA interface, but your modern PC may not have one. One of the best reasons for CD/DVD/BD is the fact it’s a consumer format, not just a computer format… that’s the primary reason the discs stayed upward compatible over three decades and counting. But will that last? UHD Blu-ray is out, with 66GB and 100GB discs, based on the same tech used in BDXL, so that is a consumer format. But it’ll never be as popular as HD Blu-ray, which isn’t as popular as DVD. Will we have another consumer optical upgrade? But I digress…So archive often, on different media, and in different places. That’s the only way to prevent data loss for certain. And flash drives are cheap, but not archive-grade. If you must use them, back up redundantly.Read Morehttps://www.anandtech.com/show/9...Dave Haynie's answer to Is SD card a good idea for long term data storage?Dave Haynie's answer to If I keep files backed up on an external SSD, is it safe to assume that without damage to it, they'll last forever, are they safe there, permanently?

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Originally answered - Shilpi Roy's answer to Should I choose signNow or Goldman Sachs (India)?The answer is gonna be really long. Grab some snacks as it could take a while.I was the happiest person the day I was selected as a FTE (tech analyst position) at GS - a reputed fin-tech company which mostly hires tier-1 students, a dream for many. I heard from many people that GS offers package as high as 32lpa which was quite a big deal for me - or for anyone who might have been at my place.Then came the HR’s call. She offered me semester long internship in GS! I was glad that I don’t have to spend my last semester in college and will also earn some money. With the stipend as high as 75k and stay at Hilton hotel during intern, anybody is likely to go crazy and say “YES”.And so I did.The beginning (GS-Bengaluru office)Soon came 7th January. Day started off with amazing orientation and office visit. Then came the lunch buddy - GS assigns a buddy from your department to have lunch with you the day you join, let’s say he was Raghav (name changed).Raghav seemed to be a really smart guy. I asked him a few questions about GS being a fin-tech, is it easy to switch and other questions. He seemed to be out of place, not interested. A guy came who was an intern in a team in which Raghav used to work. He kept talking and giggling with him, completely ignoring my presence. Cool, maybe Raghav is a bad guy - who cares?Met with my manager and two other interns who were in the same department - GIR. He seemed like a chilled-out and thoughtful person. Let’s call him Rudra.Our whole department used to sit in a middle sized cabin which accommodated around 32–35 employees of GIR. My happiness knew no bounds! Great team, small cabin and friendly manager - what else could I ask for?Then came the next day. We were introduced to our team and had a lunch together. Oh no! Lunch here was not free - no big deal. Only 80rs/- per plate is affordable when you earn 75k per month, I thought.After having lunch, we began installing softwares required. Wait, you can’t install some softwares without manager’s permission. Fine! I messaged my manager and he granted the permission. He came later in the evening and gave 3 of us an interesting machine learning problem to solve - in a week, till we get our projects.He had three projects in mind, and he left it for us to decide which one we want to take. I took the one which I thought was more impactful and cool, also because we had a member of our team working for the project. My task was to integrate the backend stuff he wrote with the UI I was going to create. Also to help him with some of those backend stuffs later on.“You can take help from Varun, in case you need” said Rudra.So it began!1st MonthI started learning React.js for the UI I was going to implement from various websites. There were tons of tutorial there. After understanding some theory, I clicked on ‘try it on codepen’ - online editor.“You are restricted from using an external website - no permissions”What? I can’t even use some online editor. Okay that’s fine - we have pretty sensitive data in GS. Since it’s a finance based company, we have client data with us and user may copy and paste it online - someone might steal the data! All this made sense. ‘It’s fine, I’ll bring my own laptop tommorow’, I thought before leaving.I could see two teammates standing behind me from my peripheral vision. One who was writing the backend stuff for the project I was working upon, let’s call him Varun.Varun was a silent and sober guy - a hardworking one who speaks only when required. Another guy standing beside him was Raghav.“Hey!” I said in a low tone.“Did I do some crime? Why are these two here?” I wondered.“You brought your personal laptop, is everything fine here?” they asked.I told them about the restrictions. Raghav took my work PC and sent Rudra, my manager a request to approve codepen.I waited. One hour. Two hours. Codepen still not working. Fine for me since I have my own laptop. No worries.After 2 weeks Varun called me and started assigning tasks to do for the UI. I was full of enthusiasm and paid full attention to what he wanted. I started looking out for the cool libraries out there and found - material-ui.‘Perfect!’ I exclaimed.Started with the tasks, and was able to achieve the target next evening. It looked damn good! Varun will be happy. And so, I showed it to him.“Okay, font-size is a bit huge. And please change the app’s name - ELEGANT USER’S APP” (name changed). And so I did.“E-L-E-G-E-N-T U-S-E-R—S A-P-P”What a funny name, I thought. (The real one was funnier than the changed one)So days went, 1..2…3 and I completed 5–6 tasks. The basic UI (20%) was done. Then came Varun -“Shilpi, you did this using which library?”“Material-ui! It’s really good and..”“Okay, but make sure you can use it. Only specific libraries can be used at GS. Search xyz site and ensure if we can use it. If yes, proceed. Else use GS UI library”What did he just say. I worked on the UI for 2 weeks, and he is telling me now that I may not be able to use the material-ui library! No way..With my heart beating fast, I typed..X..Y….Z …..gs..comCtrl+F“M-A——T-E—-R—I—A”Boom! It’s there. I was delighted :)The next day I was late. I saw a message pop up. It was from Raghav.“Hey” it said.“Hey” I replied.“Please try to attend the daily standup. If you don’t, mail Rudra about your update :)” He replied.There hasn’t been a single day I was late. But okay, FINE.Then came the 5th day - friday. I got a message from Varun.‘Hi Shilpi, can you make another UI using GS-UI?’Oh No!. Again?.‘Just for the feel…we’ll show it to Rudra next week, he’ll choose which one we can use’*Slow Claps*Well played Varun. Why did he approve the material-ui one if he wanted it in GS-UI - I wondered.It’s fine, I can do it. I encouraged myself and went to the internal site - gs-ui-library. (name changed)Okay, fine. This looks good. Okay. Cool. Documentation.. documentation….uhmm.I searched for the whole day, no documentation. Just few codes and examples to understand how to display some component.Way uglier than material-ui - I thought. And a minute later, an evil idea came to my mind..“What if I make the UI using gs-ui-library so ugly that Rudra and Varun both reject! That would be great!”The next week on friday, I was done with gs-ui-library. My code was asked to be removed from codesandbox by Varun - it’s illegal to put GS’s internal code there. I could hear Rudra laughing about how he is afraid of the interns bringing personal laptops here, and what will happen if someone names a variable as “GIR” and put it on github.I showed Rudra the material-ui one. He was impressed.“This looks good! But don’t keep the name as ‘ ELEGANT USERS APP’, instead keep it as ‘THE USERS SEARCH APP’ ” (name changed)“But Rudra, Varun has asked me to..”“I will ask him. We will decide and tell you”Fine. Keep the name as ‘The bla-bla app’. I don’t care.Varun was already gone by the time.I smirked. I won’t show the UI I made using gs-ui-library to Rudra!Next day Varun was on my desk. He asked whether I showed both the UI’s.“No, actually I forgot to show the other..”“See, the people above us will probably ask why we didn’t use GS-UI. That’s why I am saying so. I have no problem with material-ui. Just ask Rudra if he is fine with it. Rudra…”“Yes, Varun” replied Rudra.And then he showed both the UI’s to him. The ugly one. The good one.“I think it looks great - the ‘gs-ui-library’ one!” Rudra exclaimed.I shouted in my mind - “How can he..!”“See Shilpi, we don’t have any problem using material-ui one but the people for whom we are making the app will ask why we didn’t use the internal-gs library. Okay, tell me one thing - it does have all the components you require, right?”“Yes, Rudra” I sighed.“Seems like Shilpi wanted to use material-ui, haha” Rudra giggled and looked at Varun. I could hear the giggling from one if the two interns from behind - Tejas (name changed).He was also working on a UI, along with some backend stuff. He was using ‘gs-ui-library’ from day one. And so, he giggled.Rudra -1 .. Shilpi - 0This was the first time I went home feeling sad. Why didn’t they tell me 2 weeks ago? Now I will have to work on the other one. And the library has no documentation.Next week , Varun decided to keep the name as “ELEGENT-USERS-APP”. He refused Rudra.Varun -1.. Rudra- 0So I went back to my desk and began.“g-s-u-i-l-i-b-r-a-r-y” I typed.Gs-ui-library was a really terrible library. No documentation, made by mixture of other available libraries online. It was like an accidental product of some cross-breeding. A scientific failure.Anyways, I somehow learnt basic features which I could implement using the library. On the other hand, my machine was damn slow - for a reason I didn’t know.“Why are you using vs code? How did you get it!” asked Rudra who saw me coding on vscode.“I like it- it’s really good for react. Installed it from the store.”“Haha, use intellij, okay!” Rudra said in a serious tone.Wow. After making me work with the gs-ui-library, now he is snatching away the editor I love. Cool.I still continued with vs code. Varun was totally fine with it.I went to drink a glass of water. Didn’t bring my bottle that day. So took a ‘visitor’s cup’ from inside the drawers.“Ma’am, you can’t drink in that. It’s only for visitors” said a staff guy who saw that I was about to drink water from the visitor’s cup.I looked at him in shock.“Oh, it’s ok for today you can use it..Ma’am” he replied.Great. Block websites - facebook, gmail, codepen. Take my material-ui away. Don’t allow me to use vs-code. And also, don’t let me drink water at peace!I was pissed off. Huh!2nd MonthSo I started working on the integration part. Meanwhile we used to have meetings in which we were told about GIR and it’s functions. Rudra used to tell us about how fun the NAPA training is going to be, and how we will start hiding our id cards after the event.I completed the integration part in a week or so. Gave a weekly demo to Rudra.Next week was going to be a demo with Monica’s team (name changed). The finance guys for whom we were building the ‘ELEGANT USERS APP’. Varun was happy that I had completed the integration part and added 2 more features to implement.- feature1 & feature2Before the demo, we had a meeting with Monica just a week before. Rudra, Varun and I gathered in a room.“So Shilpi, how’s the work going? Are you liking it - the UI stuff? Aren’t you bored?” Rudra asked.“Hehe.. Actually yeah it’s a little boring. I hope backend stuff starts soon!” I honestly replied.“You know UI people make the most money.” Rudra smirked.“No, that’s a lie. Backend people make more money.” I replied.“Shilpi, that’s the case of technical firms. In financial firms like us, UI people earn more bonus.” said Varun.Soon came Monica. Varun and Monica proceeded on what she wants and what actually we have. It was a debate between them and I listened.Since the lunch time was over, Rudra and I went to the food-court outside to have one.“Shilpi, you know I was like you. The silent guy in the room. If someone else was at your place he would have asked a lot of questions! ”“I think it’s better to listen Rudra, than argue. I didn’t have much idea about what they were talking and the talk was mostly concerning Varun.”“See..it’s good very good. But to be at a place like GS…you know! The world is very mean, Shilpi. You need to speak more than you do work here! Many people don’t know much but they’ll get ahead of you because they speak. I was like you when I joined GS. In the group discussion round, when everyone was debating.. I just sat at the corner. HR came and asked each of us individually. If she hadn’t done that, I mayn’t be sitting here today”I gave it some thought. He was right.Some days later feature1 stopped working. I had no idea why, I was using an excellent library for feature1, of-course an external one. Varun himself has asked me to use an external for that case since we don’t have a gs library for that.But now. It wasn’t working.It took me a week to include the library - react-bootstrap-table2 with the project along with the features it had, and use it. And some magic happened. Now feature1 stops working. Damn!I woke up the whole night - till 4 am to make the feature1 work. The remote desktop worked very slow. In GS, we are not given laptops for security purposes. So we have to use remote desktop.It was damn slow but I was patient. I kept on trying and trying till I fell asleep early in the morning. Woke up around 12.An hour before demo with Monica’s team, I told Varun about it. He said it’s fine, we will show the demo without it.Tik…tikk….I wasn’t satisfied. I worked damn hard for 45 min and was able to make feature1 work!We went to give the demo. Varun pulled out a chair and sat before a PC.“Hi Monica!”“Hey Varun!”And so it started. The demo. The UI I made. The features I implemented. The integration. My two month’s hard work.All of them was presented by our VP, Mr.Varun!“Uhm…but we don’t need feature 1 and 2, Varun. You can remove it” said Monica.W-H-A-T! What did she just say. I went an hour back in time.I am sweating. I can feel I am nervous. This has to go good. I know well about the project, and I will make the feature-1 work! I will!Yes, I did. Only to lose the presentation as well as the feature.I rushed out of the room with the unhappy face which no one bothered about in the meeting room. I was silent and in hurry, it was weekly demo too today.“Haashh.. It went great!” exclaimed Varun who barely ever talked to me. Since like 1962!“Okay, but we have a weekly demo too!”The weekly demo got cancelled. Varun proceeded to tell me how we don’t need feature-1 and all the new features which Monica wanted. I remembered them all. One of them was a feature-X which was not possible technically. I tried making Varun understand and he did, after quite a while.Then came the mid-semester exam and I finally got a break!3rd MonthI went to my home after holidays. After 2 months, 1,40,000 was credited to my account. I bought clothes for mom and dad. I was delighted and ready to go back!Came back to office happily. Compiled the code.React-bootstrap-table2 library code - gone. Whole UI code changed in a week. My 2 week’s effort - 1 week for the library and 2 nd for other features went to ashes.Just in ONE SINGLE WEEK.~Varun committed the code 2 hours ago~~Varun committed the code yesterday~~Varun….~And so on.Varun started using an internal gs-ui-library library instead of react-bootstrap-table2. Instead of giving proper review comments, he changed my code by himself. Some backend stuff also came to me.I fetched the code from repo, the one Varun had implemented. And tried to understand.“You just have to implement feature-b-xyz, no need to go through whole code” he said.Fine.I added a new feature. Compiled and checked. Everything was working fine. Committed the code.Next day I came. Compiled the code.‘EXCEPTION THROWN’‘FAILED’And my PC hangs. For no reason why.I checked the code - it was changed. The integration part was changed. Feature XYZ was changed. And it stopped working.~Varun committed the code an hour ago~Why did he commit a code that fails? I wondered.This started happening daily. I had no idea why was this happening.The next series of days started with me coming late - 11:50, 12 or later than that. I used to mail Rudra about the update. Sometimes I was able to attend standup, sometime I wasn’t able to. My health started deteriorating.Everyday, Varun used to commit some changes. And it took a hell lot of time to update the project in intellij, go through his changes and do other changes. I was pretty much frustrated.Took 2 wfhs in 2 weeks. Logged in late many times. Had to push myself from bed everyday. Devoted my time to video games than gs work. Lost interest.Then I was given some backend part. I took WFH a day I wasn’t feeling well and learnt about apis stuff. Still some part of me wanted to do well and take interest in the work genuinely.We - all 3 interns received a mail from Rudra which we could never forget. Rudra had showed his ‘Rudra’ roop. The mail said -“You guys are not taking the work seriously. WFHs are not to be taken for granted. So many WFHs and late loggings. Not at all serious about your work. You guys need to have deliverables by the end of this month.I don’t care, work for your career not mine.”I was shocked. The friendly, giggling Rudra! I remembered the first time I met him. And the mail was quite a shock to all of us.Late loggings were targeted at me.WFHs for another one.But… Tejas? What did he do?As far as I remember, he was a hard working guy. Always on time. Never missed a standup. What did he do to receive the mail?Days after that, Varun took four wfhs in a row. Rudra was quiet. Nisha only came like twice in a week, Rudra said nothing.Why us? Why the interns? I wondered.One day I stayed at office till 8pm. I could hear Rudra talking about ‘The Elegant User’s App’ over a phone call.“We are building it again since the last UI was in angular. We wanted it in React.” he said to somebody over the call.Throughout my whole intern, I had one doubt in my mind.The app on which I was working upon was already built by someone and was functional too. But my manager wanted it to be built again since he wanted us to use a new technology.What’s the difference even if angular was used? What’s the need of rebuilding the app again from scratch? I wondered.And the next words I heard shattered me.“Yeah, Varun is working with some intern on ‘The Elegant User’s App’.”What did he say?The last two months were fully devoted to the UI. I went back in time.“Shilpi, if you want any help - Varun would be able to for this project.I was made to believe that it was an independent project, which it never was. I worked my ass off for three months only to hear that I am ‘some intern’ working under Varun and helping him building the UI.I got depressed.It was Holi’s festival - the festival of colours. I never really celebrated holi, hated to be coloured all over. We had a group for our department, and I wished everyone a “Happy Holi!”.Tejas replied with a “Happy holi” too.“Happy Forest Day” - stated an image I received on whatsapp. It was from Rudra. On the whatsapp group. This was his reply for “Happy Holi”.It's okay, don't respect our festival. But atleast don't disrespect it. Why was there even a need for reply?Needless to say, I didn’t go to office that day as sign of rebel (we didn’t have holiday on holi). Varun was already doing WFH. The “Happy Forest Day” frustrated me.Why Rudra why. You are better than that.“Niharika (name changed) is leaving GS” somebody whispered.Niharika, a very smart lady was in our department. She was mentoring an intern and sounded quite knowledgeable. Her sudden decision of leaving GS came as a shock to everyone.I had a last chat with her only when everyone was away for lunch. She had refused her farewell too I guess. She came to me and we had a decent chat. I asked her the reason of leaving. She wanted to switch the team maybe but it was taking a long time. Sweet and smart is all I could say for her. She had done work with JPMC & Morgan Stanley (US) and held a green card. A dedicated worker.After the lunch, she had a long meeting with Rudra. She was too firm with her decision.After she left, someone told me she bitched about many people in the team - specially Rudra. I was really sad. GS lost a good employee that day. And maybe, due to politics.Next day, GS was having an orientation for all new campus hires. It was one hell of a day. World-class hotel stay and world-class orientation.Varun was going out to the new office for 2 weeks. For some work.4th monthBefore Varun had left for the new office, he had asked me to attend telephonic standups for our team from 3–3:30. Now I used to attend 2 standups - the department one, and the team one. Full time waste activities!He had also asked me to get details of a task from Raghav and get it completed. I messaged him and he said he will be there at my desk in 5 min. Well, he never came. I asked him 2–3 times more to which he sent me a random link. I was disheartened and had nothing to do for 2 weeks.One day Rudra called me to fix some errors which he wasn’t able to fix by himself. He said he spent the whole night trying to fix those but didn’t know how to.I came to his desk. Those were linting errors!After having 10 years of experience, and you don’t even know what they are! Even if you know, please try to google. He was not getting what those line numbers represent. I explained him everything and fixed those.Soon, we got mails from hr regarding our joining dates and NAPA training, which is held in New York. I told the HR about my case, that I have courses left in college and I won’t be able to join on 3rd june.“Can I go to the training and join later after 12th july - when my courses are done” I asked.“No, you need to join as FTE. We will process your visa in june and you’ll go during july first week”“Okay” I replied.“Try to make your college understand, it’s important” is all she said.Next day, I refused. My college will never agree for me to take 2 week vacation during summer term.Rudra received a call from HR. I knew it was regarding me.He took me outside the cabin and asked why did I opted out of NAPA training. I told him everything - how my degree would be affected. He was ready to give WFH for 2 months. I was shocked. Again.Rudra was the most unpredictable mysterious guy I ever met. He was good and bad, at the same time. 2 months is a long time - and he agreed to give me WFH! He earned my respect.Then there was second meeting with Rudra. He told me everything - the work I’ll do as an FTE. Also, he never left a single moment he could get to brag about himself.“You will be working under Varun. He will be the team lead. Your work is XYZ-AHSH-PPOS…..”“Be as mature as me. I can make complex things simple easily. Learn it from me.” he said.Varun. No!!The silent guy. Who took away all the presentations. Even during our team standups over calls, he used to answer when some guy asked me about the project. My code was changed everyday. All the torture I faced last month. And now- I’ll be working under him. Wow.I told Rudra - how my code was changed everyday, how I was not told about the changes Varun did in the backend and still expected my code would run successfully. He listened to me for a while and then said -“When I was a NAPA, I used to ensure that I get 0 review comments”“I don’t get review comments, Rudra. My code gets changed, and it’s hard to understand it everyday without help of Varun.”“It’s a good thing, right? You will learn something from what the change he does. It’s good for you.”Cool. I have to look at the new code and somehow “learn without doing”. Interesting.I worked till 9 pm that day. Before Rudra left, he smiled at me sarcastically.“Shilpi, still working?”“Yeah Rudra, I came little late today.”“Varun changing your code and you changing his code.!”“Yes. That’s what is happening.”And then, he laughed maniacally.This was not the first time he did this. He used to laugh at me sarcastically many times after giving me the UI project.Next week, Varun was here. My virtual desktop was not working and I had no idea why. Called help-desk 5 times that day.“REBOOT!”“TRY IT FROM A DIFFERENT MACHINE!”“IT SHOWS ‘AVAILABLE’ ON MY MACHINE!”was all the response I got from 5 different help-desk-assistants.Took a day off the next day. Saw a mail. Varun had given presentation to our MD that day. UI presentation, which was supposed to be given by me.Next week, same schedule. Help-desk people failed miserably.I tried remote desktop and was able to open my outlook. My inbox was full of -“DISK CAPACITY OVER 95%! CLEAN IT!”I got it. But in order to clean it, I had to login to the virtual computer which I wasn’t able to. It was a deadlock.Soon I was assigned a new virtual computer. My whole local setup - was erased.My whole enthusiasm had turned to ashes at that point. Came late, went early. Stopped attending stand-ups. Late Loggings. WFHs. OOO. No updates. No weekly updates. Nothing to do next since Raghav didn’t help. Frustrated as hell.Our department was hiring more and more people. I had nowhere to sit. No one to talk to.The only friend I had in bengaluru left 2 weeks ago.Please note that I’ve nothing against GS. The management there is really good, they care about their employees. I don’t think any company could’ve given me 2 months WFH and I do respect Rudra a lot for that!The experience may vary from person to person, someone may find GS a very good place, based on the traits he/she has or the team he is working with. But for a shy person like me, who loves to code sitting at the corner of the room - GS is not the place. It was me who was not able to adapt to the culture there.This answer was written by me when I was still an intern. I had no idea what this could do to my life.Next day after I wrote this, I was called by the Head HR of Employee Relations in GS - Devika. I thought she had called me in order to discuss why am I choosing signNow over Goldman but this wasn’t the case.“I read your answer on Quora about Goldman..”“I’ll remove it!” I replied with the speed of light.“No..I don’t want you to take it down, Just tell me the issues you had”And she pretended to listen. Both of us knew why she called me here - to take the answer down.“See, these days many people are on social media and it is affecting how people see us. Probably, some interns wouldn’t want to work with us after reading the answer. Therefore I want you to remove it”“Also, please remember this meeting is confidential. DO NOT tell anyone from your team about it!” she said just before I left.And that was it. I deleted this answer.I saw Rudra’s text on my whatsapp. He asked whether I have a desk to sit, and when will I signNow on my desk. I knew something was fishy since he never ever bothered about.I finished the work and went home.The next day, I woke up to 10 calls from the HR and lots of messages. I asked what happened.I told her I have already deleted the answer, but there was something else. I wasn’t able to login from home. My remote desktop was taken away from me and I had no idea why.And then, came Monday.13th May 2019The day started off with my phone full of Devika’s texts. She insisted that I directly come to the meeting room first instead of going to the GIR cabin.I went to her cabin where she was sitting. And soon the harassment started.“What was your motive behind putting such kind of answers on quora, tell me what was in your mind”“I am sorry, Devika. I’ve already taken them down.”“Didn’t you knew about the firm’s policy? You knew it very well right? Still you put the experience on Quora?”“I was frustrated. So much that it didn’t occur to me at that time. But yes, I knew it.”She wrote it down on a paper.“You put it on social media, and don’t expect your manager to read it? Wake up! Everyone in your dept knows what you did okay! You are always saying that ‘don’t inform my manager about it’.. you know what, infact Rudra only informed us about this. He was the one who forwarded the answer.”I sighed. He knew about it the whole time. Still acted as friendly on thursday.“You can take action against me if you want to. I can’t say anything else.”“We are a very big firm. Many people are there writing these kind of negative - one sided answers. We don’t care”If she didn’t care, why was I sitting here?“I have talked to both Rudra and Varun. Now I know about their perspectives too. Did you inform your manager that you were on leave? No, you didn’t.”“Yes, I was really depressed and woke up at 5 eve..”“You were completely one-sided in your answer. Such a judgemental answer it was! You never wrote what you did!” she exclaimed.“Devika, I did. I wrote I was depressed and was late for standups. I wrote that I took WFH and..”“That was completely in another way!” she interrupted.And then she gave me a tough look.“I have tracked down your whole information, when do you come and leave, wfh etc. I don’t think it’s too much. You were also 1 hour late on the GS event, I heard”I wasn’t. What was she saying?“No, I was a minute late. You can ask my friend who was sitting there.”“Also, you were absent on 4 presentations Varun gave, right?”I was shocked. What did she just say? I was present in 3 of them, I remembered. Now I felt something was really wrong. Varun probably gave her false information about me.“No, I was there for 3 of them” I replied in a low voice.“And you weren’t allowed to give?” She raised her eyebrows.“I didn’t ask him, neither did he offer.. he just took the chair and..Did Varun said I was absent? I wasn’t!” I defended myself.“Oh yes you weren’t, I know. When did I say you were absent? You are just misunderstanding me” she replied and wrote down some points.And now she started lying too about things she said earlier! I was shocked to the core.“They said bad things about me, didn’t they.” I asked.“No, infact they praised you for technical aspects. ‘She did all her tasks which we assigned.’ ‘Used to find solutions of the problem till the very end.’” she read it from the paper she had.But what about the other aspects? I was sure they had said something worse about me. I wondered what was that except me coming late.“GS-UI-LIBRARY!!” she exclaimed.“This is what you wrote about the library. Seriously!”I looked down. I couldn’t say anything except sorry.“Rudra even let you choose jersey for cricket match, didn’t he?”“Yes he did.” I sighed.“What you think what made your experience bad? Was it yourself? Why put it on social media, and didn’t contact us. What about the HCM?”I was late and silent. The only faults.“Does anybody in your team knows about it?” she asked hoping that nobody knows.“No, just me and the interns.” I replied.“And what did you write? Niharika left because of politics..? Did you talk to her? Who told you?” she almost shouted.“I got to know that from a teammate.” I replied in low tone.“So you will put anything you hear on social media??” she tried to overpower me.“If I were your signNow HR and I read this answer on Quora.. you know I’d have..” Devika scolded in a rude tone.She would have taken my offer back. That’s what she meant.“I have already deleted it , Devika. I said sorry, what else can I do? ” I almost cried.“These things never happened with me at signNow. But people here..”I broke down. Couldn’t speak much.“What even if you deleted? 1000s of people saw it. All the people on your floor saw it. They may have copied it, downloaded it. It had so confidential information!”“And yeah, put this conversation there too!!” She said in a very rude tone.“I won’t. You know I won’t.” I whispered.“Anyways Shilpi, now it’d be too awkward for you to go there. We have already stopped your remote access. We don’t want you to work anymore. Since you’ve already rejected the offer too, no discussion related to it. You can submit the id card to me.”“Okay.”I cried a lot in the cab. Rudra knew it all the time. Why didn’t he himself fire me instead of sending a rude HR. And those two also lied a lot about me. The tone of HR was totally different when I met her on Thursday. And today she was really harassing me.It took me a while to understand - all this was planned by Rudra. He choose the rudest and senior-most HR to deal with my case and harass me, just to get back at me.2 interns were joining today and space was very less in the small GIR cabin. And he knew very well I completed all my work the last week itself. Win-Win situation for Rudra!Varun and Rudra lied to HR. It was evident from the way she treated me. I was made to be feel like a garbage - just because I was late at the office!I cried for an hour. And then, I edited and restored this answer.Next day I came to know none of the interns or people in my team knew about this! I was fired secretly. The HR lied the whole time.All because Rudra didn’t want to see my face in GIR!Do I fear them? Not at all.“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.” ― Sidney Sheldon (if tomorrow comes)Many people want me to take this answer down or go anonymous. I have done nothing wrong. Those who have, they should hide their faces behind “anonymous” mask.If GS has some problem with the answer, they are free to take action against me. I am not bonded by any legal agreement and atleast deserved decent exit process.

Hello Friends. Today I am going to share my Wipro placement experience. I assure you will learn a lot from my experience. In every section, I will also give you some tips that will definitely help you if you sit for any placements. First, to know who am I Click here.Wipro usual hires BCA/BSC students under the WILP/WIMS program. Under this, you will be able to complete your Masters i.e MTECH from One of the premier institutes of India i.e Bits Pilani.For this, you have to sign a service agreement of 5 yrs. Yes, you have read it right. Wipro allowed you to do Mtech after BCA/BSC.Wipro opens its hiring under this program multiple times in a year. So, you will get many chances to crack the job offer by Wipro.NOTE:- DONT REGISTER YOURSELF FOR THE PLACEMENT IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO ATTEND.To hire candidates Wipro conducts 3 rounds:-(1)Online test -consists of Maths, Reasoning, English and an essay writing test.(2)Technical Interview.(3)HR Interview.All the rounds will be conducted on the same day.Round 1:-(Online Aptitude test)When I have gone to my venue i.e Dr. BC College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur. as it was a pool campus drive and a crowd of 500 students has arrived for the drive.The test has 60 questions and we were given 60 minutes to solve the questions.Note:- Sometimes there exists negative marking, so solve only those questions that you know correctly.Topics which are important:-For Quantitative Aptitude:(a)Profit & Loss. (Most important topic for all the companies online test )(b)Ratio & proportional.(c)Simple Interest.(d)Compound Interest.(e)Average.(f)Odd Man Out & Series.(g)Time & Distance.(h)Time & Work. (Very Important)For Reasoning:(a)Statement & Conclusion.(b)Number Series.(c)Statement and Argument.(d)Coding & Decoding.(e)Verbal Reasoning.(f)Making Judgement.For English:(a)Synonyms.(b)Antonyms.(c)Unseen Passages.(d)Verb filling.(e)Articles.The questions are a little bit tough. You will have to manage the time very smartly.Note:- ALWAYS STARTS WITH MATHS QUESTIONS. TRY TO SOLVE MATHS PART AT FIRST AS FAST AS YOU CAN BUT DONT DO TOO MANY MISTAKES.After you submit your online test you will have to wait for sometimes, the results are shown directly on the computer screen after you submit your answers.In the same way, my computer screen started showing a message "Congrats you have successfully cleared the online test, click here to proceed.".Essay writing test:-After your click, you will be directed to another page where a Topic will be given to you, and you will have to write an essay on it. The word limit is around 150-180. For this, you will be given 25 minutes.My topic was "Is competition is essential for the success of a person?"Just after submitting the essay, again you will have to wait for a few seconds, the results will be shown on the computer screen. whether we have cleared the first round or not.Note:- Always use the delete button to erase instead to backspace, as because it is counted as a character.A few moments later the screen started showing a message that "You have cleared the first round ". I was very happy after seeing this because Wipro eliminates huge candidates from the online test and I have cleared that round.Only 60 candidates were able to clear the 1st round. Luckily I was one of them. Then all the selected candidates were taken into the waiting room where one by one candidate are called for their technical interview and after waiting around 1 hour my name was called.Round 2:-(Technical Interview)Me: May I come in Sir?Interviewer: Yes.Me: Good Afternoon Sir.Interviewer: Afternoon. Have a seat.Me: Thank you, Sir.Interviewer: Give your CV.Me: Handed over my CV to him.Interviewer: Introduce yourself.Me: Answered.Interviewer: Then he started asking me questions like explain inheritance and its types, what is a friend function and how you declare it, what is a pointer, the difference between a pointer variable and reference variable.Me: Answered.Interviewer: Then he started asking some questions based upon my project.Me: Answered.Interviewer: Tell me about your hobbies.Me: Answered.Interviewer: Ok Abhishek wait outside, results will be announced after some time.Me: Thank you, Sir.I was very lucky that the interviewer had not asked any programs from me. Even the interview was very short and easy. After waiting a few hours results are announced. I was one of the 30 students who have qualified the technical interview and then one by one they started calling the names of the selected candidate for the final round i.e HR INTERVIEWNote:- Always stay focus toward the interviewer even if he/she is not looking toward you. The interviewer checks your patience at the time of your interview.Round 3:-(HR Interview)When I entered the room, I saw the HR was a young lady. I was very nervous at that time because many times I had been eliminated after my HR interview.Me: May I come in Maam?HR: Yes.Me: Good Afternoon Maam.HR: Afternoon. Have a seat.Me: Thank you, Maam.HR: Introduce yourself.Me: Answered.HR: So Abhishek who is in your family?Me: Answered.HR: She started asking some questions about my brother because he itself working in Wipro for the last 3 yrs.Me: Answered.HR: Are you able to reallocate?Me: Answered.HR: Do you have any other offers?Me: Answered. (At that time I had 3 other offers.)HR: Lastly she asked me some questions based upon my essay.Me: Answered.HR: Ok Abhishek it was nice talking to you. You will receive an mail if you are shortlisted.Me: Thank you Maam.The whole process was over. I was very happy because all the rounds have gone very good and I was pretty confident that I will be shortlisted and hence so happened I received the confirmation of the same after 3 days that I had been shortlisted for Wipro.Note: Just be confident at the time of your interviews and try to answer in English. If you clear the 1st round then there exist the maximum possibilities that you will be shortlisted.Thank you

Well, you can start by becoming a good actor, which is not exactly an overnight process. I don't know where you are located, but there's probably a decent acting teacher or group class in your area. There are several acting techniques that are popular now (e.g. Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, etc.) and it doesn't much matter which one you use. The key points are:  learning how to "be truthful under imaginary circumstances," and developing the ability to make strong character choices and committing to them. As one of my teachers put it: "A trained actor makes choices; an untrained actor makes guesses."Classes in improv are also invaluable. They will help you switch between different approaches to your character if the client or director or casting agent is looking for something different from what you initially offer them. Beyond learning general acting skills, there are other skills specific to voice acting, whether it's acting for advertising, animation, audiobooks, voice mail systems, corporate narration, e-learning, trailers and promos, "explainer" web videos, etc. For that you should find a respected coach, someone with whom you can study either in person or remotely (e.g. phone or Skype). A word to the wise: there are many less-than-reputable companies out there, who will gladly take your money and promise you all kinds of impossible things ("In just four easy lessons, you'll be ready to record a professional demo that will have agents falling all over themselves to sign you up!"). Ask for references, check out online discussion boards to see if they have a sleazy reputation, and--smartest move of all--join the World-Voices Organization, Inc. (WoVO).  A reputable coach would not even think of letting you record a demo until you both agree you're ready, which may be many months down the line. Your demo, by the way, is absolutely the most important tool you have for getting an agent. Nobody in this business will ever ask you for a CV. They want to hear what you can do with your voice, and that's exactly what a good demo is for. It's a whole subject in itself, and thus outside the scope of this answer. But if you remember nothing else, know that recording an amateurish demo is the surest way to sabotage your career before it's even begun.Other (free) things to do: read aloud every single day. It doesn't matter if it's a morning newspaper (if you still have one of those), a magazine ad, or a passage from a novel off your bookshelf. Get used to the sound of your own voice--in fact, record some of these reading sessions. You can use the "voice memos" app on your smartphone for starters. If you're like most people, you won't initially like how you sound--don't worry, you'll get over it. Try reading the same passage several times, but with a different underlying emotion each time. If you have an ear for dialects, try them out too. Read as if you're a child, a teenager, middle-aged or elderly (one of the great advantages of voice acting over the "regular" kind is that your biological age is much less important than your ability to convincingly portray a character at any age--that and no head shots required!). Read as if you're a dog, a donkey, or an inanimate object (for some projects I've voiced a police whistle and a recycling bin, as well as playing cats, parrots and a variety of aliens). See if you can create a full-fledged character and mood that you can maintain for the entire piece. When you listen back, it should be glaringly obvious if your concentration has faltered and your character has slipped. All voice acting--even if it's narrating the most boring medical narration you can imagine--involves getting into a character and making it sound like you're speaking your very own thoughts, thoughts that have just now spontaneously popped into your head. If it sounds instead like you're reading something off a page (even though that is, of course, exactly what you're doing!), you've failed. Reading without sounding like you're reading is a lot harder than it sounds, but it's truly the indispensable skill in all of voice acting.  Your initial efforts are sure to sound pretty laughable. But don't erase them. Come back every few weeks to an older effort, especially one that you thought was pretty good at the time. If you're progressing and your ear is getting more sophisticated, you should be able to hear the flaws.  A key goal that should be the end result of all this training, but that is often overlooked, is finding your own voice.  Nobody cares if you can do a spot-on Sponge Bob or Donald Duck or Stewie--those positions have already been filled. What they don't have is you. There's no easy way to achieve this. It's something that will take time. But if you can get there, an agent will sit bolt upright when listening to your demo and think "Holy crap! We don't have one of those!" Understand that voice acting, like all acting, is a business as well as a vocation. You have to absolutely know deep down that this is what you want to do, come hell or high water. You'll have to spend a great deal of time, effort and (yes) money just to get your skills up to anything resembling  a professional level. And once you're there--you'll need to train even more! And while the initial outlay for a home recording studio is nowhere near as expensive as it used to be, you'll still need the basics: computer, microphone (and an interface between the two), as well as some basic sound treatment for your recording environment.  There's free recording software (for example, Audacity) that is available for any OS. But understand that eventually you'll need to upgrade each component, which can be quite expensive indeed. And no matter how good an actor you may become, it will mean nothing if you don't learn how to run a business (Now that's a whole subject in itself!). Most of your time will not be spent acting, but instead on hustling to find people to hire you, and networking like mad. Are you a shy introvert? That's fine (you'd be surprised how many actors are!), but realize that you'll never get anywhere unless you can push past the shyness and put yourself out there so the world can see (and hear) you. This is where the majority of voice actors get discouraged and end up quitting. Like most freelancing jobs, your business will have peaks and valleys, and at the beginning the peaks will be few and far between. But if you're truly committed to this, setbacks and dry spells will not be enough to deter you.  If you're willing to do all that, you might just be able to become a good (and working) voice actor. Then, if you work with great people, never stop learning, and be generous to those around you, there's even a minuscule chance that you could someday be a great one! Good luck!

Anything that helps save me time is worth my time. When you have over 300 books in one e-reader device — like I do on my Kindle — you cannot afford to migrate one book at a time unless it is absolutely necessary. There IS a way to deliver all your books to your new Kindle device which even the Amazon Customer Service are not trained in or do not think of. I had two of them tell me it is “not possible”. Read to the end to find out how!Basics of Books vs. DocsIt’s no secret Amazon wants you to buy all your books from them. So your ebooks purchased online from Amazon are called “Books”. All your other readings, books, PDFs and .mobi files are called “Docs”. You must send these Docs to Amazon Cloud, NOT your Kindle device (more on that soon).If you buy all your ebooks through Amazon, your books will be displayed on, but not downloaded into, your Kindle device. Your books will not automatically “sync” across devices in the sense of having them downloaded and ready to read offline. If you don’t have many purchases, you can just download by clicking on each book: each one gets “queued” for download; when download finishes, the book title gets a black “tick” next to it indicating it’s ready for offline reading.If you have many non-Amazon books (called “Docs”) which you wish to migrate to your new Kindle device, then follow my time-saving productivity tips (which Amazon Customer Service may disagree with!):#1 First of all, whatever you do, DON’T transfer your Docs from your computer into your Kindle device using a USB cable! Why? Because those Docs will be trapped “in prison” in your device. They will not sync to your Cloud, other devices or Kindle app. You cannot access your notes and highlights outside of the device. They will NOT be saved for future devices. When you buy a new Kindle, those docs and their notes and highlights will go to the grave with your own Kindle.For a reader like me who studies as I read, that’s a big loss. I once found out the hard way by doing a software update which erased all my highlights. Amazon’s customer service assured me all highlights will be saved, but it turns out not if the Docs were transferred by USB cable.#2 Make sure all your Docs are stored in the Amazon Cloud. The way to do this is to send them from a pre-approved email account to your unique email@kindle.com. Follow these steps to set up the emails:Sign in to your Amazon account. Make sure it’s the Amazon in your country. For us in Australia it is Amazon dot com dot au: Shop online for Electronics, Apparel, Toys, Books, DVDs & moreUnder your Profile, click open the dropdown menu and select “Manage Your Content and Devices”Select “Preferences”Scroll down to bottom and click “Personal Documents Settings”You will find both “Send-to-Kindle E-mail Settings” and “Approved Personal Document E-mail List”. Follow the prompts and set up your emails.#3 Once your emails are set up, send your documents to your Amazon Cloud using your unique Kindle.com email.TIP: if you’re sending a PDF which you want optimized for Kindle (to enable you to adjust font size, highlight text, etc), put in the subject the word “convert” and nothing else. This service is “experimental” and Amazon does not guarantee all PDFs will convert properly.TIP 2: If you have a Kindle model that has 3G, Amazon may charge you for receiving documents to your Kindle.com email via 3G. If you can wait, do it over Wifi.PRO TIP: if you know how to convert your PDF to .mobi first, you can send a .mobi file to your unqiue Kindle.com email without the need for conversion. I found 80% of my PDFs convert fine via email with subject “convert”.#4 Once all your Books and Docs are on Amazon Cloud, you CAN bulk deliver all the ebooks to your Kindle device!Go back to “Manage Your Content and Devices”.Select the first option “Content”.On the left side, you will see “Show” with a dropdown menu.You can show either “Books” or “Docs”, but you cannot show both at the same time. So you will need to do this twice to migrate ALL your ebooks to your device.Under “Select” tick at least one book, then go up to the button “Select All” and press it. (Pro Tip: if your book list exceeds the browser page, “Select All” does not select all. Scroll down to “show more” and you will see the unselected books.)Go to the button “Deliver” on the left side and press it.It will ask you which device you want to “Deliver” the ebooks you just ticked. Your default device appear first. Choose and click. By this action, Amazon will tell your chosen device to download every ebook stored in the Amazon Cloud.Rather than clicking one book at a time to download, ALL your books will be delivered in bulk or transferred in-one-shot to your Kindle!This is the fastest way I know to set up your new Kindle for offline reading of your entire library.Read my Quora answer to, “Why don’t my files deliver to my Kindle device?”My “14 Reasons to read books on Kindle”.Read my ebooks on Amazon!