S. J. Engineering

Our workshop, S. J. Engineering, is located at No. 1 Grgen Road in Nayandhalli. It’s right off Mysore Road, which is always packed with traffic. You can hear the buses and trucks rumbling by all day long. We do engineering work here, mostly small parts and repairs that people bring in. The shop is full of metal scraps and heavy tools. It’s definitely not the kind of place where you’d want to wear a nice suit. There is grease on almost everything, and the floor is concrete. We started out with just a couple of machines and now we have a few more, but it’s still a small operation. My hands are usually covered in oil by ten in the morning. We don't have a secretary or a fancy phone system. If the phone rings, whoever is closest to it picks it up. Most of our customers are from the industrial units nearby or guys who need something fixed for their trucks. It’s a loud place. Between the grinders and the welding, you have to shout to be heard sometimes. We close up when the sun goes down, usually. It’s a simple life. We don't spend money on fancy brochures or things like that. If we do a good job on a gear or a bracket, the customer comes back eventually. That’s pretty much how we’ve stayed in business all these years on Grgen Road.