It's the 17th of March 2012. I am already into the sixth month of my professional life. Today out of the blue, I felt like writing about things that I have been through in these five months of my job.
The eighty odd days of training that I underwent with my company gave me glimpses of all moods of life. I was ecstatic one day- when I witnessed several of my college buddies staying in and around my abode; I was very happy on one particular day- when I was put in the highest category for my oral competency; I was moderately happy on a special day- when I greedily devoured on crispy KFC with my pals doing the same around me; I felt deep satisfaction on one occasion- when I was in visible limelight in my learning group and I received considerable attention; I felt mundane on one gloomy day- when, after working for about ten days in a week, the day was still a Thursday; I was displeased. Oh yes I was- when I lost a tie gifted by a very close friend; I was grieved- when I realized I had accidentally broken my guitar; I suffered excruciating pain- when my cough persisted through a month and a half; And I felt homesick a lot many times too. There were many more things that I felt. But this should suffice for now.
The journey through things said above and even more was clearly not a smooth sail. Although I was happy for the greater part, I did see days when I struggled to smile, let alone laugh and make merry. A JOB is a test that evaluates you on whether you are a 'Jackass Or Brave' kind of person. And this test is neither supposed to end on any fortunate day and nor does it keep yielding the same result for a particular person throughout. And the blood-sucking employers out there who have the reputation of providing employment at large are more interested when you turn out to be a jackass in their eyes- so that they can push you to lows from where you can never come up, but whilst showing that they are actually trying to motivate you to climb the ladder of success. By 'success', well, they mean the stage where your pain nerves become dumb and unresponsive to any further magnitude of agony and you start accepting the same as part of a mundane lifestyle.
Being in a job is so fittingly different from being those smart lads back in days of college. There are things that you must have hardly bothered about, being students. A job, however, demands all those things from you and you eventually end up doing them anyhow. Sometimes, with a great deal of scorn. I will enlist some of them for my readers:
1. Absenteeism: Who wouldn't have enjoyed those amazing mass-bunks back in college? It used to be such fun to bunk classes and spend time elsewhere. But a job hardly gives you that opportunity. You are expected to come and serve on all working days and furnish a proper reason if you happen to disobey.
2. Procrastination: One thing that your supervisor or boss wouldn't want you to do the slightest is to procrastinate. You do all your work at the right time and your superior feels he has had a lucky day at office.
3. Punctuality: You are expected to be punctual enough to be in your office before the arrival of your superiors. Leaving at close of day, however, doesn't normally demand your punctuality. The more late you leave, generally the better.
4. Multitasking: If you thought multitasking is when you sip your coffee while watching an interesting game of cricket and simultaneously chatting with pals over internet, you'd be an object of jest in your job premises. You are expected to do your work with brilliance whilst monitoring whether your team member has encountered some problem, whether someone somewhere or anywhere inside the office building has an issue you could help with, whether your superior is in need of something and s/he is expecting someone to get that for her/him, whether the ceiling above leaks, whether the current Government should topple, whether Israel and Iran should call it a day, whether people on earth should really consider staying on Mars a better option and anything and everything.
5. Two Distinct Sexes: A female employee has the privilege of leaving early because of the simple reason that she is female. A male employee, on the other hand, might be asked to do the leftover work of a female colleague and might not be permitted to demand an explanation for the same. Two employees of different sexes cannot suck from two straws that go into the same glass of juice or for that matter do anything of this sort inside the office premises, what with the known fact that they are buddies right from Kindergarten. This again for the simple reason that, there are two distinct sexes on earth.
At least, you wouldn't have bothered in your college had someone pointed out but now you might as well stop talking to the other person fearing your job's in jeopardy.
How easy it is in this world to become a parasite on another being and continue getting all nourishment from the latter without really bothering about your life beyond that! But when you 'stand on your own feet', you have to disengage yourself from your parasitic parent and make yourself fit for a similar parasite. You start realizing your responsibilities and setting up goals in life. Not all of them are met though. And though your life is actually not finished when you start earning (and in some cases, it just begins), yet when you look back at the days when you were students, you invariably feel like saying: 'those were the days, I was perhaps in heaven'.
Notwithstanding blues of working, a job is indeed something mandatory in life. It's nature's way of pointing out 'you are solely responsible for your sustenance'. So complaining is never the solution. You have to keep moving on. Godspeed.
Disclaimer: - These are my views on how a job generally appears to a grad fresh out of college. I won't mind or take offence if you tend to differ.
The eighty odd days of training that I underwent with my company gave me glimpses of all moods of life. I was ecstatic one day- when I witnessed several of my college buddies staying in and around my abode; I was very happy on one particular day- when I was put in the highest category for my oral competency; I was moderately happy on a special day- when I greedily devoured on crispy KFC with my pals doing the same around me; I felt deep satisfaction on one occasion- when I was in visible limelight in my learning group and I received considerable attention; I felt mundane on one gloomy day- when, after working for about ten days in a week, the day was still a Thursday; I was displeased. Oh yes I was- when I lost a tie gifted by a very close friend; I was grieved- when I realized I had accidentally broken my guitar; I suffered excruciating pain- when my cough persisted through a month and a half; And I felt homesick a lot many times too. There were many more things that I felt. But this should suffice for now.
The journey through things said above and even more was clearly not a smooth sail. Although I was happy for the greater part, I did see days when I struggled to smile, let alone laugh and make merry. A JOB is a test that evaluates you on whether you are a 'Jackass Or Brave' kind of person. And this test is neither supposed to end on any fortunate day and nor does it keep yielding the same result for a particular person throughout. And the blood-sucking employers out there who have the reputation of providing employment at large are more interested when you turn out to be a jackass in their eyes- so that they can push you to lows from where you can never come up, but whilst showing that they are actually trying to motivate you to climb the ladder of success. By 'success', well, they mean the stage where your pain nerves become dumb and unresponsive to any further magnitude of agony and you start accepting the same as part of a mundane lifestyle.
Being in a job is so fittingly different from being those smart lads back in days of college. There are things that you must have hardly bothered about, being students. A job, however, demands all those things from you and you eventually end up doing them anyhow. Sometimes, with a great deal of scorn. I will enlist some of them for my readers:
1. Absenteeism: Who wouldn't have enjoyed those amazing mass-bunks back in college? It used to be such fun to bunk classes and spend time elsewhere. But a job hardly gives you that opportunity. You are expected to come and serve on all working days and furnish a proper reason if you happen to disobey.
2. Procrastination: One thing that your supervisor or boss wouldn't want you to do the slightest is to procrastinate. You do all your work at the right time and your superior feels he has had a lucky day at office.
3. Punctuality: You are expected to be punctual enough to be in your office before the arrival of your superiors. Leaving at close of day, however, doesn't normally demand your punctuality. The more late you leave, generally the better.
4. Multitasking: If you thought multitasking is when you sip your coffee while watching an interesting game of cricket and simultaneously chatting with pals over internet, you'd be an object of jest in your job premises. You are expected to do your work with brilliance whilst monitoring whether your team member has encountered some problem, whether someone somewhere or anywhere inside the office building has an issue you could help with, whether your superior is in need of something and s/he is expecting someone to get that for her/him, whether the ceiling above leaks, whether the current Government should topple, whether Israel and Iran should call it a day, whether people on earth should really consider staying on Mars a better option and anything and everything.
5. Two Distinct Sexes: A female employee has the privilege of leaving early because of the simple reason that she is female. A male employee, on the other hand, might be asked to do the leftover work of a female colleague and might not be permitted to demand an explanation for the same. Two employees of different sexes cannot suck from two straws that go into the same glass of juice or for that matter do anything of this sort inside the office premises, what with the known fact that they are buddies right from Kindergarten. This again for the simple reason that, there are two distinct sexes on earth.
At least, you wouldn't have bothered in your college had someone pointed out but now you might as well stop talking to the other person fearing your job's in jeopardy.
How easy it is in this world to become a parasite on another being and continue getting all nourishment from the latter without really bothering about your life beyond that! But when you 'stand on your own feet', you have to disengage yourself from your parasitic parent and make yourself fit for a similar parasite. You start realizing your responsibilities and setting up goals in life. Not all of them are met though. And though your life is actually not finished when you start earning (and in some cases, it just begins), yet when you look back at the days when you were students, you invariably feel like saying: 'those were the days, I was perhaps in heaven'.
Notwithstanding blues of working, a job is indeed something mandatory in life. It's nature's way of pointing out 'you are solely responsible for your sustenance'. So complaining is never the solution. You have to keep moving on. Godspeed.
Disclaimer: - These are my views on how a job generally appears to a grad fresh out of college. I won't mind or take offence if you tend to differ.
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