Types of Employees

Life takes a big step and before I realize, I am in the corporate world. Expectation of getting placed in MNCs were ruined by the college time pass department (training and placement department) but got a good company to start my career and now I am experiencing the life of IT employee. I am not doing anything special like coding or deployment or administrating servers and in fact I am not even doing any technical work.

In this brief time, I have experienced many things which will surely help me in future. First thing that I learned is that employees can be classified into three types i.e. doers, push-to-do, and chewing-gums. You will never find these kinds of classification in any books and hence I am describing them briefly. The doers are self-motivating workaholic types of person who always want work and if you closely observe then you feel that they are contributing more than 40 percent to total productivity. 

Second kinds of peoples are those who require a push to do something. This push may be pressure or jealousy or money or any other thing. They will not show their talent as they think it can lead to exploitation. Third kinds of people are special employees who got placed due to their contacts and hence avoid working. They are like chewing gums for the company and company desperately wants to get rid of them. I worked with all of them and I finally able to learn few things –

First I learn how to finish work well in time with a vision that it will give more time for personal skill development. Obviously, I learnt it from first type.  Then I learn the art of procrastination and crisis management from second type. Finally, I learnt the most important lesson i.e. always maintain contact as it will make your life easy. No matter how small or how big the company is you will find these employees. If you are having these creatures around you and if you are getting irritated by their work then always remember that you can learn few things from them as well. Sometimes the things are not-to-do kind of.  I hope I would learn from these environments so that I can clearly define what to do and what not to do.  

Fading charm

Iphone6 is arrived, Google is planning to launch its next set of smart phones, HRD ministry is planning to start more IIT’s and IIM’s, ISRO successfully test Mars Orbit mission, Bollywood starts are preparing for more 100 cr movies; everything is happening at a rapid pace and only thing which I found stuck is my own blog.  Its like decades have passed since I wrote anything on my blog.  Am I too busy? Honestly no. Have I run out of the notions? I wish I could.  Then why this is happening?

The only answer is fading charm. When I started writing, I view everything with a unique vision and I always engaged myself in searching such things but as the time progresses, the things around me are fading charm. If you too observe the things, then you will also feel the same. As we are upgrading ourselves, the things around us are losing charm. If you don’t believe its true then just observe the activities on social media. Whenever, you saw some post related with nostalgic memories you will sense increased traffic while new and improved things aren’t face that much of attention. If you are having your first cell phone with you then just take out and keep it in your hands for 2 minutes and then you will realize how precious that cell phone is for you.  I am not saying new things are bad or previous things are better but I feel that nowadays we are less connected with the things around us compared to previous times.

Moreover, the next generation is also showing syndromes of the same and they care less about their own things. Sometimes, I wish I could live a life backwards to relive those moments again. I hope I get emotionally connected with the new things soon. 

NIGHT SHIVERS

Night shivers in the winter winds

No one wants her in their house

She is wandering alone

Looking for a shelter

Street dogs beset her

And she is sobbing near the street lamp

I opened my window

Asked her to come in

She refuses dejectedly

I tried to convince her

But she was persistent

As I asked for reason

She said you will made me prostitute

As you made other helpless females

I had no answer to this question

As I was the part of this world

She left me and said

If you want give shelter

Give it to a girl who is in need

I had stars, sky, and sometime moon

So, you my friend help them rather

Then helping me

And she lost in haze

I think over it and

Conclude that she was right.

DREAM

I saw a blur face in my dreams

With gloaming background and eyes dim

She came to me and surrender

I felt her breath on my shoulder

I was not in a state to say

And she went far away

I could not recognize her torment face

As she lost in the haze

From then, each night

Before closing the eye

I look down to sky

And pray to god

Please gave me that dream once more

And this time i will not open my eyes for sure….

Confession of a perplexed mind

We are not born to be perfect but we always want to become perfect.  With so many options to choose and with so many lucrative offers available most of us tend to swing between options and eventually ended up doing unworthy activity. I am also facing the same issue. I am not finding enough courage to take one decision and stick on to it. Whenever I came close to making a decision thoughts of failures start entering my brain and left me in perplexed state. Am I in need of psychologist or it happens with everyone? This question kept haunting me though I tried to avoid it but still it is in the back of my mind.

As all of you do not know about my background so I am giving a brief about me in here. I am management student looking to get a good opportunity to begin my professional career. Prior to that, I hold an engineering degree but I do not think it will help me in finding the suitable job. I developed an interest in finance and management in last few years but my interest is constantly challenged by my childhood dream of becoming a Bureaucrat. While I was doing engineering, I developed habit of penning down my emotions and learn several forms of Urdu poetry. I started 4-5 novels but eventually none is completed. I was working as a part-time writer but soon I fed up of it.  In the process of testing my hands on everything, I once tried my hands on becoming an entrepreneur and my IT service provider partnership firm was doing well until frictions amongst the partner put me out of the business. Now I am in a state where I am jack of all trade and master of none.

Whenever I make a move of concentrating on public service commission exams, I got scared as I think if I do not get a job now it will be difficult for me to get it in future. I am MBA fresher and after a year or so, I will be a one-year-old fresher, which makes job finding even more difficult. If I concentrate on finding the job, I want a job in MNC and I do not have any calls from any MNCs + I will not be able to study for PSC exams. I have 2 opportunities to start my career and both companies are start-ups. One company is of financial services while other is of IT services. I have experience in handling IT services (as I was running one), while I am having a bit of interest in financial services.  I hate to admit the fact that I am just becoming a jack of all trade and I do not want to be the one. 

Sometimes, when I see my predicament it literally made me cry. I am not all settled and there is no possibility of settling in near future.  I don’t know what to do and if you can help me out in suggesting anything or help me out in gathering courage to stick to one decision then please write to me at   - vishwasnyaik@gmail.com , your advice may become useful for me.  Thanks for giving the time hope I came out with this misery and soon write a post with solution.  Till then take care!

JOY OF WRITING

Writing your heart out is nothing but a satisfaction which every writer achieved. After entering into the professional writing world a writer may stop writing what he wants and instead of this he start writing what readers want. Eventually he lost interest in writing and it becomes a sheer work for him.  Those who keeps on stressing about ‘love what you do’ fails to solve this issue as they keep on stressing that it just a phase and the issue will sort out soon.   I was going through this phase for a long time and this irks me a lot.   I stop writing professional contents and start doing silly mistakes. Then I decide to take a break from writing and the break is still not over.  Though I am writing the contents but it is not matching my previous quality.

Sometimes, I feel ashamed when I saw my writing work as I consider it way lower than my standard.  I used to have my own way of expressing the thoughts and now I don’t have any.  I somehow manage to write but what about pleasure of writing? What about getting the satisfaction of penning down the emotions? I was actually not thinking about this stuff until this morning. Today when I was doing my daily internet ritual (scrolling my Facebook wall for no reason) and I found a post from one of my good friend (http://apparitionofmine.blogspot.in/2014/06/have-you-retired-from-blogging.html). She too writes well and she also stopped writing.  Her post really made me think that do I really retired from writing?

Well, statistics suggests I do but it’s not true.  I just need to start writing the things I want to write irrespective of what readers wants to read. Though readers are important to me but I know readers will enjoy reading the things which directly came from the heart. They will feel connected and probably understand my predicament.  I don’t know how long I will be able to do it but I would surely try it out.  I will also advice the same to my friends and to every writer who showed initial writing spark but fails to convert it into an eternal fire.  Hope no writer gets retired from writing before retiring from the life.

Thanks to Noopur and her friend for churning my brain and provoking me to write the post. God bless you! 

Be patient without procrastination

 It’s been month since I post anything on my blog. It’s not because I was super busy past days or some other obvious responses. I was waiting for the time to change so that I can decide the future course of action. My life was a mess and I don’t know how to fix it. Many of my friends suggested me that you need some break and everything will automatically fix.  Like an obedient patient I just did what my closed ones prescribed me.

Initially it was nice as I was getting plenty of free time but later it turned out to be disaster. I started questioning my abilities, I unconsciously developed a habit of saying no to everything which is not a cake walk and on top of that I started procrastination.  At 24 you are supposed to realize goals and make further plans to your future but I was not doing anything. Months have passed but agony continues.

 Few days back I wasn’t even able to figure out my potential and my goals. I was lost in the process of giving time and wasn’t able to find any way. Finally, I switched myself to old mode to figure out what was happening. I had a conversation with me late night which leads me to a temporary solution and soon after it; I start gaining my abilities to create plans.  Moreover, now I am able to figure out what exactly went wrong with ‘be patient theory’.  

 The key behind this theory is that you need to do the things which you love and you cannot stop doing it. If you loves to read or write continue doing it even if you are practicing patient theory. Once you stopped doing it, you will start feeling an empty circle around you and soon this circle will create a void in your brain. It will restrain you in doing anything and you will soon become a procrastinator.  You need continue doing the things you loved and start having a conversation with yourself. Nobody knows you better than you and hence always have a word with yourself.  

So, if you are also planning to test ‘be patient theory’ then keep these things in mind. Else you will end up in same state as mine.