Hi all..By looking at the frequency of my posts I guess all of you must have guessed by now what kind of a blogger or for that matter how shallow a person I am. After numerous attempts of starting to write something, today I am determined to post something. Not that I have come across something great which I want to discuss, but today I not going back for lunch (no, I am not busy with my work, just don't want to move my ass out of this ac room), so I decided to exercise my fingers.
It has been over a year and half now since I have been working. And gradually, I am starting to realize what great transition I have been through and what all changes I will have to bring in my behaviour to succeed in this corporate jungle. It was not long ago when I was in college and invariably I used to reach late for my classes. When the teacher used to ask for the reason, I would give a smart excuse and enter the class, walking to my seat looking towards every corner of the room, telling myself ,"man u r something!". Unable to answer a question asked by the teacher used to reaffirm our status as cool guys. We used to call our professors by funny names and in some cases, even had serious quarrels which led to suspension of classes for a couple of days. Even when in school, I used to lie my parents, bunk tutions and go out to watch movies. I used to think I was smart enough to do all these under their nose and not giving them the faintest of hints of what I was upto. But then, we had never done all this to hurt anybody or to embarrass anyone. We just enjoyed ourselves and continued doing all this because at the bottom of our heart we had this feeling that no one would take these things to heart as we were "KIDS" and instead would simply laugh at our childishness.
After joining Tata Steel, though I stopped all these mischievous acts but I did not get out of that kiddish phase. I took up my work very seriously, but on days when I did not have any work (which is 3 out of 6 days in a week) I used to reach half an hour late or on days when I had worked the whole night, I would not come the next day. I would log on to orkut thrice a day and would spend a lot of time reading blogs. Most of my colleagues are more than twice my age and I used to take these liberties, expecting them not to mind as I was only half their age. I work in a steel industry where working conditions are very harsh. When I used to work non-stop for 6-7 hours in the shop floor or solve a problem, I used to think that they would come and pat me, saying "good job done, boy". But I never received any such pats or words of praise from my colleagues. Instead, I overheard people calling me "a bit irresponsible".
And now, I am realizing that though I see myself as a 23 year old guy, expecting some liberties because of my age, but the others look at me as a colleague or to be more specific, as their competitor. To my parents I am a kid, to my teachers I am kid but in the office I am another officer. Not that I complain, its just that this transition is becoming a bit difficult for me because I had never expected things to change so rapidly. I may sound a bit stupid, like someone shying away from his duties but the fact is that I have not yet been able to fathom the fact that I am working.
It has been over a year and half now since I have been working. And gradually, I am starting to realize what great transition I have been through and what all changes I will have to bring in my behaviour to succeed in this corporate jungle. It was not long ago when I was in college and invariably I used to reach late for my classes. When the teacher used to ask for the reason, I would give a smart excuse and enter the class, walking to my seat looking towards every corner of the room, telling myself ,"man u r something!". Unable to answer a question asked by the teacher used to reaffirm our status as cool guys. We used to call our professors by funny names and in some cases, even had serious quarrels which led to suspension of classes for a couple of days. Even when in school, I used to lie my parents, bunk tutions and go out to watch movies. I used to think I was smart enough to do all these under their nose and not giving them the faintest of hints of what I was upto. But then, we had never done all this to hurt anybody or to embarrass anyone. We just enjoyed ourselves and continued doing all this because at the bottom of our heart we had this feeling that no one would take these things to heart as we were "KIDS" and instead would simply laugh at our childishness.
After joining Tata Steel, though I stopped all these mischievous acts but I did not get out of that kiddish phase. I took up my work very seriously, but on days when I did not have any work (which is 3 out of 6 days in a week) I used to reach half an hour late or on days when I had worked the whole night, I would not come the next day. I would log on to orkut thrice a day and would spend a lot of time reading blogs. Most of my colleagues are more than twice my age and I used to take these liberties, expecting them not to mind as I was only half their age. I work in a steel industry where working conditions are very harsh. When I used to work non-stop for 6-7 hours in the shop floor or solve a problem, I used to think that they would come and pat me, saying "good job done, boy". But I never received any such pats or words of praise from my colleagues. Instead, I overheard people calling me "a bit irresponsible".
And now, I am realizing that though I see myself as a 23 year old guy, expecting some liberties because of my age, but the others look at me as a colleague or to be more specific, as their competitor. To my parents I am a kid, to my teachers I am kid but in the office I am another officer. Not that I complain, its just that this transition is becoming a bit difficult for me because I had never expected things to change so rapidly. I may sound a bit stupid, like someone shying away from his duties but the fact is that I have not yet been able to fathom the fact that I am working.
