Career and Job are probably one of the top items that are discussed amongst B-school grads especially the recent ones and I have written quite a bit on this topic. Anyway, was on the phone with a friend where we basically listed out why our jobs sucked and finally came to the conclusion why we wouldnt shift out if given a chance....
Think of it...everyone has a reason to be unhappy in their jobs....
The IT Management Grad says..hey i get paid peanuts and I do a lot of crap work including being secretary to the bosses...the sales guy in Jharkhand in the hotshot FMCG company does not have to look beyond the mosquitos and the stinking loos....the investment banker in Tokyo and London looks outside the office at 2am and finds that the rest of the world is partying this Saturday evening....the consultants are sick and tired of adding more bullet points to a PPT slide and doing the bit in a new city everyday....
Oh...if we thought this was the end of it...the schoolmates who decided to save the world with their medical skills look at the engineers and go on...you guys have been earning for some million years now...and i am still mugging from my books...
But then would I want to change from my 9-6 IT job..no saturday work..trips abroad...do what you want out of office....probably not...Would a doctor want to relinquish the satisfaction of helping a human being or saving a life...definitely not... Would the sales mgr want to not have the cheap thrills of exceeding his targets...probably not...
Yet we keep looking at the rest of the world and keep getting confused about how and what it could have been... but the truth, it is as it should be....
The guy upstairs truly has a wierd sense of humor....Maybe the whole thing about 'true calling' is just an overrated one....
hmm..just another cynical day....
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