Its been around 4 months in the Corporate World, and i cant help thinking of how much i miss college life. Nostalgic feelings fill my dreamy head as i wake up every day to reach the save point at the end of the monotonous mission thrown right at my face. Its a difficult transition, from freedom to responsibility, from to sophistication, from whole-hearted laughs to artificial smirks, a transition that I am still a part of, a change that I am accepting.
The funniest thing at work is the IDCard.It is supposed to be worn around our neck, like the tag on clothing apparel in a shopping mall.I'm not sure how you guys take it but it feels very awkward to have it hanging around your neck.I simply prefer to tucking it away in my pocket. The ID card I had at college was used only for cutting my birthday cake once a year, and for exams, just in case the profs wanted to make sure that we did exist on campus, and not figments of imagination developed as a byproduct of their brain storming sessions with the late Fouriers and Laplaces. The IDcard at work must be produced everywhere you go, swiped everytime you enter and exit and if you are lucky enough, u can have privilege to swipe it before and after a pee too!
The next thing that comes to mid at work are status updates. You are given assignments on campus and given a deadline. You submit the assignment, you get marks, and there you go away with a happy A or a comforting B or a sac C. At work, you have stand-up meetings everyday for an hour, a weekly meeting summarizing the daily updates of the entire week and finally a monthly team meeting to summarize the weekly updates. And to be a part of this whole "updating the updated updates" is worse than writing all my CDC compres on the same day.
And once you get started with whatever you are doing, you always have the arduous task of socializing with your surrounding people. There is something wonderful called ragging (or "was" rather). Guess ur too old for that once you start working. People are uptight, every request is prefixed with a please and every conversation is suffixed with a thanks, followed by an aritificially induced smile implying "please get lost". I perfected my prefixes and suffixes, but still working on that smile. Its just that cracking too many PJs with other lazy people over a fried maggi and coffee in ANC has affected my way of smiling. Its not cool to make fun of people, or have saracastic remarks made on others anymore.Your best jokes often go by unnoticed. And sadly, a brave and self-sacrificing effort to make yourself a complete idiot and have a heart laugh over it is never appreciated. So, instead of dreaming to bask in the glory of a joke at yourself, keep your mouth shut the next time you've got your id card around your neck.
I will never know if those 4 years at college will be the best years of my life, but I am sure I will remember them for a long time to come.
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same feeling achou though in my case it is not compulsory to carry the tag around my neck as a rope on a buffalo.. :D
I'm tired of my boss saying 'Don't think it is your college. Every action by you really matters a lot to this company. Try to do things which are told (which I don't remember being told) on time and never postpone anything. Don't assume anything on your own!!' I'm sick of asking him what to do next and giving him status of what I'm doing all the time..
Really miss those days when we didn't care about anything.. It is a tough transformation yes, but that is the way it is..
How can we remember those awesome 4 years if we aren't in this situation now?
updates for updating updates... lol..
achou, i feel this is the problem only at an uncreative end of the corporate world. If you were in RnD or slightly higher up, surely life wouldn't suck so much. I have perhaps had the best and most productive semester of undergrad life at JNC. You always find people with good tastes (rather similar tastes). All your colleagues are products of monotony and brainwashing, you cannot expect any 'life' in them. All their 'life' is and will be about making money, building houses, producing kids and taking care of family and they will always have their way of 'enjoying' which you and I will never like. So either plan and change where your career is heading or just become another zombie :)
@ naveen - btw about telling your boos what you are doing etc. I dont think thats something you should regret, I think we have spent enough time aimlessly enough. If you want to laze around so badly, take up teaching in some coaching center in bangalore, you will surely live like in college. Take 5 mins and think if thats what you want. I personally am very very happy to be out of that shitty lazy direction-less life. But i think achou's major point is that life is very superficial and plastic in the corporate world which i totally agree.
ya...too sophisticated, u feel it that way esp after coming out of college. Im happy with my career prospects, never felt this way in my internship, totally enjoyed work.
Uncreative end? lazy direction-less life? wtf? dont agree...too strong statements without getting to know about it
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