For those of you, who hv no clue bout dis, I just started wid my job sum time bac. N today, I completed a month. I wud like to say, I’ve survived. But I’m an optimist… I’ll say I hv arrived…
I admit I was 1 of the lucky ones in my batch who got placed just bfore the market did its flip-flops… n also, I didn really hv a fixed goal a couple of months bfore the placement process started. To be honest, I hadn even heard much bout the firm in which I’m currently workin, let alone big 4 n all..
However, I can easily state dat 5th august 2008 changed my view of life totally. The crosshair which was just loafing around suddenly honed in on its aim. N almost a yr later, here I am.. in a different city… stayin in office for 9 hrs.. havin coffee at every brk… already thinkin bout where I wanna be after 6 months, 1 yr, 2 yrs, 5 yrs, n so on… (oh, I shud clarify, Goa appears in every 1 of those plans :D)
A lot of stuff has been said bout the problems in acclamatizin to the change in lifestyle, the added responsibility, budgetin, blah blah.. i hv a simple reply to it now.. I hv grown up… it wud be silly to compare an 18 yr old colg guy struggling to attend 3 classes a day, to a 21 yr old ready to stay in office til 9pm just to finish the wrk. But ppl forget, there r 3 big yrs in between… not dat every1 has a gr8 beginnin to his/her professional life… but the adjustment they hv to make, n eventually do, is what distinguishes them frm a colg student.
My own experience has been no different. The first few days were well, different… but no new joinee was expecting a garland welcome and 2 secretaries running around and bringing coffee. I had been told so many bad stories and incidents, dat I was expecting sumthin far worse dan what I’ve encountered so far. Responsibilities can’t be handled overnite.. but they don’t hv to be either.. a little care on our side can help us ease into our new lives. By the first weekend, I had planned on what all I wud require to buy to convert my new house to my home… I shifted on the second weekend, and except for the food arrangements, I hv been able to fairly manage my life.. yes of course, the costs hv been higher dan what they shud ideally be.. but not even Einstein got his relativity theories sorted in 1 weekend. By da second weekend I had fixed up maids and bought enuf furniture to spend the nites…
Now as I begin my second month, I can fairly say that I am a working professional who is living independently and is supporting himself. Now dat the matured person inside me has settled down, my thoughts durin weekends have again started wandering to the latest flicks, friends to meet, places to eat at, etc. Coz, well, however grown up I may become, the child in me is never gonna get lost u know... J
