So, you have just completed your graduation from a well reputed university. You have had an amazing student life, good friends, awesome teachers and excellent grades which, according to you, look good on your CV. Now you have earned a good job, and you think you deserve it. You start your professional life with the same zeal and fervour you have carried out your studies your whole life and expect the same results.
But after some time, operating in the professional environment, you sit back and have to think a few things over. And here is gist of, not all, but major scenarios of what the corporate environment makes you.
Pros:
1. You are young, enthusiastic and eager to prove yourself. No matter how hard your job is, the feeling of self accomplishment on landing a good job, in a well reputed organization, surpasses all achievements.
2. You get to manage your own finances which makes you realize your preferences in life.3. You get the independence you have dreaded your whole life.
4. You realize how hard it is to earn money; hence you start cutting back on you lavish and irrelevant expenditures; you start respecting your parents more and more as you realise how hard it has been for them to support your expensive education, hi-fi life style and irritating tantrums for irrelevant and overly high priced items, especially gadgets like I phones and tablets.
5. You feel happy on every accomplishment at work and feel content about your life and career.
6. Every day you have something to wake up to: another assignment, a office get together, a presentation; which is always better that having nothing on schedule and no motivation to wake up to. You have a good routine.
7. You become a practical and a rational person who makes decisions carefully and takes calculated risk not only in professional but in personal life too.
8. Your parents, siblings and relatives start respecting you and give value to your opinion and ideas as you have stepped in practical life and all of a sudden considered sensible.
Cons:
1. After a few of months, with your liberty of doing whatever you want to do gone, you start feel like you are caged by the clock. You become a servant of time.
2. You actually realize what the statement "Tomorrow is Monday again" means. In real.
3. You get sick and tired of proving yourself again and again and yet again and all the reward you ever get is another tough assignment.
4. You come to the conclusion that the definition of independence, you have always imagined, is totally incorrect and what you have is an independently dependent life which is even worse.
5. You feel taken aback by the reality of life when you get to experience, first hand, all the hard cruel realities of life and people, your professors and parents warned you about.
6. Your social life dies.
7. You start missing out on a lot of things in life like friend's surprise birthdays, parent's anniversary dinners and long chats with friends and spouses because you have a video call, late at night, with seniors/colleagues and/or customers living in a different time zone or your boss have given you a deadline you have to meet which calls for endless late sittings and continuous over time at work
8. You finally come to the conclusion that grades really don't matter when you see the so-called-dumbest kid of class, if not doing better, than equal to you in his career which is disappointing.
Yes, all of you can relate to a lot of the above points. But this list does not mean that you have become a complete 9 to 5 freak or your life couldn't be better cos you work in an amazing company.
It just means everything in life has, both, an upside and a downside and one cannot reap all the benefits without experiencing the downsides.
5. You feel happy on every accomplishment at work and feel content about your life and career.
6. Every day you have something to wake up to: another assignment, a office get together, a presentation; which is always better that having nothing on schedule and no motivation to wake up to. You have a good routine.
7. You become a practical and a rational person who makes decisions carefully and takes calculated risk not only in professional but in personal life too.
8. Your parents, siblings and relatives start respecting you and give value to your opinion and ideas as you have stepped in practical life and all of a sudden considered sensible.
Cons:
1. After a few of months, with your liberty of doing whatever you want to do gone, you start feel like you are caged by the clock. You become a servant of time.
2. You actually realize what the statement "Tomorrow is Monday again" means. In real.
3. You get sick and tired of proving yourself again and again and yet again and all the reward you ever get is another tough assignment.
4. You come to the conclusion that the definition of independence, you have always imagined, is totally incorrect and what you have is an independently dependent life which is even worse.
5. You feel taken aback by the reality of life when you get to experience, first hand, all the hard cruel realities of life and people, your professors and parents warned you about.
6. Your social life dies.
8. You finally come to the conclusion that grades really don't matter when you see the so-called-dumbest kid of class, if not doing better, than equal to you in his career which is disappointing.
Yes, all of you can relate to a lot of the above points. But this list does not mean that you have become a complete 9 to 5 freak or your life couldn't be better cos you work in an amazing company.
It just means everything in life has, both, an upside and a downside and one cannot reap all the benefits without experiencing the downsides.
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