It is funny how we feel happy when it starts raining and the skies are grey. I painted my fingernails for the very first time and I think I like it. I am sure I would never have done it in summer. It is just something that happened because the city looks lovely despite the clogged drains. The view of the sea at any time of the day is awesome!
I think I just love Mumbai in the rains. J
It was really odd but my last day at LexSite was made even more memorable since I heard of MJ's death while in the office building my resolve for my first "date" lunch with my soon to be ex-boss. J
I watched "This is it" yesterday and kept thinking about any significance I could attach to these 2 occurrences, in retrospect. There really is no comparison between my life and that of Michel Jackson. However, given how my next 2 jobs have turned out, maybe I should have waited for a better opportunity before taking the plunge. I don't know. I could never have survived in what is today a completely different set up and I am glad I got out when I did. I have no regrets on leaving LexSite or joining DJ. The international exposure was indeed fun and if that had been a product I could sell, maybe I could have stayed on.
That my professional life has become too fluid and has lost all shape and form is true but I think I can say that I do not regret any of the changes. I may have made bad decisions but it was most certainly time to move on.
Around this time last year, I was looking forward to a new job with an MNC and some serious shift in my general role and profile at work. Today, I realize I was never really cut out for that or for the kind of low end technology profile I have since changed into. I shifted 3 jobs in one financial year after staying in the same place for 10 years… 10 years is a long time, but to find a role that gives me the adrenalin rush of a commercial deal closing, the success of a well run seminar and the fun of interacting with different personalities and explaining a software solution to meet the needs is just so tough.
I hope in this June, I once again find a good role and am able to shift to a new job where I can spend the next 10 years. Or I could leave the city I love and find my fortunes elsewhere…
There is the story of MNCs spending on the rural economy to do well in the long term and gain advantages in terms of CSR. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB127296168752486467.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read#
I also know of stories where HLL has made specific efforts to destroy the production of "arita" a fruit that was used predominantly across rural India as an effective hair care solution. Arita was sold cheap and was easily available till HLL realized it was unable to sell its chemical formulations simply because of the availability of cheaper indigenous solutions. They created a strategy that would eliminate competition.
This story is not much different from the way food production has changed in India from the many varied regional varieties like ragi, bajra production and consumption giving way to wheat that can then be refined and sold.
Where is the CSR?
Can IT enable better work life balance for employees by saving time and doing mundane stuff quickly if it cannot be considered to have a positive correlation between a company's effective use of IT and their share price?
If IT is truly an "enabler" then it should certainly make life simpler. If I can say that I could save x amount of time because I worked through a system, then that is a win, else what is the point?
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Read this morning in the ET that Deutsche has offered over 1.44Cr plus at the IIMA placement. The IBankers and Consultancies have gone back to the pre 2008 pay scales and are making big offers once again. As we speak, he Greek debt crisis is spreading from Greece to Portugal, Spain and Italy where Government debt and budget deficits are high while the Eurozone controls do not let them print new money. Getting out of the Euro union might lead them the Argentinean way with massive outflows.
These Companies might argue that the way back into growth is to go back to old ways and recruit new people but I wonder if they ever think of the "real" wealth creation or do they only want to see the world as a place for complex financial structures.
I think i know what i want to do with my life.
I want to be involved in health care in India. I wonder if any one will give me a job in this sector that I know nothing about but at least I do feel some thing for its absolute need. Maybe it is time i gave up on salary and started looking for jobs in some mofussil town where they might grant me an interview simply because i want to re-locate from the great city. That sounds like an idea. I would then probably take all my vacations just to Mumbai and never want to go anywhere else.
: That does sound sad. But what the hell!
