The Big Plan

 Well, after 12 long years working at Colgate ; I finally got a new Job in HUL. The new job has been keeping me super busy these days and never thought working in a Shampoo company can be so taxing. While the idea of joining was way straight forward, to kill 7-8 years of professional life in a chill FMCG environment even at flat salary; it is going bonkers here. All directors keep talking about promotions! No one hell is bothered about what is right for the organization. Each one is for himself.

I want to be doing things which are more meaningful. Which allow me to work to my full potential. Give space to show my skills as an IITian. Have given my self a deadline of 1st Jan 2029. By then I am going to wrap up my professional life and get into enterprising. Yes ! something I always wanted to do as my older posts also speak.  I can be a good coach & supply chain person. I shall run my own complex supply chain to service heath supplements needs for my countrymen.  I shall pick up a place in Bhiwandi and start learning more about this space. That's what I aspire for and that's what I shall now start working for !

The coming time looks very exciting as Ujjwal grows and hopefully he shall be the first member of my company. I dream to make it big with him. We may eventually even manufacture our own health supplements for our Nation. Time to come looks very exciting!

Cheers!

 

Mumbai Meri Jaan ...

Ten years and five cities. Jaipur > Varanasi > Baroda > Mumbai > Chandigarh & now back to Mumbai. That's how it is. Its been very challenging honestly for my family. And how does the work change ? Its just the similar work. Ram / Shyaam / Ghanshyam. No difference in work content I would say.

Law of inertia is true in life. Things in motion remain in motion. Life continues to fast with quite a bit of professional work load. Things in rest remain in rest. Do miss my friends I had in college to go around. Do miss not spending enough time to meet all relatives. The job security is the only charm making me hold where I am. Enterprising being a dream like any other Indian. Still a way to go with no clarity. Some where do also dream of the Americas.

Ujjawal ( my son) gives me a lot of motivation to fight & do something significant. Also some where do also believe that destiny is true. Some external forces do drive your acts. Being a science student I have and will never believe astrological predictions. But do somewhere understand that external factors affect your being.

Somewhere I still keep searching people. Achin to play TT, Kaushik to talk to, Sadana for phone, 321 people to memories, college cool people & Baddi Friends. Life has not given stable friendships and people keep moving and so do I. I just don't like this. Why could we friends not be in same city in what I wonder.

Fun is not eating. I keep eating something in all the free time I get. Am gaining weight and no exercise. Subconsciously human is so aware and reflects everything. Just that these things do not take life because of shitty securities we desire in life.

huff .... have stealed out some time off....

I caught the train from Chandigarh to Jaipur on 30th Sep 2014. The idea was to buy a land & "nothing to do vaccation". Do many people have it ? I did not have such a vaccation for last 4-5 years where the idea was to do "nothing".

The slow life has started charming me like anyhting. The usual life goes at a pace which really cannot be matched. If someone asks me or Sonali (my wife) what did we do with our lifes in last 3 years, answer would be really difficult to answer. May be a Mauritius trip & Ujjawal (my son) would be all what we cherish.

This trip has made me feel much more human. I have been meeting people with no agenda and just to socialize.... Payal, Mehta Aunty, Bhadari Uncle, Manna ad may be more in next two days. There is no real hurry / rush. No follow ups, no reports floating around. The usual moderate slow life has made so much charm all around.

When I see people around, I suddenly find them 15 years old and much more grown up. Feels nostalgic to be back in my homeland, at the same time gives a feel that living has become all to just work. All freinds are scattered in various corners of the world... not sure even if they would meet again...

 

One of the unusual days

Its a monday morning. I see a lot of hassle in the office. People around are trying to catch up with a lot of work. Being a trainee, I do have a lot of time to sit and write while others are busy. Moreover people around me hardly understand what blogging is.

Over the last week I happened to meet a few seniors (2-7 years) to try and understand their career path. I met a few consultants, Managers, Analysts & Associates. All had a different perception of their roles. Some thought themselves to be fire fighters, some were cordinators, some were gyaan gurus, leaders etc. It was a bit suprizing for me to see that only a few people had added real value over the years. The consultants had a good understanding of how to make theoritical concepts applicable. Managers had learnt the ground realities very well over the years. My conclusion to the above observation would be that rather than experienced, fresh scholars from the campus can be the right pick for buiilding competency. They have the potential to make theories aplicable. The value that an experienced guy would add, may already be there with the organization seeking problem solving.

Enough gyaan for the day. Need to prepare for a meeting. Catch up again soon.

People I Met

MBA is over. Heading to my 2nd stint at the corporate life. And am going to talk about a few people now that I have met in this year. I wont say name, and let them burn with in.

Type 1: Committed and Basterdy.
They say they already have a girl friend/ boy friend, and advertise it to most folks on day 1. And still they want to lay their hand on the good looking girl/guy in campus. They promise a treat if the girl/guy proposed to him. Be true to at least yourself. (Proud of the girl here, she is smart, but not enough yet)

Type 2: The CV Point seekers
They just live their life for a CV point. They disgust me. I hate talking about them. People who don’t want to help their teammates, and people who have deadlines every time you setup a meeting, and people who sleep early in the night when there is work.

Type 3: The Drunken Morons
Simple, they drink and misbehave. I wish I slapped him during Prerana party. Would have done if I knew what had happened on time.

Type 4: The Geniuses
They inspire you with all the work they do. They are a class apart from it

Type 5: The Good People
You like them, their work ethics, and you become friends with them. You watch all your movies with them, eat your food with them and spend most of your time with them.

Type 6: And me
Stupid, emotional, Kaam Chor, useless guy, the SCM guy, restless guy, the soon to be bald man, the "you-need-to-get-a-girl-friend" branded guy. Oh that list is even longer, can't really recollect.

"Hows Job going ?"

Since college is over and job has started, every alternate guy is up with the same question : "Hows Job going ?"

For all those queries, here's the answer

Get up at 7:30 am with a huge yawn. I don't need an alarm, as the bulldozer for construction invariable starts dismantling the badminton court behind my hostel at 7:30 am. Then look into the mirror and feel you have grown 12 hours older. Get ready for yet another troubling day. Get down to the hostel mess and pray each day that he would have made Aloo Parantha for breakfast. Eat in a hurried manner and then catch an auto from the hostel road. Everyday make sure that you have 30 bugs change for the autowala or else it might be troublesome. I start work at around 8:50. by the time its 11:00 I usually have a yawn. Get up from my desk and look for someone who can have coffee. Spend 15 mins chit chatting and come back to desk. Having just started the job I need to seek time from other people a lot. After the coffee my chase for people begins. Drop a couple of mails requesting for a meeting. Call up few people from whom data is required and explain my requirements. It is 1:30 pm in no time. Go down with colleagues to the cafeteria for lunch. Its an awesome place. The ambiance and the food, both are very good. I usually have a heavy lunch since I usually don't have anything in between till dinner.

Post lunch my laziness quotient goes up. I feel like washing my face by four. I usually spend 10-15 mins in the loo and roaming around at about 4:00 pm. My most effective working time is 5:00-7:00 pm. Its not because that I have a heavy lunch and then get lazy in between; but because it is the time when people hear to me and give me time.

At around 7:00 I am off from office. Usually post office I spend an hour for my health. I walk or jog as per my mood that day with earphones filling radio stations in my ears. Post that get together with some friends, kill some time on the name of recreation and then sleep. Phone calls also eat an hour or so these days surprisingly.

thats it! Mango life....(aam jindegi)...

NITIE talks...

A night above MDP's water tank

Dilip S : Dude where to keep my fags?

Moba: Keep them on the floor.

Dilp S: They will fly away.

Moba: Keep them on the floor.

Dilip S kept the Fags on the floor(the roof of the water tank) leaning against a naked wire which stopped the fags from flying with the wind.

Moba: Dilip how many companies are you sure would be coming?

Dilip S: none.

Moba: Try harder man. Guys like me don’t have a good CV. In fact have nothing on their CV.

Dilip S: what can I do man? I can at max make calls, follow up. I do all of that man. Those people are on recruiting freeze this year.

A big Silence...... Dilip, Moba, Akash and me...... all trying to listen to the voice of the wind from the lakes.......

Divya: Moba u have a girl friend?

Dilip S : Since eight years. He’s a veteran.

Moba: Divya, you still single?

Divya : yeah.

Moba: Lucky. Its all the same to have a GF or to go for an arrange marriage. Finally you need to carry on.

Dilip S : Its the same with everyone dude. Even the coolest of females are like leeches. They some time or the other definitely trouble you.

Moba: You end up spending a lot of time with them dude. You do get an emotional support. But I feel I could have had more friends.

Dilip S: I cant make friends with any of the females on campus man. Its a sin for me. Its better of being single.

Akash Tiwari: Arrange marriage is a gamble. Females are looked in for beauty,color,height and other parameters which our sexual in nature. Compatibility is what you are looking for. All other things are secondary. If my spouse watches balika wadhu I would be trapped dude. May be I would tolerate it for a month or so. What after that? One day I would definitely end up shouting.

Dilip S: It happens with GFs also. You need to take on many things.

Akash Tiwari : Its better to find out one for your self through Shaadi.com. Date her for 6 months and then take an intelligent call.

Divya: Its just that man is always one step behind. After ending Engineering you realize how best it could have been done. After entering a B school one realizes which B School he should have landed. May be even after marrying I would realize how to decide on your spouce. When it would be late!!

Everyone is silent.

Dilip S : This terries is amazing man. I can spent infinite time here...........