Don't get me wrong. Its not because I'm really unhappy at the fact that my vacations are getting ruined as I have to "WORK" in the office 10 hrs a day everyday (read) but truly a realisation that I came about due to this effort.
The "office life" destroys your creativity, forcing you to do continually work piecemeal on mostly dumb projects that you know will never revolutionize anyone's life, but basically does the routine that people need. Yes, this kind of routine work has to be done by someone, but if you're like me, you will not be the one to get stuck in this zombie culture of waking up in the morning, slaving for 10 hours, and then returning towards late evening, too tired to do anything but slouch on a chair drinking tea and writing about how dumb you feel. One simply doesn't have the time or energy to think about ANYTHING else after returning from office. All one seeks to do is to relax and sleep soon. Gotta sleep early.. office in the morning remember? In short, even if you are good, the routine office life will bring you down to its levels of mundaneness and dumbness and make you feel generally really stupid and out of touch.
This is the typical routine every office worker follows, and my statements are meant for those select few who desire to break away from the system and be different. If you are fine with serving people's routine needs, that is perfectly genuine too. Do not mistake me. I am talking about those people who can be intensely creative, know that they can do better things for people, have confidence in themselves that they can create things that will make better and revolutionize the life of others as well as theirs. The first casualty when you get stuck in the drill of conventional life is your sense of Independent thinking.
A matter of bread and butter, some would say. True. You've gotta do what you've gotta do. However, when there is an opportunity, grab it. Risks are meant to be taken, some big and some small. When you have the chance to some radically better stuff, do it. I have been in IEEE Students' Chapter for the past two years, and was the Secretary at last count. But I felt that it was time to move on and do other things, even though I appeared to have a very good chance at the top job. However, it was a risk nevertheless, leaving IEEE to get back the time to do bigger things, develop new ideas that could potentially be the next big things. I feel I can do it. So risk I must. Risk the general "social standing", risk the chance of not having any work to channel one's energies. This is an example of a small risk, almost negligible. But the basic point does not change. If you want to be different, don't get stuck in any kind of routine. One must follow for a while, and move on to other things to remain fresh and dynamic.
4 comments:
Ah you seem to be going through the experience my dad tells me every new college pass out experience when they take their first baby steps in the work arena.Apparently the companies first break the idealist and rebellious new fish by giving them the most monotonous work possible in the organization,before making them. A distant cousin of mine who is a mechanical engineer also told me that for the first 3 months he was just made to xerox one document after the other in the organization where he had his first job :-p
BTW if you ever happen to visit LuminaR check the link that you have there ;-)Seriously...I am tired of changing the URL of your blog in the blogroll every few months.
Yeah, but the one thing I can assure you of is that I won't be one of those who will remain stuck in this system. Trust me its not the kind of work I'm doing that prompted me to write the above article, but the basic drill that it puts you in which will destroy the very individual in you. That's what I am talking about.
And this is definitely my final blog.
Office can build or break talent ! It all depends on where u are.
Ppl at Google make things which ppl at TCS can only think of using !
That wouldn't definitely be a problem i guess for you... :)
LOL.. hehe. Dunno about that!
Yeah, the environment makes a lot of difference. Basically, the point is that if you're going to spend 10 hours of your 18 waking hours in the office, then it better be something you look forward to going to rather than something you have to do. Yeah, its not possible to feel so psyched up about going to office EVERYDAY, but if its something that you don't enjoy most of the time, then its time for you to make some crucial decisions.
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