Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last…
When i had heard those words in the speech of Martin Luther King Jr. for the first time, its feel made me think … i always wondered what kind of freedom this guy meant…i mean i could not understand what kind of freedom can arouse those kinds of emotions which can move anyone who listens to the speech even after years… But at last, i think i’ve got a hint now… as J Krishnamurthy puts is…”Freedom is not the opposite of the slavery.” And this is the kind of freedom…which is not just the opposite of slavery can make one ecstatic and make him shout…” Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last…”
This is what my heart shouted yesterday when the clock struck 6 and i handed over my “smart” card to the admin guy. Yes, yesterday was my last day @ the office.
Oh ok…let me try and take the stock of the things which “happened” in the past 10 months. First came the training program where i learnt to unlearn and learnt many other things…which i never wanted to learn. But then it was this training program which gave me many new buddies and presented me with some great time with them which i’ll always cherish…So, after crediting the “friends” part and debiting the “learning”, i undoubtedly stand in green… n so …no complaints..
Then came the actual “hands-on job” experience… Here i met some nice guys…some not so nice n some “ah…keep away from me” also… But i learnt a lot. First time in my life i felt the joy of finishing the work which was not there to be completed. Doing some work which i knew would be discarded later on was something new to me. It was the first time when i learnt that any amount of “Rework” is not detrimental to the profit of any IT Giant, but it actually is a major chuck of its pie. For the first time, i found that we CAN explain something which we ourselves have not understood clearly. This was the period when i realized that using messenger for talking to the guy sitting in the cubicle next to yours is not that ridiculous after all. It is the safest and hence the most sensible way in fact. But then this was only one part…Here i met some great ppl as well from whom i learnt many things which will be helpful to me in the coming years. Be it purely technical skills or some very basic things like.. ”Never take load” … i owe it to them. In short i learnt many things which i would not have without experience of 2 or more years had they not been there to help. And hence i thank all these stalwarts for showing me the way…
So, after everything said and done(?), it’s over. Now i have got some free time on my hand…just little less than a month in fact…this is the time which i can replace by “Loading…Please wait…” if i view my life as the game in which i am moving to a new sublevel. A new chapter waits to be started after it…
PS: Somehow i feel that what ail our IT Giants is not the people, but the procedures and the way they are implemented. But more on that later…
This is what my heart shouted yesterday when the clock struck 6 and i handed over my “smart” card to the admin guy. Yes, yesterday was my last day @ the office.
Oh ok…let me try and take the stock of the things which “happened” in the past 10 months. First came the training program where i learnt to unlearn and learnt many other things…which i never wanted to learn. But then it was this training program which gave me many new buddies and presented me with some great time with them which i’ll always cherish…So, after crediting the “friends” part and debiting the “learning”, i undoubtedly stand in green… n so …no complaints..
Then came the actual “hands-on job” experience… Here i met some nice guys…some not so nice n some “ah…keep away from me” also… But i learnt a lot. First time in my life i felt the joy of finishing the work which was not there to be completed. Doing some work which i knew would be discarded later on was something new to me. It was the first time when i learnt that any amount of “Rework” is not detrimental to the profit of any IT Giant, but it actually is a major chuck of its pie. For the first time, i found that we CAN explain something which we ourselves have not understood clearly. This was the period when i realized that using messenger for talking to the guy sitting in the cubicle next to yours is not that ridiculous after all. It is the safest and hence the most sensible way in fact. But then this was only one part…Here i met some great ppl as well from whom i learnt many things which will be helpful to me in the coming years. Be it purely technical skills or some very basic things like.. ”Never take load” … i owe it to them. In short i learnt many things which i would not have without experience of 2 or more years had they not been there to help. And hence i thank all these stalwarts for showing me the way…
So, after everything said and done(?), it’s over. Now i have got some free time on my hand…just little less than a month in fact…this is the time which i can replace by “Loading…Please wait…” if i view my life as the game in which i am moving to a new sublevel. A new chapter waits to be started after it…
PS: Somehow i feel that what ail our IT Giants is not the people, but the procedures and the way they are implemented. But more on that later…
posted by vaibhaV at 4:14 PM
2 Comments:
Nice post but moi so envious ;-)
I read this post today... just after my presentation to the Director and CEO have been finally scheduled, and i am free to tell some ppl that excuse me sir, but do u mind telling me that u r s(h)itting on a pile of shit n feeling happy abt feeling all cool... deja vu, anyone ???
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