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Fellow Contemporaries What a day!!!! Nothing fruitful was done for the day. For that matter, any day is the same. I don’t know understand the point why do I have to slog myself the entire day to work for something from which I don’t get anything apart from salary. Of course we all work for money. But then apart from that I don’t seem to learn anything at the end of the day. But is that the real picture?
Aren’t we learning anything? There are quite a no of things we are unknowingly doing day by day. But then I always openly avow that software is bull shit and I don’t like it. You are not; compare being at home and in office. But then coding doesn’t seem to improve your skills. And for people working in an offshore-onsite model where 70% of the development work is that of a maintenance type, there is nothing but copy and paste. Still then, copy and paste requires a lot of intelligent stuff inside us to carry out things, it’s an obscure world, that’s why after a year or 2, people renounce their jobs and take up MBA. They all want to get into investment banking or a consultancy firm. Aversion over software had turned many to look into these fields. But then it’s not quite easy to fool a foreigner and to go there and make him a fool in his land, sure requires a lot of skills, Client interaction, business strategy requires a lot of competency in an individual. I agree but then this task does not fall for a developer. You can become a Master only if you are a good servant, so don’t crib about your job. Garrulous conversation doesn’t help. Garrulous conversation is what required for a manager. Speak from your nerves and get the business. So what is that you want to say? Americans code throughout their lifetime. But in India one hardly coded for a maximum of three years, and then it’s all about timesheet management, quality and stuffs like that. So just stick for three years to your seat, and then you will be rewarded. But then don’t think being a manager you are in the back seat. It’s a hot seat and your buttock will be served hot every morning. Your cell phone rings even after your feet lands in home. Tough job you see. I have heard managers say I want to be a developer. May be that’s why there are a few managers and a lot of developers (I know that is one bad logic, but let it be).
One more thing is that only in software companies officially you have Saturday’s as holidays. Majority of other industries have Saturday’s as half working days. Ha ha we work on weekends to my dear. You cannot get away with that and also you get hardly around 4 hours of sleep everyday. Have you read in The Hindu, recently there was an article telling about the no of suicide attempts increasing in BPO and IT services companies. What say?
Remember other side is always green or rather greener. But I don’t want to be the best of the worst rather I will be a worst among the best…. ( to be continued… )
