My stint with myself!!

Well, it had been a while since I penned down something. MBA preparation somehow pushed me to make this habit which has gone deep down in priority list.

Sitting back and exploring myself, I realised today that this is something which I like to do naturally but may be I am still not good at. So, I decided to visit back to once created blog and write down something.  And here is the biggest question: What do I write on? I don’t have anything specific in mind but I have to write today. But I have life experiences and so I can definitely write on last one year of corporate experience, the changed life after the much fun filled MBA.

I remember the day when I got PPO and I was relieved to not fight out the battle for final placements. Of course I was happy and exhilarated as it offered me most of what I wanted: profile, location, money -almost everything of my choice. Next 6 months was probably one of the longest and most relaxed phases after class 10^th, to the extent that it got boring being so much free after sometime. NITIE offered that liberty to be free all the timeJ. I had done most of what I wanted and possible for a student with money constraints: a long trip with friends, customary Goa trip, playing cricket every day, trying out famous food joints in Mumbai. Now, after almost one and a half year after joining corporate, life is no more the same. The job is still decent, people out there are good. Yes, some uncertainties and intermittent pressure is there but every job has those things but somehow, I am not enjoying. Is it because work has got boring or is it because I am doing something which is not a passion?  I sat down a day and asked myself all these questions and yes, that stint with myself definitely helped. The answer doesn’t lie in the job, work, peers etc., it probably lies in: what else??  I have not been doing much of anything else except hanging out now and then with friends, little chit chats after office, browsing aimlessly through internet. Since that day, I have consistently tried to find out new things which drive me with positivity. Job sucks out your energy, something else must fill you with that energy. That else for me has been to try to be healthy, read books, be completely away from electronic media for atleast 2-3 hours in a day and from today: writing.

One thing which I have definitely learned and I want to pass it on to everyone who reads this. Give 100%, 200% and whatever % in your job but there should always be something else also in your life. Else, life may end up to be too boring and you may start thinking too much about career as that is the only thing left in your life. I am happy that I could identify this early and now, I have other things to enjoy and think of a part from job. After all, career is just one part of your life for most of the corporate people and we work hard so that we can improve other parts of life.