Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Campus to Corporate

I wonder when I'l get rid of this dirty mess, this miniature version of a place which some refer as room, these people who always pull my leg.Many of us have asked this question to ourselves and to our friends in our college days.Many of us have gone on to express their desire to enter the corporate world much before the due date.There are many who are right now sitting at home or in college thinking the same..to get into this world which shows all the bright things, all the stuffs that you have dreamt of to achieve , to possess in your life. Graduating from college is a significant rite of passage. For most of us, it signifies an important transition into the real world of being totally independent and earning a livelihood full-time.It makes us positive and rosy about our expectations.
And then comes the moment when you enter the arena, the on boarding room, and you are so very excited about it.The excitement seems, will never fizz , will remain forever.The same excitement you think , will charge you every morning to go to your workplace with a vigor to change the things that effect people, believing in the philosophy that success is the ability to get along with and interact with others while always getting the job done.The day passes and similarly the next day.
And then , you start contemplating, about those night outs, those chitchats.You start thinking about the monotonousity that you have been crumbled with.The barriers that you have put between. The freedom that has been snatched away from you. Freedom to be what you are. Freedom to express, what you feel like.Freedom of exercising your freedom. The same mess food which used to churn out the things inside your tummy during that time comes rite in frint of you when you have to eat a spaghetti with fork and spoon, and you wonder weather i'l ever get to eat a normal north Indian dish ever.
The same hostel room which used to suffocate the hell out of you now comes nostalgic to you when you are alone in the 5 star hotel room , trying to figure out the course of action to be taken.
But then doing a job is not about attaining salvation. Its about earning your bread and butter.But is this line significant enough to make you continuously do things that you need to.
I'm not an expert on judging situations, neither an expert on transition from campus to corporate.But I'm seriously looking forward to the things coming ahead...