Transformation

Random Story - 

There is a hard struggle going on in his mind, for the first time in so many years, he is doing conscious effort of being responsible and thats actually making him try too many things

Trying to do justice with his work, trying to be good with even those who don't matter, trying to be ultra helpful and totally selfless, a sharp transformation from irresponsible, playful happy-go-lucky and indifferent guy of earlier days. Only problem is this new transformed image of his actually wants results, This guy wants credit for his work, he wants people to be empathetic towards him. He wants them to understand that watsoever there is no hidden intentions involved and when none of this actually happens he feels disillusioned. He feels frustrated in being good. Some years back, noone disliked him, noone judged him, noone tried to look for objective in his behavior, he was harmless, he is still, but with added connotations. 

It seems some kind of balance is required between being good & responsible and being irresponsible and indifferent, how about being responsible & indifferent??

Will he be able to achieve this balance?? 

Sales Pitch

When i was at b-school, people were crazy for i-banks and consults, ofcourse that was before global meltdown. 

At IIMI there were 30 odd people out of 180 who opted for marketing over finance in our batch. Where they landed up during placements is totally different story, but even among those 30, most of the people dreamt about getting into branding and marketing kind of roles. 

Sales profiles were seen as only a route to land up into marketing as most of corporates still feels that sales exposure help in buildup to branding kind of activities. People use to hate those organizations who use to offer sales profile without any assurance of getting into brand management unless they offered 12.5+3 kinda package, uss package pe toh even finance guy opted for sales (anyway lets not digress). 

Six months into FMCG system made me realize that sales actually can be lucrative, Initially it gives you a temporary respect (from all the sales officers, distributors et al) which is such a feel good factor for a fresh MBA (ego massage), frequent movement from one location to another is actually great for someone who is unmarried, unsettled, irresponsible and wild freak (for information sake i'll be soon moving to Jaipur, so any jaipuria landing in this blog, Hi!!, Totla you listening??)

During your trainee stint most of the time its a temporary set up, where less is expected but much can be delivered. Most of the time this scenario results in much higher job satisfaction during initial months, and finally all the luxeries associated are incomparable to any other profile. An added advantage is that, it is easy to make people understand your work.

In b-schools perceptions about job profile get build around very weak understandings and most of the time around packages, this year with economy hitting hard people have to make more informed choices, going with herds may not be a right strategy this time (it never was), Waiting for desired job profile without getting bogged down by other offers around should be the way to handle tough situation.

  

Revisiting

Random Story 1 - He was watching 1st hour of test match between two international side, also getting ready for office, suddenly players decided to take drinks break, sports channel decided to take commercial break, he decided to browse through channels. In one of those channel most entertaining movie ever made in bollywood was coming, in which a useless underdog kind of person wins cycle race in the end.He reached for work 2 hours late

Random Story 2 - They say everyone is protagonist in their own life story, perhaps he is the biggest exception to the rule. Unlucky chap is totally a supporting character, you try to make any random story around him, he will always be playing a supporting cast, in which noone will dislike him, no one will be wary of him, everyone will adore him and then everyone will forget him. Everytime he tried to take up a lead role someone edited his role to fit other lead characters. Perhaps his story was written after everyone else's

Random Story 3 - The only motto of his life was to maaro a chill, his entire circle consisted of fikar not bindaas type people. Everyone moved on in their life becoming more and more responsible including him. He stopped, looked around, wondered where is everyone, checked himself again, satisfied, moved on.