From being a carefree youth to a corporate slave, the transition happened in just thirty days. Why not it be, after all I had been really working hard on those nine commandments which every Engineers promises before joining any IT company.
1. I have already enjoyed my life in childhood
2. I love tension
3. I don’t want to spend time with my friends (I hate them)
4. I love night duties
5. I love to work on Sundays and holidays
6. I want to take revenge on myself
7. I don’t want to get married before 30 years of age
8. I want to study until my death
9. I don’t want hair on my head
In an easy way, life of an IT professional really sucks. And it wasn’t just me who was unhappy or rather say frustrated; peeping over my cubicle, I could see many useless (useful for clients) heads of the labors, spending day and night for their daily pizzas and burgers. Here most of the people think, ‘Is this really what they want to do in life?’, but the next minute they get a ping from their manager or TL regarding the task update and then they try to recollect, ‘where am I?’. This was actually the common story of all of us but still we were ‘surviving’, rather I should correct it to ‘growing’, how? This question possesses the same gravity as that of question on Indian economy, how is it growing? Exactly!
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise; I knew why I was none of the above. The day started with an 8.30 alarm because my tummy needed that much time to slowly digest the ‘Tandory Chicken’ and beer of last night. So after the beautiful sleep I got up and went to the office. Yes guys! You are right. I deliberately avoided saying, I had a bath and all, because that was optional and depended on the circumstances. You see, the deodorant companies had made life so simple.
In office I did lot of Gtalk, Facebook (through proxy sites) and tea breaks, apart from attending meetings, trainings. And yes! I did some work too, if I still had time. Well, about my work- being a software tester my job was just to run few tools on some application and look for bugs or glitches in them. Yeah! It does sound simple and trust me, it’s really that easy but then it could lull a person to sleep with its hypnotically ugly monotony; luckily we had a big coffee-maker which poured hot chocolate too. Life was so dull here and the same routine made me sometime feel that I was in some jail and weekends meant bail. Life became a long wait from one Saturday to another because after Monday and Tuesday, even my calendar said WTF.
The other things I observed there was that in the IT world you should always be able to elaborate the simple things complicatedly, if you can do that you really have a good future here. Here you will find people working day and night without looking at Saturday and Sundays and also the people who come to office at 11.30AM and are right there outside the premises waiting for the bus at 6PM. This is the one weird industry, where two people in the same position with same experience can differ drastically in salaries. It’s all about Darwin’s theory- survival of the fittest and being fittest here means being mean, selfish, greedy and politico stereotypes.
But still it is fun to be here, to be part of long calls and important meetings, relishing the never affordable food in client parties, playing pool and TT in every ‘two’ hour break after working for 1 hour, enjoying the weekend in sleeping for three days (yes I have included Friday too), working hard outside the office in bench period, banging head due to always changing requirements and never ending clients expectations. And at the end, the long wait of thirty days and finally the awaited sms from the bank- Your Salary have been credited to your account, makes everything worth it. Life is really good here.
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