Nice lyrics from a song from movie "Patiala House"
"मुजहे युहीं करके ख्वाबों से जुदा
जाने कहाँ चुपके बैठा हैं खुदा,
जानु न में कब हुआ खुद से गुमशुदा
कैसे जीयू रूह भी हैं मुजसे जुदा"
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Careers et al.
Today I have got one of the best career lessons of my life. This will certainly influence that way I think about my future goals and hence the career decision that follows.
This new "Job life" has presented a completely different picture than what I have imagined during my college days. Nevertheless, I look forward to take it on because I don't have much choice in this regard. I have some suggestions which could make this life a little better.
1. Write to 100
Prepare a spreadsheet consisting names of 100 people and divide these into 4 groups based on the following segmentation:
A) First 30:-
These are the people in your life who can drop all their work and come to rescue you immediately.
B) Next 30:-
These are the people who will respond to your call and will come to help you.
C) Next 30:-
These people will give their advise, support/comment on your thinking and ideas.
D) Remaining ones:-
These are your well wishers, after all you need some positive waves to be able to lead a happy life.
-- These 100 people are the people that take your career to heights. Always keep relationship with them. Help them to get back the same.
2. Find MENTOR
Find yourself a mentor. They can do something that you can't. A mentor will be willing to spend time with you to understand your issues. We generally filter out things that we are not aware of and there is no way for us to see those things. Mentors are the people who help you to see them.
- Open up with him/her
- Tell completely stupid things/different things
- Career breakthrough happen through them only - Go Find Them!
- If anyone is going to teach me - Say to you - I am open - Be grateful
3. Create Reputation
- Be good, do good
- Work on your strengths, never ever loose them
- Make your personal brand
Career is non-linear, you cannot predict what comes ahead. So, believe in present. After all, good things happen when something different happens
This new "Job life" has presented a completely different picture than what I have imagined during my college days. Nevertheless, I look forward to take it on because I don't have much choice in this regard. I have some suggestions which could make this life a little better.
1. Write to 100
Prepare a spreadsheet consisting names of 100 people and divide these into 4 groups based on the following segmentation:
A) First 30:-
These are the people in your life who can drop all their work and come to rescue you immediately.
B) Next 30:-
These are the people who will respond to your call and will come to help you.
C) Next 30:-
These people will give their advise, support/comment on your thinking and ideas.
D) Remaining ones:-
These are your well wishers, after all you need some positive waves to be able to lead a happy life.
-- These 100 people are the people that take your career to heights. Always keep relationship with them. Help them to get back the same.
2. Find MENTOR
Find yourself a mentor. They can do something that you can't. A mentor will be willing to spend time with you to understand your issues. We generally filter out things that we are not aware of and there is no way for us to see those things. Mentors are the people who help you to see them.
- Open up with him/her
- Tell completely stupid things/different things
- Career breakthrough happen through them only - Go Find Them!
- If anyone is going to teach me - Say to you - I am open - Be grateful
3. Create Reputation
- Be good, do good
- Work on your strengths, never ever loose them
- Make your personal brand
Career is non-linear, you cannot predict what comes ahead. So, believe in present. After all, good things happen when something different happens
Friday, May 28, 2010
Now a graduate!
It feels nice to be called as a Bachelor's of Technology, the feat which comes to me after much entanglement in the past 4 years.
Now that I am sitting on my laptop and thinking about the past four years' that have changed my life towards a new direction or should I say to an entirely new place where I can chose any direction where I wish to advance.
First and foremost, I feel proud to be an Production and Industrial Engineer. Looks like I always wanted to become an engineer in this field. I would like to sincerely thank people who helped in making my decision to take this as my major subject in bachelors'.
Not many people from my batch admire their degree in the way it was meant to be. Looks like they were in a process of completing some formalities for getting their degree which says they're graduate (This is what I have felt after interacting with many people around me). I will not go deeper into this thought in this post.......I will now talk about my learning's and the corners of my little life at iit delhi.
-- Lock & key: Somewhere I read "No one manufactures lock without key"; likewise if there is a problem, there has to be a solution!!! Knowing that there exist a solution to the problem you are facing, brings down the difficulty level, isn't that great!!
-- Confidence: This is one of the most awesomest trait anyone can possess. You can do wonders (and bloopers too!!) if you are confident. To the people like me who had faced public speaking blues in presentations, class introductions etc......I have got a very nice solution ........Suppose I have to give a project presentation to my class consisting of 40 odd people. And I am feeling low on confidence worrying, nervous thinking about what's gonna happen when I speak.......what if I mumble in front of them!!!
What I'll do is - I'll think about a situation where I have to give this presentation in front of a thousand people. What happened mentally is, my current situation seems fairly smaller in front of the apparent situation which i have assumed. This is very well experienced that humans chooses smaller challenges with greater confidence over bigger challenges and that's it. Problem solved!!
[INCOMPLETE....]
Now that I am sitting on my laptop and thinking about the past four years' that have changed my life towards a new direction or should I say to an entirely new place where I can chose any direction where I wish to advance.
First and foremost, I feel proud to be an Production and Industrial Engineer. Looks like I always wanted to become an engineer in this field. I would like to sincerely thank people who helped in making my decision to take this as my major subject in bachelors'.
Not many people from my batch admire their degree in the way it was meant to be. Looks like they were in a process of completing some formalities for getting their degree which says they're graduate (This is what I have felt after interacting with many people around me). I will not go deeper into this thought in this post.......I will now talk about my learning's and the corners of my little life at iit delhi.
-- Lock & key: Somewhere I read "No one manufactures lock without key"; likewise if there is a problem, there has to be a solution!!! Knowing that there exist a solution to the problem you are facing, brings down the difficulty level, isn't that great!!
-- Confidence: This is one of the most awesomest trait anyone can possess. You can do wonders (and bloopers too!!) if you are confident. To the people like me who had faced public speaking blues in presentations, class introductions etc......I have got a very nice solution ........Suppose I have to give a project presentation to my class consisting of 40 odd people. And I am feeling low on confidence worrying, nervous thinking about what's gonna happen when I speak.......what if I mumble in front of them!!!
What I'll do is - I'll think about a situation where I have to give this presentation in front of a thousand people. What happened mentally is, my current situation seems fairly smaller in front of the apparent situation which i have assumed. This is very well experienced that humans chooses smaller challenges with greater confidence over bigger challenges and that's it. Problem solved!!
[INCOMPLETE....]
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