Sitting on the comfortable chair in one of the gizmo edifice of an IT industry, where looking out of your cubicle, you can just see the useless (useful for clients) heads of the labors, spending day and night for their daily pizzas and burgers. Here most of the people (I know) 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 is a common story of all of us but still we are “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? Well I am a very small particle to ask this mammoth question to the busy IT industry.
Getting in more details if you want to learn about the life of software professionals (read it; even if you are not interested); it’s as simple as a blank book in which there lays different codes for not working. Starting with the normal schedule, we get up very early in the morning i.e. 9 AM; because our tummy needs that much time to slowly digest the ‘Tandory Chicken’ and Soft (really) drinks of last night. Ohh I must not forget those few spoilsports (Like meJ) who think they can avoid this beautiful tummy by getting up early and doing some jogging and exercise. Ok so after the beautiful sleep we get up and go to the office, yes guys you are right I deliberately avoided saying, we have a bath and all, because that’s optional and depends on the circumstances. In office we do lot of gmailing, facebooking and tea drinking, apart from this we attend meetings, trainings. And yes we do the work too.
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 (very badJ).
But still it is fun to be here, to be part of long calls and important(J) meetings, savoring the never affordable food in client parties.. playing foosball 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 tooJ).. working hard outside the office in bench period.. banging head due to always changing requirements.. and never ending clients expectations..
So this was the small story of every(many of them!!) IT geek, who purchase a 2000 Rs provogue shirt because his girlfriend likes it and borrow 5000 from the friend before the month end.. and that’s how the life of IT professional goes on which ends up with one onsite opportunity one flat in Pune and life insurance.. so friends IT(Imaginarily Towering) that’s what they say it is.. J
Rohan..
