DISCLAIMER : I got really stressed up with no proper work to do when i composed the content for this post. The owner of the blog is certainly not responsible for the quality of writing as it was not reviewed even once before publish..
Life takes real big twists and turns when you least expect them to happen. It has been more than a year since i updated my blog now. This literally means that the blog has not been changed for more than a year. You can see that i have become mildly redundant after almost 3 years of IT Experience. However the same cannot be stated about my life and my mind. My mind has been changing on a weekly basis or sometimes even quicker than that. My mind is like these openSource frameworks in which i work on. They keep changing too frequently for no reason. Someone comes up with a new JAR file in some remote island of Java, everyone in the Java World will be crazy enough trying to use that same JAR file in every implementation task given to them. The solution approach will be modified in such a way that the JAR file however irrelevant to the context should be used while the code runs. This will be followed by a Business Justification as well. Such is the craziness in this world of IT. This being the case, there is more than just a few oppurtunities for you to enjoy this screwed up routine. Identifying all of them is the need of the hour. With wide spread global monotony and Very Large Scale Boredom (We will henceforth refer to this phenomena as VLSB until i get bored) contributing to the downward trend in Global Business Growth, Change has indeed been the only un-changed ingredient. Change is something like this.. Looking at a Flat screen monitor gave us pleasure few years back because it was some kind of an innovation that was a visual treat to watch but now even the laptops cannot suffice to give us that kind of visual delight. I still remember the days when we were working on our finaly year engineering project almost 3 years back. I had a Transcend 128 MB USB "Pen Drive" to carry all our creations (However stupid the stuffs could be!!) to the Review presentation hall. While most other teams walked in with CDs and some people bringing their CPUs to make the project presentation, me and my project mates walked in with this tiny thing that could be plugged in for instant external data access. Some of my friends felt that it was so cool to have that gadget.. But look at it now.. How silly does it sound!! Trust me.. These days, you cannot manage to get a Small Kid's attention on a brand new Acer laptop.. (You could do that with a Nintendo Wii though !!)..Atleast not by asking him to look at whats running on that heated LCD display.. If you could give him the laptop in a closed condition.. he would probably enjoy opening and closing the notebook PC over and again until it breaks.. You know wat.. i wish i could do that to everybody's laptop (with prior pemission of-course)!! The point i am trying to make here is... If you are totally lost in the world of computers without an option, please do remember, you still are lucky enough to be on the job. We hail from a country that endorses agriculture as its primary job.. but never encourages the needful.. Well.. when i am aware that i am too small to discuss about that, it is also a fact that i am able to atleast see if not feel the plight of a farmer when he is unable to grow his crops.. Of-course this was made possible only because of the over-powered Media today.. This being the case, i just wonder how easy it was for us to keep pace with the changing world just by doing the kind of daily tasks that we do.. No wonder there is a stereotypic opinion about all the IT people in India.. The common man sees all of us as rich people because of the ever increasing gap between the two wider classes..Well.. Am i deviating from the topic.. where is the end of the crisis then ?? Its right here.. In the human mind, which is essentially the most complex data structure anyone has ever known in this whole world.. Trust me. if you keep thinking about multiple things.. you will eventually start enjoying it.. If you restrict yourself to just yourself, then you are more than likely to be a victim of VLSB (Ahh !! I had to use my jargon). The Internet can be so effectively used.. The other fact about computers and internet is that while we as IT professionals are almost dead tired with using computers and are no more fascinated by the opening page of Windows Vista, the others are just starting to grow their interests in it.. People are getting to use more and more internet these days.. There are Chinese farmers who use laptops to maintain inventories.. IT has really converged the whole world to one direction.. This is the time for us (IT guys) to rise up and make a difference in what we could do.. Eventually everyone is more than likely to develop an aversion to using computers in the long run.. So.. my way out of this mess will be the simplest possible.. It offers genuine happiness.. Think about the surprises, the various elements in this world.. the way your close ones turn you down sometimes for some reason.. (Its a surprise.. :)) Every change good or bad is a surprise in one way or the other.. you could call it shock sometimes but you can look at any shock as a surprise.. Can you deny that ?? WTC was rammed by two domestic flights.. This is a shock.. How the Taliban managed to breach the High Profile US National Security to execute their plan is a surprise.. !!! If you start seeing only the positive out of everything that happens.. there is no crisis in the mind.. So.. the mind however complex in structure has a very straight forward way to manage the complexity effeciently... It is all about thinking.. The way you think makes you what you are.. I know all these are redundant hearing but is it not worth mentioning all this again and again ?? It is all truly philosophical.. and it is all so true or atleast when you start believing it you have a bettered mind.. Thats right.. I have become more philosophical than i had ever imagined. For any complex issue in real life, i started giving philosophical answers that my friends dont talk to me about most topics.. LOLzz.. A philosopher's talk is always plain un-productive stuff.. Philosopher always assumes he is right though he is not sure about that.. the statements made by him will take a safe stance that it would to be too hard to disprove any of it.. All this talent is a direct outcome of prolonged exposure to VLSB. So.. how is that now ?? VLSB can make you a Socrates (Jus Kidding !!).. The point i am trying to make here is not just one.. I am making several points.. or rather trying to do so.. Widen your interests.. Width is preferrable to Depth.. If you focus on depth.. you will never have time to know about the Width.. You have a problem and you think of a solution and start working on it.. Let us assume that the chosen solution is not the best ideal way to resolve the issue, If you had focussed only on the depth (i.e) only on that solution you might have a tough time getting back from your path.. If you have the width well defined, there can be alternate solutions.. The moral here is.. Do not focus on any one thing and lose all others.. If that happens, you could be productive on one line but the gross output will be low.. On the other hand, if you do have the width well set, your gross output will always be above average.. just think about it.. you got yourself interested in several things.. you always have limited stress because you have other things to worry about in life.. the overall outcome is very good with this approach.. right now i switched to this mode.. In simpler words you can say it is always best to take things easy... and respond with a.. Oh Ok.. So wat next then ??
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Monday, June 11, 2007
"The Great Mental Crisis -Part II- The Other Extreme"
I deeply regret my absence in contributing to my own blog... I sincerely apologise to the few readers of my blog and i also vouch to contribute more regularly in the coming days.. Its just that i am a bit lazy these days..
Previously when i wrote on "The Great Mental Crisis", i was talking about what excess work can do to "A Beautiful Mind".. (yah.. like mine).. Now i just feel like having experienced too many things in very little time. For the past 4 months, i have been living in Sweden. These 4 months have gone fast like 4 weeks in contrast with the 3 months i had spent at Hyderabad which went like 3 years.. on and on and on.. Those were the days when every day was like a week with all actual weekends weakened. The only good thing was that lots of learning actually happened while doing so much of work in a day. I did not like it then, the exploitation i had undergone to meet business needs (as they call it). But in the last 4 months of my work (i mean.. so called "Work") in Sweden, i have lived the other extreme. With some carppy work to do most of the time, i felt nothing else but boredom.. The change of place or the classic "On-Site" effect meant almost nothing to me... without my pals around, without home-food, without proper work, it was too tough and finally i have learnt something from here too.. If you are a good learner and if you are in the formative years of your career.. you need to be doing proper work or atleast try to apply something that you have learnt in college.. There should be some food for thought all the time if Jack should not be a dull boy... When the nature of work is not good.. or in corporate terms, if the "Job Profile" of an individual is not contributing to his/her own career.. then its a total waste or in much simpler terms.... you are into a "Nonsensical Iterative Job" that requires no thought.. Any human can be trained to fit into that routine process.. Then why do we need a Engineering degree here for ?? I do agree that there is a vital factor which i might have missed out.. "Money" !! You can certainly earn lots by carrying out all given tasks by agreeing to re-locate anywhere in the world to do that task.. but the question is "Is it only money that is needed over the long run ??" .. I am not talking about people who just wanna live happily with all the money they have earnt.. I am talking about real people.. people who wanna earn respect and earn people over the long run.. and most of all the people who wanna do justice to their proffessional life.. If you stay abroad and work for say 2 years, there is a different kind of exposure you get and a business outlook about how things work differently in different parts of the world... you get to travel to other places, see all 7 wonders but where are we heading to ??? I dont see a logical constructive purpose in this routine which we follow... I read somewhere, in one of the news web-sites that.. there was no mention about the programming skills posessed by Indians at the various creations presented at the International IT Summit where all our CEOs and Enterpreneurs were supposedly seated as spectators. The background reason is that all Indians come under the category "Coders".. which is a "narrow, non-inovative and stressful" activity.. and its just a part of what is seen as actual "Programming" according to international IT standards. All that you need to know is the right technology and some skills of planning code re-use (we avoid using copy-paste everytime because its not simple copy-paste anyways).. because we had the number of people required to do all these boring activities at the lowest price, we are all still part of the affectionately called IT boom in India. On the other side of the whole bigger issue, there is no doubt that the IT revolution although complex to understand has improved the quality of life of milions in India. But the fact also remains that when BMW cars are so common in the developed countries, there are people who drag all their friends out of their houses just to spot a single BMW car that passes by on a Indian tar road and they still feel lucky about having seen one. Its a "Lose to Win" situation. We individuals are willing to lose our health, dreams , time and acquired knowledge for money and quality of life. Its typically like this.. you lose 4, you gain 2 but there are some hidden weightages attached to all these 6. We dont consider that and go by rough approx figures because we are way out of touch from doing things the "Engineering" way. You could not have passed basic Engineering Mathematics if you had calculated the same way few years back. Mind you the actual net loss on compromising on these 4 to gain those 2 as i see it is pretty high and also its effects are irreversible. When this issue is viewed from a much farther distance in order to get a fuller view, one could also find that it is the very same "Brain in Drain" problem that has been under constant debate ever since we were born. We had acquired all the necessary knowledge since ages but had never bothered to apply it. The net result we could not make an automobile engine to challenge "Honda", we couldnt make a car to challenge "TOYOTA", we couldnt manufacture any electronic device to challenge "SONY" and last but not the least, even at the peak of the IT revolution India has no indigenous IT products.. nothing to challenge Intel, AMD, Microsoft or Google !!! All we do is that submit papers to our local HRs and wait for new papers from these booming companies... I know this is true.. I see it everywhere, everyday !! When do we manufacture our own computer Chip ?? How long is the boom guaranteed to the Services industry ?? What if everything gets automated by use of Advanced Robotics and Nano technology blah blah.... ?? I have a remote feeling that in the near future, there will be no Japanese Clients who outsource projects to Indian service indutries because i guess they will have all these boring tasks automated using Robots in the next 5 years (just a thought). There is no bigger insult than a human making another artificial human that can carry out all your tasks at office. That would only mean that the individuality of the "Incredible India"n is lost. I can be continuously talkative if this is the going to be the topic.. I will stop for time being.. May be there will be a Part III to finish the Mental Crisis Trilogy !! Your comments most welcome...
Previously when i wrote on "The Great Mental Crisis", i was talking about what excess work can do to "A Beautiful Mind".. (yah.. like mine).. Now i just feel like having experienced too many things in very little time. For the past 4 months, i have been living in Sweden. These 4 months have gone fast like 4 weeks in contrast with the 3 months i had spent at Hyderabad which went like 3 years.. on and on and on.. Those were the days when every day was like a week with all actual weekends weakened. The only good thing was that lots of learning actually happened while doing so much of work in a day. I did not like it then, the exploitation i had undergone to meet business needs (as they call it). But in the last 4 months of my work (i mean.. so called "Work") in Sweden, i have lived the other extreme. With some carppy work to do most of the time, i felt nothing else but boredom.. The change of place or the classic "On-Site" effect meant almost nothing to me... without my pals around, without home-food, without proper work, it was too tough and finally i have learnt something from here too.. If you are a good learner and if you are in the formative years of your career.. you need to be doing proper work or atleast try to apply something that you have learnt in college.. There should be some food for thought all the time if Jack should not be a dull boy... When the nature of work is not good.. or in corporate terms, if the "Job Profile" of an individual is not contributing to his/her own career.. then its a total waste or in much simpler terms.... you are into a "Nonsensical Iterative Job" that requires no thought.. Any human can be trained to fit into that routine process.. Then why do we need a Engineering degree here for ?? I do agree that there is a vital factor which i might have missed out.. "Money" !! You can certainly earn lots by carrying out all given tasks by agreeing to re-locate anywhere in the world to do that task.. but the question is "Is it only money that is needed over the long run ??" .. I am not talking about people who just wanna live happily with all the money they have earnt.. I am talking about real people.. people who wanna earn respect and earn people over the long run.. and most of all the people who wanna do justice to their proffessional life.. If you stay abroad and work for say 2 years, there is a different kind of exposure you get and a business outlook about how things work differently in different parts of the world... you get to travel to other places, see all 7 wonders but where are we heading to ??? I dont see a logical constructive purpose in this routine which we follow... I read somewhere, in one of the news web-sites that.. there was no mention about the programming skills posessed by Indians at the various creations presented at the International IT Summit where all our CEOs and Enterpreneurs were supposedly seated as spectators. The background reason is that all Indians come under the category "Coders".. which is a "narrow, non-inovative and stressful" activity.. and its just a part of what is seen as actual "Programming" according to international IT standards. All that you need to know is the right technology and some skills of planning code re-use (we avoid using copy-paste everytime because its not simple copy-paste anyways).. because we had the number of people required to do all these boring activities at the lowest price, we are all still part of the affectionately called IT boom in India. On the other side of the whole bigger issue, there is no doubt that the IT revolution although complex to understand has improved the quality of life of milions in India. But the fact also remains that when BMW cars are so common in the developed countries, there are people who drag all their friends out of their houses just to spot a single BMW car that passes by on a Indian tar road and they still feel lucky about having seen one. Its a "Lose to Win" situation. We individuals are willing to lose our health, dreams , time and acquired knowledge for money and quality of life. Its typically like this.. you lose 4, you gain 2 but there are some hidden weightages attached to all these 6. We dont consider that and go by rough approx figures because we are way out of touch from doing things the "Engineering" way. You could not have passed basic Engineering Mathematics if you had calculated the same way few years back. Mind you the actual net loss on compromising on these 4 to gain those 2 as i see it is pretty high and also its effects are irreversible. When this issue is viewed from a much farther distance in order to get a fuller view, one could also find that it is the very same "Brain in Drain" problem that has been under constant debate ever since we were born. We had acquired all the necessary knowledge since ages but had never bothered to apply it. The net result we could not make an automobile engine to challenge "Honda", we couldnt make a car to challenge "TOYOTA", we couldnt manufacture any electronic device to challenge "SONY" and last but not the least, even at the peak of the IT revolution India has no indigenous IT products.. nothing to challenge Intel, AMD, Microsoft or Google !!! All we do is that submit papers to our local HRs and wait for new papers from these booming companies... I know this is true.. I see it everywhere, everyday !! When do we manufacture our own computer Chip ?? How long is the boom guaranteed to the Services industry ?? What if everything gets automated by use of Advanced Robotics and Nano technology blah blah.... ?? I have a remote feeling that in the near future, there will be no Japanese Clients who outsource projects to Indian service indutries because i guess they will have all these boring tasks automated using Robots in the next 5 years (just a thought). There is no bigger insult than a human making another artificial human that can carry out all your tasks at office. That would only mean that the individuality of the "Incredible India"n is lost. I can be continuously talkative if this is the going to be the topic.. I will stop for time being.. May be there will be a Part III to finish the Mental Crisis Trilogy !! Your comments most welcome...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
"The Great Mental Crisis - Part I - Hell with WORK !!"
Dear All,
Sorry for not using this blog for a long time. The reasons are pretty genuine and straight forward though. I have been going through one very bad phase of my life for a long time.. for about an year to be precise... I dont have a problem with my Health, Money or Food. I dont have a problem with people around me.. I dont have a problem with the way the world is treating me... but then you can ask me " What the F*** is your exact problem then?? " .. i can tell you.. "not knowing the exact answer to that question" is the exact problem.. yup.. thats the best way i can explain whats bothering my interests in Life currently!! Seriously.. i still remember the period between 2001 to 2005... not one single day in those 4 years has been so long and boring like how i feel almost everyday now !! I curse the messy work routine for this state of mine.. Having passed out of college as a "Great Gold Medal Stud With a fine Attitude" a year back , i am now a "Totally Confused and Bored Java,Struts,Hibernate Resource With No Sense of Time and No Time for People"... This is not what i wanted... Thanks to the big circle of friends i have got.. They are the only ones who keep me going fine and thats why i am able to Blog from Work on a nice weekday... Its not that i am jobless here at work.. but the fact is that , I got into a great rare project where a fresher could learn every possible hot and happening technology he/she would never have dreamt of learning.. Struts, Hibernate, Spring, AJAX using a UNIX-JBoss Server and involving several external systems like Billing, Order Management, CRM and what not !!... sorry for all those Jargons.. i was basically trying to tell you the extent of learning that i did.. and all in one line.. thats why !! now..coming back to the crux of the topic.. when you learn so much.. you dont get "Gold Medals at Work" like in college.. you only get "MORE WORK"... when they talk lots about your skills it only means they have a wreckless number of tasks specially piled up for you.. When you try to be a "Smart Worker" (like me) instead of being a "Hard Worker" (people who slog to give their life and soul to the functionality).. you get to discover that managers are "Smarter Workers".. If i complete a task assigned to me in a given time or before estimated time (which is usually wrong).. You are most likely to be given one more bigger task to be completed before the previously estimated time itself.. so.. Having been through such thoroughly proffessional moments in life, I discovered that "more than being smart, one needs to be politically smart too".. now that i am an experienced developer and that i have become a critical resource in my project.. i am able to control the rate of flow of input tasks that come to me using my "Political Smartness" and thats how i find time to blog oin a busy thursday morning when Clients are screaming at production failures!! The net effect of the work routin and all this.. I am now unable to plan anything for my future.. I planned the GRE, booked the date, postponed it and finally cancelled it to save atleast $50.. so that flopped 2 years back.. I planned the CAT.. i have around 20kg of study material for CAT alone.. (you read it right) I have multiple copies of the same book passed on by my cousins one by one.. then finally when i started planning, i was deputed to Hyderabad by my employer on client side work... and now the application form for CAT 2006 is still in my cup-board.. Now, "i am planning to plan something with a proper plan" !! I have a feeling i have become ineffecient in everything else other than the technologies learnt and code with which i spend 12 hours a day on an average.. I know a lot of my friends would feel the same.. but may be not as much as me !! Thats a short report on the "Story of a Bright Student turning into a Wreckless Software Professional.. ".. expect some more in the near future...
Sorry for not using this blog for a long time. The reasons are pretty genuine and straight forward though. I have been going through one very bad phase of my life for a long time.. for about an year to be precise... I dont have a problem with my Health, Money or Food. I dont have a problem with people around me.. I dont have a problem with the way the world is treating me... but then you can ask me " What the F*** is your exact problem then?? " .. i can tell you.. "not knowing the exact answer to that question" is the exact problem.. yup.. thats the best way i can explain whats bothering my interests in Life currently!! Seriously.. i still remember the period between 2001 to 2005... not one single day in those 4 years has been so long and boring like how i feel almost everyday now !! I curse the messy work routine for this state of mine.. Having passed out of college as a "Great Gold Medal Stud With a fine Attitude" a year back , i am now a "Totally Confused and Bored Java,Struts,Hibernate Resource With No Sense of Time and No Time for People"... This is not what i wanted... Thanks to the big circle of friends i have got.. They are the only ones who keep me going fine and thats why i am able to Blog from Work on a nice weekday... Its not that i am jobless here at work.. but the fact is that , I got into a great rare project where a fresher could learn every possible hot and happening technology he/she would never have dreamt of learning.. Struts, Hibernate, Spring, AJAX using a UNIX-JBoss Server and involving several external systems like Billing, Order Management, CRM and what not !!... sorry for all those Jargons.. i was basically trying to tell you the extent of learning that i did.. and all in one line.. thats why !! now..coming back to the crux of the topic.. when you learn so much.. you dont get "Gold Medals at Work" like in college.. you only get "MORE WORK"... when they talk lots about your skills it only means they have a wreckless number of tasks specially piled up for you.. When you try to be a "Smart Worker" (like me) instead of being a "Hard Worker" (people who slog to give their life and soul to the functionality).. you get to discover that managers are "Smarter Workers".. If i complete a task assigned to me in a given time or before estimated time (which is usually wrong).. You are most likely to be given one more bigger task to be completed before the previously estimated time itself.. so.. Having been through such thoroughly proffessional moments in life, I discovered that "more than being smart, one needs to be politically smart too".. now that i am an experienced developer and that i have become a critical resource in my project.. i am able to control the rate of flow of input tasks that come to me using my "Political Smartness" and thats how i find time to blog oin a busy thursday morning when Clients are screaming at production failures!! The net effect of the work routin and all this.. I am now unable to plan anything for my future.. I planned the GRE, booked the date, postponed it and finally cancelled it to save atleast $50.. so that flopped 2 years back.. I planned the CAT.. i have around 20kg of study material for CAT alone.. (you read it right) I have multiple copies of the same book passed on by my cousins one by one.. then finally when i started planning, i was deputed to Hyderabad by my employer on client side work... and now the application form for CAT 2006 is still in my cup-board.. Now, "i am planning to plan something with a proper plan" !! I have a feeling i have become ineffecient in everything else other than the technologies learnt and code with which i spend 12 hours a day on an average.. I know a lot of my friends would feel the same.. but may be not as much as me !! Thats a short report on the "Story of a Bright Student turning into a Wreckless Software Professional.. ".. expect some more in the near future...
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Thursday, January 05, 2006
The Road that i travelled !!
Thats one more photo to elaborate my skill in mobile photography .. !! people who studied with me must know what that is... !! but look at the effect.. i took it from my car and it finally gives an AUTOGRAPH effect depicting the road that i have travelled by... Sorry if u dint feel it.. u know sometimes.. I AM CRAZY !!
My Workplace... TIDEL PARK !!
This is the office i visit once in a while... Trust me.. i do !! The photo was taken by me from the parking lot using my mobile!!
Friday, August 05, 2005
Kadha Kelu.. Kadha Kelu...
indha sogha kadhaya kelungappa yellaarum
my frenzzz both from school 'n' college for the past few weeks have been mailing me things like:
"Machaan i hav reached Arizonada.. whats up??"
"Hey ... i am now orkutting from Florida.. so what plans till you join??"
"hida yeppadi irukkey... am in Kentucky now... inga romba kuliridhuda... am looking for a nice house here... whats up on your side"
"Dude... am in Dallas now... its really cool here"
"Mamu.. naan Cincinaati vandhu sendhuttenda... inga yellaam semma babesda... chancey illa"
yenakku TENSION THAANGALA... vazhakkam pola beachla poi bajji saapten naan avalodhaan !!!!
What to do???
Temme a way out of this....
my frenzzz both from school 'n' college for the past few weeks have been mailing me things like:
"Machaan i hav reached Arizonada.. whats up??"
"Hey ... i am now orkutting from Florida.. so what plans till you join??"
"hida yeppadi irukkey... am in Kentucky now... inga romba kuliridhuda... am looking for a nice house here... whats up on your side"
"Dude... am in Dallas now... its really cool here"
"Mamu.. naan Cincinaati vandhu sendhuttenda... inga yellaam semma babesda... chancey illa"
yenakku TENSION THAANGALA... vazhakkam pola beachla poi bajji saapten naan avalodhaan !!!!
What to do???
Temme a way out of this....
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