Read some such lists and was disappointed. Most are the silly 'first pay check makes you happy' and 'Mondays are awful' kind, probably articles bought from content writers. And seriously how happy is the first check going to make you at 15k/month.
So I make some more observations.
1. It's almost like college.
This is especially true if you were a straight-A student. Just another place where you go in the morning and out in the evening, surrounded by people falling around into your age group. There you had professors, it's a boss here. There it was casuals, here formals (at times not even that).
2. The Salary Is Never Enough
You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. You just won't connect with us on this point.
Beer nights every Saturday. Movies the next morning. And you always have buy new clothes to look your best at work right? It's just not your fault. Add to that oversleeping and taking the rick to work instead of walking. Oh! and forget getting anything from dear parents anymore, in fact they may handover a few bills to just "take care of it and we'll see later".
3. Worrying About How Your Experience Will Count
Again. You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. The glory is all yours here too.
For the rest of us though it's a constant worry in the back of our heads with great plans about changing the job next year for that 15k increment.
4. About Mondays
"Mondays suck" is kind of on top on some such lists, I don't fucking get that. Such thoughts only come to your head if your work ethic is like that of a bonded slave laborer in which your job is a necessity imposed upon you by society and you feel entitled to a good life and standard of living which should be provided to you without you having to earn it.
When you develop a work ethic where you a confident man trades his skills and creates value for someone and earns his living on this planet—Mondays are awesome.
5. Grown Up Yes. Grown Up No
Remember how during school days, every year you would say to yourself "now I'm in 6th, not a child anymore" then "now I'm in 10th, not a child anymore", then college and now while receiving your first pay check you will not tell but ask yourself whether you finally are an adult or not.
After all earning your living is an important part of the "become an adult" ritual. Next is marriage and parenthood (which I'm working to change). The final I'm sure is death.
6. Friends Or Colleagues
This confusion is the result of society constantly feeding us the idea that everybody at work is just waiting to fuck you over so you should always watch out. In a field like marketing this is probably the case, it's skill less work so attracts halfwits anyway, bitching and back stabbing comes easy—empty mind, devils home and all. In a tough demanding environment like programming this is not the case, they run on logic after all.
7. Is This For Me?
Now this is for software developers. By the end of your first month when you realize it took you a week to get that continuous integration to work, you tell yourself you're done. Then there's all those hours spent on stackoverflow scavenging for ready to use code.
And now that it's once started you are probably going to do for most if not the rest of your life!
Can't think of a equivalent for other fields here, sending emails and calling comes naturally to most of us.
8. Office Dating
In this area too we're always told how things can get really bad and messy. It's not even really that serious. The worst is a break up and you two never talking to each other—no victims. So you should just go for it if you into someone. And obviously you will keep most of it outside the work hours, because work is just too sacred, of course unless it's marketing, in that case you're just paid for this practically.
So I make some more observations.
1. It's almost like college.
This is especially true if you were a straight-A student. Just another place where you go in the morning and out in the evening, surrounded by people falling around into your age group. There you had professors, it's a boss here. There it was casuals, here formals (at times not even that).
2. The Salary Is Never Enough
You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. You just won't connect with us on this point.
Beer nights every Saturday. Movies the next morning. And you always have buy new clothes to look your best at work right? It's just not your fault. Add to that oversleeping and taking the rick to work instead of walking. Oh! and forget getting anything from dear parents anymore, in fact they may handover a few bills to just "take care of it and we'll see later".
3. Worrying About How Your Experience Will Count
Again. You may skip this if your starting package is 6Lacs+. The glory is all yours here too.
For the rest of us though it's a constant worry in the back of our heads with great plans about changing the job next year for that 15k increment.
4. About Mondays
When you develop a work ethic where you a confident man trades his skills and creates value for someone and earns his living on this planet—Mondays are awesome.
5. Grown Up Yes. Grown Up No
Remember how during school days, every year you would say to yourself "now I'm in 6th, not a child anymore" then "now I'm in 10th, not a child anymore", then college and now while receiving your first pay check you will not tell but ask yourself whether you finally are an adult or not.
After all earning your living is an important part of the "become an adult" ritual. Next is marriage and parenthood (which I'm working to change). The final I'm sure is death.
6. Friends Or Colleagues
This confusion is the result of society constantly feeding us the idea that everybody at work is just waiting to fuck you over so you should always watch out. In a field like marketing this is probably the case, it's skill less work so attracts halfwits anyway, bitching and back stabbing comes easy—empty mind, devils home and all. In a tough demanding environment like programming this is not the case, they run on logic after all.
7. Is This For Me?
And now that it's once started you are probably going to do for most if not the rest of your life!
Can't think of a equivalent for other fields here, sending emails and calling comes naturally to most of us.
8. Office Dating
In this area too we're always told how things can get really bad and messy. It's not even really that serious. The worst is a break up and you two never talking to each other—no victims. So you should just go for it if you into someone. And obviously you will keep most of it outside the work hours, because work is just too sacred, of course unless it's marketing, in that case you're just paid for this practically.
