One of the very new experiences for me…Never really thought I would sit in any office and right down a post for my blog…interesting:)
Office space is always a charged up environment, and even more so in my nature of work… Recruitment is such a people oriented –people dependent natured work that its insanely challenging. Your results never depend on your efforts but un fairly dependent on other people’s fancies and frills. Recruiters reading this would definitely understand what I mean…
The thought process juggling around in my mind right now is the choices we make in our professional lives. Here I m not talking about big choices in terms of job change, business choices, etc
What I am thinking of are the smaller choices, soft choices we make… may be our choice of how we speak.. our choice of what to speak where.. our choice of maintaining integrity, integrity towards ourselves and integrity towards others who work with us. All the concepts of team / team cohesiveness / co-ordination of work.. all these principles we learn about(rather just talk about) in management classes are mostly kept within the four walls of classroom or kept at the back of our heads.
What happens to our consciousness? What happens to the ‘moral science’ lessons that were taught in grade2 ? Or was it just me with a couple of handful of people who actually got these lessons? Is it all about education in the end? Or is it about REAL education.. Education- I don’t mean an IIT /IIM degree.. I don’t mean a fancy US/UK degree…. An Education that enables us to make the right choices… An education not from the mugging up formulae and reproducing them on examination paper, An education that comes from your introspection, your experiences, education from elders, from seniors, from your own experiences is the best education we can get…. It’s a free source rather in web lingo, an ‘open source’ we are exposed to… then why is there an alarming degradation in people’s professional behavior ? Was it always like this? Am I the one whose obviously learning it right now? Is this what is growing, being an adult?
Is being an professional /working adult equal to – losing your integrity, playing the blame game, shrugging your responsibilities – and just saving your *** all the time… keeping the top management happy and leaving behind your peers or juniors?
I thought Growing up was tough…. but today I think learning through experience is tougher and getting an education from within is the toughest !!!!
