This is absolutely unbelievable. I'm writing this post out of no idea of what else to do with my time. So no one obviously expects much. Can't say I'm brimming with creative juices. If anything, they would be crushed by the consciousness of an empty hour with a crore new faces in Gurgaon, few new faces that seem interested, an empty canvass as this and a sleep-deprived me.
So, for a quick update, I'm in Gurgaon now, in a company called Sapient Nitro. Just got here yesterday, underwent a chaotic induction (mostly boring) session, an arbid fire alarm drill, a quick introduction to the team, a hap-hazard running to the cab, etc.
For starters, I didn't think I'd be in for a task as this one and a company this large. I was looking at a creative agency and not an IT behemoth. But this agency happens to be a division of this IT place. Yes conflicting places. Try to use your hands while you imagine this. IT on the one hand and an agency on the other. Suited-up coding, consulting people and the jeaned-up, m***** *******-touting, the cooler (for the lack of a more suitable and a less judgemental descriptor) agency ideators. So I'll tell you what that would amount to PRACTICALLY. Because Im' still entry-level something, get ready by 7.30 in the groggy morning to catch one of the crore cab services, rush like a berserk horse, getting nervous for ablutions, ofcourse eventually getting to the office way and I mean way before my team members who put on their thinking caps only sometime later, probably staying back till late (because thinking caps are most effective then), First In Last Out (FILO in stock management), etc. Hmmph...and sigh already. God Bless me.
So like everything so radical (Radically different I mean), it needs some getting used to. Getting used to waiting it out for people in the cab, shutting between the many floors of the big, glassy, corporate building in the big, glassy, corporate and may I add linear Gurgaon (Except a few interesting places to eat). Getting used to the consequences of missing office facilities, less prompt-emails, paying for the parking facilities, similar-looking men and women (Can understand men, but women?? I expect them to all look different, they have the world to choose from) who have the same leashes in their necks that they use to yes, swipe, the hundred coffee-vending machines, jams at the foyer, near the lifts, crowded cafeterias that already boast good business early mornings, etc.
So I'm looking forward to all this getting used to, to some of this hard-core IT routine and even more major creative ideation at the agency.
If they asked you to assess the prose in some MBA exam, I know one would call it a 'slightly apprehensive tone' and would also be correct perhaps but I'll tell you what, I'm already getting a handle at this and promsise to make it an enjoyable experience.
Maybe I'll write again as I reach the plush (the consultancy type) guest-house with on the house wi-fi, which is again thanks to the moneyed IT business :).
Till then
Later
3 comments:
it's a 'more than slightly apprehensive tone'... i understand you like the small and the manageable, but also think bombay may have toughened you up a bit... anyway, i would probably react in the same way... too big and too corporate and too IT = fear that it might be unnecessarily big and boring... but not to worry, the agency itself is small and still being in a fishbowl inside an ocean may in fact be a very interesting experience!! and i'm coming to gurgaon soon to meet you!!
Welcome to the real world!
and i went from an agency to a consultancy. :|
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