My Ideal Job
An ideal job for many is the next level. It’s a never ending quest for continuous up gradation in all spheres. There is always more to achieve. An ideal job, for many, is their ultimate ambition. Not penultimate, but ultimate. Hardly does life take one according to his or her plans. In fact, sixty years or more of life would have been quite dull and monotonous if it were to be predictable. That whimsical and unpredictable nature of life, often forces one to keep altering his so called ‘ideal job.’ Nevertheless, all my thoughts are valid only at the time being. That is the disclaimer that I make, and I hold my right to change my thoughts on my ‘ideal job’ at my whim or at least at the next time I start day dreaming.
I believe that an individual’s ideal job is one which he would like to do without thinking of it as one’s his fate. He should have a hunger for that job. He should take up that job himself without accepting what his destiny offers him. An ideal job is something that the individual is happy doing and attains satisfaction. It is a job which would be very much challenging and he would have to take pains in the beginning, but all this would result in success at a later point of time. The ideal job that I would like to pursue abides by whatever I have told here. So let’s see what it is.
Well, each and every person would have a dream in his/her mind to become something in life. This particular dream is initiated during childhood. Even I, as a child, saw myself to be in a particular profession-doctor! It’s not very different right? Almost every child, even you, would have had dreams to be an engineer or a doctor. Time just kept changing and so did my ambitions. When I used to see my teacher teaching in the class, I wanted to become a teacher. When I was in my teens and went to beauty parlour, I wanted to become a beautician. Once I started learning dance, and inspired by my dance teacher, I wanted to become a classical dance teacher. When I saw the newsreader on different channels, I wanted to become a newsreader. There were instances when I used to read out the newspaper to myself to just check my pronunciation and fluency in whatever I was reading. When I used to see the airhostesses in the flight, I would dream of being one myself. Well, there are no limits for our dreams, right? So nothing wrong in that. And of course, like every adolescent girl thinks of, I wanted to become an actress too, when I saw those stars dancing and acting. When I started reading CSR (Competition Success Review), I waned to become an IAS officer. And the final one - when I read Nancy Drew and used to see one of the famous series during those days - CID, I wanted to become a detective.
Well, all my dreams since my childhood till I got into my college just remained as dreams. The reality was that I eventually wanted to become a software engineer which I had never dreamt of. Not even once!!! When I was in my third year of college, I thought that whatever I have dreamt would just remain as a dream. The only one that was tad bit close to turn into reality was the software professional dream. Well, as every engineering student has this tradition of undergoing the placement process, so was my case. The first company that visited our college was Patni Computer Systems. This company visited our college exactly after 3 days of college reopening during the third year. Getting placed was kind of mandatory for everyone as otherwise it would be quite difficult to get placed outside the college. Fortunately or unfortunately, I got placed in that company. Fortunately because, then I did not have to worry about placements and could sit tension-free for the next 2 yrs. It was unfortunate because of two reasons. One was that I would have to join in Mumbai, very much far from my hometown, Palakkad, Kerala. And the other one, since the company had many Japanese projects coming in, all employees had to learn Japanese. But then, once my college got over, I somehow got placed in Aditi Technologies as a fresher through a consultancy and I felt that I have taken a wise decision. Yes, it is the right decision because I would not have got to learn so much and wouldn’t have got so much exposure if I was in a big company like Patni.
All freshers placed at Patni had to undergo the Japanese training and clear 2 levels. De facto, rigorous Japanese training. We had a tough time as it was conducted during the weekends and we were the only souls in the entire college attending classes. Initially, I had an aversion towards the language. But later, as time passed by I started developing a penchant towards it. Japanese is said to be one of the toughest languages in the world. It is one of the most interesting languages too. Now, please don't keep wondering why I am talking so much about Japanese, when I was supposed to tell about my ideal job. Well, it is all related to Japanese!!! Coming back to the language, this language's Grammar is not like English Grammar but somewhat similar to our traditional languages. There are three types of scripts in Japanese language – Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Hiragana is the one normally used whereas Katakana is used for writing foreign names (of people, companies, countries, etc.) in Japanese. Japanese can be written in English too and when it is done so, it is called Romaji.
For eg:- O namaye wah, is Romaji. It means exactly what you may have thought. It is 'What is your name?'
Kanji (It is pronounced as Kaanji) is a script that is with Hiragana and used. Japanese can be written exclusively using Hiragana or using both Hiragana and Kanjis. The latter one is used mostly. Kanjis are symbols which are like pictures that everyone would have seen. These Kanjis are derived from Chinese. There are about 2000 Kanjis in this language. These Kanjis represent a thing, a word or a part of a word. There are individual Kanjis for sun, moon, mountains, etc. But river is represented by two Kanjis. Moreover these Kanjis take up different pronunciation and also different meaning when it is used with other Kanjis. And that is exactly why foreigners find it difficult while learning these Kanjis. It is almost impossible to learn all the 2000 Kanjis but on an average, a Japanese person knows almost 75% of them.
The Japanese exam is conducted on the 2nd Sunday of December. I took up the first level in December 2005. I had around 2-3 weeks to prepare after my semester exams. Believe me; I had spent more hours of study than I had spent for my Semester exams. That’s simply because, it was a question of my career. The pass percentage was 60. i.e. 240/400. I feared a lot. I cleared with 75%. Thank God!!! The next one came in 2006. This time I had exactly 15 days. I had covered up almost 60% during college but these 15 days were really crucial. And those days I used to shut myself in the room and came out only for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even my parents were surprised and thought that I was moving away from them. There was a section on listening and that was the most difficult one. The Japanese accent was very difficult to understand. In class, the teacher played different tapes and made us listen. We even watched a few Japanese movies starting with 'The Last Samurai'. Remember the Japanese dialogues in that? The number of Kanjis that we had to learn this time was around 250 whereas the first level had just 80. In my whole life, I have never worked as hard as I had done for my Japanese exams. Fortunately I passed this one with a 71%. This time I topped my college. By this time, I just almost fell in love with the language. Immediately after college, I got placed in Aditi Technologies and hence, I never got an opportunity to use that language.
I feel wise enough, as of 9:47 am, 20th of June, to have realized that ideal job isn’t just a position that one holds. A job title isn’t held by an individual for long. There is always the longing for the next level, whatever it may be. An ideal job is a JOURNEY. A job is that is quite ideal, shouldn’t have much to do with the short term gains. A long term approach in planning and implementing ones’ ideas can turn mere satisfactions to euphoria.
So, here starts my Ideal Job. I am not sure whether I will be able to achieve this new dream of mine of starting Japanese institutes all over India but I would surely like to. If I should make it happen, then how should I groom myself? How should I fine tune myself? I would like to work at Aditi for a few more years. And if I get the right opportunity at the right time, I would like to pursue an MBA. So why should I do an MBA? Is it related to my ideal job in any way? What specialization should I choose? Should I immediately start the institute after my MBA? There are so many questions. I believe that I have to do an MBA because ultimately, it is all about 'MANAGING'.
I believe that an MBA helps you in learning case studies of different businesses and their successes and failures. This would give me an idea how should I start and proceed efficiently with respect to my job. Moreover, it would also give me an idea of the risks that I might have to take and also the fact that success doesn't come immediately. MBA helps in developing the leadership qualities and improving the communication skills too. Leadership qualities are obviously required as I would be having people working under me. And communication skills are important too, as I would not only like to start an institute but also be a faculty there. And I believe that I can be a good one, provided my communication skills are really excellent. There are good institutes which offer double specializations. I would like to specialize on Marketing and Finance. This is because I should be able to bring about an impression that this particular institute is the best in the country. It would be named, or should I say branded- Nihongo No Kenshusei-‘Japanese Possession Institute.’
So why would I go about starting a Japanese institute? And is my Ideal Job worth struggling? Is it worth investing so much (for my studies and later for initial investment)? Well, why not? It is obviously worth investing. One thing is that I would be doing what I want to and since I have got a liking towards the language. Secondly, as everyone knows, Japanese people are really technologically much more advanced than we Indians. Bringing this technology from Japan to India would be very much profitable. Mostly software companies in India have their clients in US. If we have equal number of clients in Japan too, it would be really advantageous in a way to learn their technology. Since they are technically advanced, pursuing an education there would also be a wonderful opportunity and expose the students to their new technologies. Right now, the different technological companies, be it software or electronics, are getting more and more Japanese clients. So, to get more Japanese clients or to pursue an education there, it is very important that foreigners have to learn Japanese. This is simply because the Japanese people don't know English!!! And they don't want to know. There are instances where if u works for Japanese clients, your OS would also be in Japanese. Yup. The whole Windows OS would be in Japanese!!! And you might have to chat with them online in Japanese. This would actually please them. So to gain something, you will have to take some pains.
The second thing is that this institute has to be targeted for a particular group of people. It is definitely not for the school or college going students unless and until their academics demands it. It would be for software and electronics professionals and also for those who have Japanese clients. For this, the task is to identify those companies who have Japanese clients. Now, this is a tough job and I have no idea how to go about it. But that's where, I believe that an MBA would help me. Once these companies are identified, we will have to go about campaigning to the companies to send their professionals to our institute for learning. The institute should also be flexible enough to send the faculty to the respective institutes and teach them.
Thirdly, once the institute performs well initially, it can to be opened at other places. For this again the same procedure has to be followed, but apart from that there might be some risks and equal competition if already there are some Japanese institutes. In this case, the institute has to deliver the best to the companies and should do exceedingly well. Students will be requested to review the teaching process. If, in case, there are any companies or even colleges, for that matter, at other places where the institute has not established its centre, then the institute should be flexible enough to send their faculty to that particular place provided there are enough number of candidates. This would be really helpful for the companies and colleges as well. Moreover if there are any other requirements, they would definitely look back to our institute in future. I got this idea because our Japanese faculties used to come from Mumbai to Coimbatore to teach us.
Fourthly, it would be good enough if some Japanese workshops are implemented once in 6 months or so. This can be open to all where in some tricks for learning the Kanjis and certain shortcuts for a few grammar patterns, etc. can be taught. A pamphlet can also be given with a few test papers and different Grammar patterns summarized. Apart from that a few tests can also be conducted state-wise or country-wise for continuous improvement of the students. It is not enough if the candidate learns the language once. This is because the candidate would soon forget if he learns just once. Hence, continuous revision is required. For instance, one easy way to learn the Kanjis would be to use flashcards.
Finally, motivation plays a very important factor to keep the candidates learning. Once the software employees undertake ‘On the Job Training’, it would be difficult for them to learn. This is because Japanese is not only about understanding but also putting in a lot of hard-work. Hence, some assignments have to be given in such a way that they apply what they have learnt. And they should be motivated to do so. This is the job of the faculty to keep them motivated. How to motivate them? This can be done by telling them how to learn in an interesting away For e.g. Use of flash cards for Kanjis. How much to learn in a day or a week? How much time they should allot in a day? And if they are working the whole day, it would be better if they study during the early morning.
Everything is done to attain a brand value for the institute and to make the Nihongo No Kenshusei institute the No. 1 in the country. If in case there is any demand for Japanese faculties, the companies should think of this institute in the first place and its flexibility in order to fulfill their demands. I’d also improve my own skills by finishing the further two levels of Japanese. Furthermore, I’d also like to bring in my life partner into this enterprise after marriage and work as a champion tag team both in the household and in the corporate world.
Work life balance is an issue which has been hitting the headlines more often now than before. I strongly advocate ‘work-life balance.’ But not in it’s orthodox and conventional sense. I wouldn’t like to leave the organization at 6pm because the previous generation used to do so in government jobs. But, on the contrary, I’d like to advocate ownership. There is an old saying which I recently heard in a farm a few days ago and I shall paraphrase it. Work life balance can be best explained by using an analogy of mother-child or farmer-rain. A mother has to care for the child if it cries be it the middle of the day or be it the middle of the night. She is never off-duty but she is on-love. A farmer can’t plant or harvest at his whim. The rains have to deal its cards and the farmer just gets to play a hand. Nature can play spoil sport, and often, it does. He can never be off-duty, but can be on-hope. This is exactly the same I’d expect in my ideal job or the ideal jobs that I create. One’s got to do what one best can. It’s one’s own enterprise whether it be a janitor or the chairman. After all, if one never feels ownership towards an organization, how can one hope to ‘mother’ it? I’m sure we’ll all be in consensus when I say that this is one quality that all leaders of organizations possess. This sure will make work feel like privilege and not a chore. Perfect work life balance-unorthodox ishtyle!
Intramural sports leagues during the weekends, walking and running groups, classical music and dance classes for the children of employees, Wednesday-outdoor movie night, gold outings, fund raisers for charities etc. should be arranged for by my organization’s internal activities committee members which should be a voluntary position. All these will keep the spirits of the employees at its best. This should also be a great social and networking opportunity for the members. This is how one can balance work and life without having to cut time off of either.
Ideal job is not a title, it is a journey. And I’d be the pilot-the one to steer the organization to greater heights. At the end of the day, my dream would be quite a fulfilling experience for me and hopefully, its faculty and clients as well. If I could spend about 10 hours shaping my business plan today, and that too being totally glued to my screen, I sure well can go ahead with the enterprise slowly churning the plan into reality. Again, my ‘ideal job’ may turn out to be completely different in a year, but I’ll keep my promise of being challenged, and having a fulfilling yet hectic lifestyle, no just for me but my family, my faculty, and my clients.
An ideal job for many is the next level. It’s a never ending quest for continuous up gradation in all spheres. There is always more to achieve. An ideal job, for many, is their ultimate ambition. Not penultimate, but ultimate. Hardly does life take one according to his or her plans. In fact, sixty years or more of life would have been quite dull and monotonous if it were to be predictable. That whimsical and unpredictable nature of life, often forces one to keep altering his so called ‘ideal job.’ Nevertheless, all my thoughts are valid only at the time being. That is the disclaimer that I make, and I hold my right to change my thoughts on my ‘ideal job’ at my whim or at least at the next time I start day dreaming.
I believe that an individual’s ideal job is one which he would like to do without thinking of it as one’s his fate. He should have a hunger for that job. He should take up that job himself without accepting what his destiny offers him. An ideal job is something that the individual is happy doing and attains satisfaction. It is a job which would be very much challenging and he would have to take pains in the beginning, but all this would result in success at a later point of time. The ideal job that I would like to pursue abides by whatever I have told here. So let’s see what it is.
Well, each and every person would have a dream in his/her mind to become something in life. This particular dream is initiated during childhood. Even I, as a child, saw myself to be in a particular profession-doctor! It’s not very different right? Almost every child, even you, would have had dreams to be an engineer or a doctor. Time just kept changing and so did my ambitions. When I used to see my teacher teaching in the class, I wanted to become a teacher. When I was in my teens and went to beauty parlour, I wanted to become a beautician. Once I started learning dance, and inspired by my dance teacher, I wanted to become a classical dance teacher. When I saw the newsreader on different channels, I wanted to become a newsreader. There were instances when I used to read out the newspaper to myself to just check my pronunciation and fluency in whatever I was reading. When I used to see the airhostesses in the flight, I would dream of being one myself. Well, there are no limits for our dreams, right? So nothing wrong in that. And of course, like every adolescent girl thinks of, I wanted to become an actress too, when I saw those stars dancing and acting. When I started reading CSR (Competition Success Review), I waned to become an IAS officer. And the final one - when I read Nancy Drew and used to see one of the famous series during those days - CID, I wanted to become a detective.
Well, all my dreams since my childhood till I got into my college just remained as dreams. The reality was that I eventually wanted to become a software engineer which I had never dreamt of. Not even once!!! When I was in my third year of college, I thought that whatever I have dreamt would just remain as a dream. The only one that was tad bit close to turn into reality was the software professional dream. Well, as every engineering student has this tradition of undergoing the placement process, so was my case. The first company that visited our college was Patni Computer Systems. This company visited our college exactly after 3 days of college reopening during the third year. Getting placed was kind of mandatory for everyone as otherwise it would be quite difficult to get placed outside the college. Fortunately or unfortunately, I got placed in that company. Fortunately because, then I did not have to worry about placements and could sit tension-free for the next 2 yrs. It was unfortunate because of two reasons. One was that I would have to join in Mumbai, very much far from my hometown, Palakkad, Kerala. And the other one, since the company had many Japanese projects coming in, all employees had to learn Japanese. But then, once my college got over, I somehow got placed in Aditi Technologies as a fresher through a consultancy and I felt that I have taken a wise decision. Yes, it is the right decision because I would not have got to learn so much and wouldn’t have got so much exposure if I was in a big company like Patni.
All freshers placed at Patni had to undergo the Japanese training and clear 2 levels. De facto, rigorous Japanese training. We had a tough time as it was conducted during the weekends and we were the only souls in the entire college attending classes. Initially, I had an aversion towards the language. But later, as time passed by I started developing a penchant towards it. Japanese is said to be one of the toughest languages in the world. It is one of the most interesting languages too. Now, please don't keep wondering why I am talking so much about Japanese, when I was supposed to tell about my ideal job. Well, it is all related to Japanese!!! Coming back to the language, this language's Grammar is not like English Grammar but somewhat similar to our traditional languages. There are three types of scripts in Japanese language – Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Hiragana is the one normally used whereas Katakana is used for writing foreign names (of people, companies, countries, etc.) in Japanese. Japanese can be written in English too and when it is done so, it is called Romaji.
For eg:- O namaye wah, is Romaji. It means exactly what you may have thought. It is 'What is your name?'
Kanji (It is pronounced as Kaanji) is a script that is with Hiragana and used. Japanese can be written exclusively using Hiragana or using both Hiragana and Kanjis. The latter one is used mostly. Kanjis are symbols which are like pictures that everyone would have seen. These Kanjis are derived from Chinese. There are about 2000 Kanjis in this language. These Kanjis represent a thing, a word or a part of a word. There are individual Kanjis for sun, moon, mountains, etc. But river is represented by two Kanjis. Moreover these Kanjis take up different pronunciation and also different meaning when it is used with other Kanjis. And that is exactly why foreigners find it difficult while learning these Kanjis. It is almost impossible to learn all the 2000 Kanjis but on an average, a Japanese person knows almost 75% of them.
The Japanese exam is conducted on the 2nd Sunday of December. I took up the first level in December 2005. I had around 2-3 weeks to prepare after my semester exams. Believe me; I had spent more hours of study than I had spent for my Semester exams. That’s simply because, it was a question of my career. The pass percentage was 60. i.e. 240/400. I feared a lot. I cleared with 75%. Thank God!!! The next one came in 2006. This time I had exactly 15 days. I had covered up almost 60% during college but these 15 days were really crucial. And those days I used to shut myself in the room and came out only for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even my parents were surprised and thought that I was moving away from them. There was a section on listening and that was the most difficult one. The Japanese accent was very difficult to understand. In class, the teacher played different tapes and made us listen. We even watched a few Japanese movies starting with 'The Last Samurai'. Remember the Japanese dialogues in that? The number of Kanjis that we had to learn this time was around 250 whereas the first level had just 80. In my whole life, I have never worked as hard as I had done for my Japanese exams. Fortunately I passed this one with a 71%. This time I topped my college. By this time, I just almost fell in love with the language. Immediately after college, I got placed in Aditi Technologies and hence, I never got an opportunity to use that language.
I feel wise enough, as of 9:47 am, 20th of June, to have realized that ideal job isn’t just a position that one holds. A job title isn’t held by an individual for long. There is always the longing for the next level, whatever it may be. An ideal job is a JOURNEY. A job is that is quite ideal, shouldn’t have much to do with the short term gains. A long term approach in planning and implementing ones’ ideas can turn mere satisfactions to euphoria.
So, here starts my Ideal Job. I am not sure whether I will be able to achieve this new dream of mine of starting Japanese institutes all over India but I would surely like to. If I should make it happen, then how should I groom myself? How should I fine tune myself? I would like to work at Aditi for a few more years. And if I get the right opportunity at the right time, I would like to pursue an MBA. So why should I do an MBA? Is it related to my ideal job in any way? What specialization should I choose? Should I immediately start the institute after my MBA? There are so many questions. I believe that I have to do an MBA because ultimately, it is all about 'MANAGING'.
I believe that an MBA helps you in learning case studies of different businesses and their successes and failures. This would give me an idea how should I start and proceed efficiently with respect to my job. Moreover, it would also give me an idea of the risks that I might have to take and also the fact that success doesn't come immediately. MBA helps in developing the leadership qualities and improving the communication skills too. Leadership qualities are obviously required as I would be having people working under me. And communication skills are important too, as I would not only like to start an institute but also be a faculty there. And I believe that I can be a good one, provided my communication skills are really excellent. There are good institutes which offer double specializations. I would like to specialize on Marketing and Finance. This is because I should be able to bring about an impression that this particular institute is the best in the country. It would be named, or should I say branded- Nihongo No Kenshusei-‘Japanese Possession Institute.’
So why would I go about starting a Japanese institute? And is my Ideal Job worth struggling? Is it worth investing so much (for my studies and later for initial investment)? Well, why not? It is obviously worth investing. One thing is that I would be doing what I want to and since I have got a liking towards the language. Secondly, as everyone knows, Japanese people are really technologically much more advanced than we Indians. Bringing this technology from Japan to India would be very much profitable. Mostly software companies in India have their clients in US. If we have equal number of clients in Japan too, it would be really advantageous in a way to learn their technology. Since they are technically advanced, pursuing an education there would also be a wonderful opportunity and expose the students to their new technologies. Right now, the different technological companies, be it software or electronics, are getting more and more Japanese clients. So, to get more Japanese clients or to pursue an education there, it is very important that foreigners have to learn Japanese. This is simply because the Japanese people don't know English!!! And they don't want to know. There are instances where if u works for Japanese clients, your OS would also be in Japanese. Yup. The whole Windows OS would be in Japanese!!! And you might have to chat with them online in Japanese. This would actually please them. So to gain something, you will have to take some pains.
The second thing is that this institute has to be targeted for a particular group of people. It is definitely not for the school or college going students unless and until their academics demands it. It would be for software and electronics professionals and also for those who have Japanese clients. For this, the task is to identify those companies who have Japanese clients. Now, this is a tough job and I have no idea how to go about it. But that's where, I believe that an MBA would help me. Once these companies are identified, we will have to go about campaigning to the companies to send their professionals to our institute for learning. The institute should also be flexible enough to send the faculty to the respective institutes and teach them.
Thirdly, once the institute performs well initially, it can to be opened at other places. For this again the same procedure has to be followed, but apart from that there might be some risks and equal competition if already there are some Japanese institutes. In this case, the institute has to deliver the best to the companies and should do exceedingly well. Students will be requested to review the teaching process. If, in case, there are any companies or even colleges, for that matter, at other places where the institute has not established its centre, then the institute should be flexible enough to send their faculty to that particular place provided there are enough number of candidates. This would be really helpful for the companies and colleges as well. Moreover if there are any other requirements, they would definitely look back to our institute in future. I got this idea because our Japanese faculties used to come from Mumbai to Coimbatore to teach us.
Fourthly, it would be good enough if some Japanese workshops are implemented once in 6 months or so. This can be open to all where in some tricks for learning the Kanjis and certain shortcuts for a few grammar patterns, etc. can be taught. A pamphlet can also be given with a few test papers and different Grammar patterns summarized. Apart from that a few tests can also be conducted state-wise or country-wise for continuous improvement of the students. It is not enough if the candidate learns the language once. This is because the candidate would soon forget if he learns just once. Hence, continuous revision is required. For instance, one easy way to learn the Kanjis would be to use flashcards.
Finally, motivation plays a very important factor to keep the candidates learning. Once the software employees undertake ‘On the Job Training’, it would be difficult for them to learn. This is because Japanese is not only about understanding but also putting in a lot of hard-work. Hence, some assignments have to be given in such a way that they apply what they have learnt. And they should be motivated to do so. This is the job of the faculty to keep them motivated. How to motivate them? This can be done by telling them how to learn in an interesting away For e.g. Use of flash cards for Kanjis. How much to learn in a day or a week? How much time they should allot in a day? And if they are working the whole day, it would be better if they study during the early morning.
Everything is done to attain a brand value for the institute and to make the Nihongo No Kenshusei institute the No. 1 in the country. If in case there is any demand for Japanese faculties, the companies should think of this institute in the first place and its flexibility in order to fulfill their demands. I’d also improve my own skills by finishing the further two levels of Japanese. Furthermore, I’d also like to bring in my life partner into this enterprise after marriage and work as a champion tag team both in the household and in the corporate world.
Work life balance is an issue which has been hitting the headlines more often now than before. I strongly advocate ‘work-life balance.’ But not in it’s orthodox and conventional sense. I wouldn’t like to leave the organization at 6pm because the previous generation used to do so in government jobs. But, on the contrary, I’d like to advocate ownership. There is an old saying which I recently heard in a farm a few days ago and I shall paraphrase it. Work life balance can be best explained by using an analogy of mother-child or farmer-rain. A mother has to care for the child if it cries be it the middle of the day or be it the middle of the night. She is never off-duty but she is on-love. A farmer can’t plant or harvest at his whim. The rains have to deal its cards and the farmer just gets to play a hand. Nature can play spoil sport, and often, it does. He can never be off-duty, but can be on-hope. This is exactly the same I’d expect in my ideal job or the ideal jobs that I create. One’s got to do what one best can. It’s one’s own enterprise whether it be a janitor or the chairman. After all, if one never feels ownership towards an organization, how can one hope to ‘mother’ it? I’m sure we’ll all be in consensus when I say that this is one quality that all leaders of organizations possess. This sure will make work feel like privilege and not a chore. Perfect work life balance-unorthodox ishtyle!
Intramural sports leagues during the weekends, walking and running groups, classical music and dance classes for the children of employees, Wednesday-outdoor movie night, gold outings, fund raisers for charities etc. should be arranged for by my organization’s internal activities committee members which should be a voluntary position. All these will keep the spirits of the employees at its best. This should also be a great social and networking opportunity for the members. This is how one can balance work and life without having to cut time off of either.
Ideal job is not a title, it is a journey. And I’d be the pilot-the one to steer the organization to greater heights. At the end of the day, my dream would be quite a fulfilling experience for me and hopefully, its faculty and clients as well. If I could spend about 10 hours shaping my business plan today, and that too being totally glued to my screen, I sure well can go ahead with the enterprise slowly churning the plan into reality. Again, my ‘ideal job’ may turn out to be completely different in a year, but I’ll keep my promise of being challenged, and having a fulfilling yet hectic lifestyle, no just for me but my family, my faculty, and my clients.
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