Professionalism is a strong word with a simple meaning - Keep personal emotions away from decision making.
But can we humans really do that. We being humans use emotions as our drivers to do anything and everything. So from where I see this, a human without emotions can really not be a possibility.
Sitting in a meeting, discussing an issue often results in having loads of opinions flying around in the room. And when someone mixes common sense or a personal touch in an opinion, he’s termed as being not a professional. Isnt that Odd…..I have always wondered.
I totally believe in common sense, coz that’s our gut or more like a guardian angel. If you can’t justify something with common sense, it’s totally useless.
And often Useless people are also termed as not being a true professional.
Until recently I worked in a flat structure, and it was good. Irrespective of your grade/ level you were treated as equals and everybosy grew faster coz there were never too many boundaries you to worry about and big peoples feet you can step on. But the growing aware of professionalism in the outside world triggered the start of the layered model. And now, literally within 6months, my top boss sits 4 levels above me in a proper hierarchy. We are given a set of guidelines of what we need to do before directly talking to the top boss, as he’s now so unapproachable (officially). But me being me still call him up directly. I am flouting the officially defined professional route not because I oppose it, but coz I think it was better earlier. And I am more comfortable doing things that way. That definitely puts me in the not a true professional books.
But I think of myself as a professional simply because –
I work religiously during my work hours with few interruptions in between.
I switch off my personal opinion during office discussions and focus on points put forward on the table
I am true to the work I do, and often voice my opinion against it if I think the end user is not going to benefit from the work I am doing from him, even if it costs my job.
I have a life after work and hate to discuss work during that ‘me’ time. Yet I come to office the next day and carryon with things where I last left them when I left work the day before.
I do take the beating of the client when things go wrong, and pass on the appreciation to my team.
I don’t mingle much with office colleagues at a personal level and I keep my personal & professional life separate
I use social networking sites to connect with friends and family who I cant meet everyday.
I use professional network site to keep my professional network uptodate
What more is required out of a professional? Are professionals not supposed to have a life of their own? Are professionals not supposed to think of their comfort / welfare before doing things?
I have been really lucky to have worked with some fine people who made me a well grounded professional. And I am happy in my comfort zone and look forward to a professional life as an added asset.
I work coz it gives me happiness, makes me feel alive, makes me feel important and lets me contribute my bit of knowledge to this every growing work. At a small level I know I am making a difference.
I am able to see and live the simple meaning of professionalism :o)
Friday, January 27, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Value for Money
‘If its not value for money, its not worth it’…Most of us think that way, isn’t it.
In this materialist world we all assess not just things but people for their worth. Some people are open about this, some are not. But that’s a constant measure we have in our heads to make judgements based on the worth.
Things that are worth the time, the effort, the money are rare and few and when we stumble upon them we are all into it. But we hardly give a second look to things that don’t fall into either one of the category.
As a kid I always wondered why I had to get into a no-win argument with my dad everytime I wanted to buy something. And I struggled to make sense of him putting me through the ruff & tuff time coz I hardly ever won. Though eventually he got me that thing, but I wanted it at my terms, as my specified time. But now I feel that was all a training period, where he was making me reason with him (and with myself) if it was worth my time and/or effort and/or money.
But I didn’t realise this until recently when I started working and became independent with my spending.
The bare truth of life is that things are often over priced. Not just the luxury item, but basic things in life like food and water….not to mention air. Shouldn’t these be our birth right, we need those for survial yet thousands die of hunger, dehydration or suffocation every day.
When will this trade of basic amenities become more humane? When will this life be worth a living for every human whose luck enough to be born?
Let alone the poverty stricken, every human is running in a race, a race to be ahead of the other…a race that ends up with a dead end. They say we don’t take anything along with us when we die. We come into this world empty handed, and go away empty handed. We get an opportunity to explore every aspect of life, be it joyful times sent with near and dear ones or moments filled with disappointments sorrow and pain. To live each and every moment is true meaning of living life to the fullest. We often learn a lot from the hardships we face and create loads of good memories from the happy ones.
Don’t worry be happy……and life will be totally worth it.
Lets make our lives totally Worth living it :o)
In this materialist world we all assess not just things but people for their worth. Some people are open about this, some are not. But that’s a constant measure we have in our heads to make judgements based on the worth.
Things that are worth the time, the effort, the money are rare and few and when we stumble upon them we are all into it. But we hardly give a second look to things that don’t fall into either one of the category.
As a kid I always wondered why I had to get into a no-win argument with my dad everytime I wanted to buy something. And I struggled to make sense of him putting me through the ruff & tuff time coz I hardly ever won. Though eventually he got me that thing, but I wanted it at my terms, as my specified time. But now I feel that was all a training period, where he was making me reason with him (and with myself) if it was worth my time and/or effort and/or money.
But I didn’t realise this until recently when I started working and became independent with my spending.
The bare truth of life is that things are often over priced. Not just the luxury item, but basic things in life like food and water….not to mention air. Shouldn’t these be our birth right, we need those for survial yet thousands die of hunger, dehydration or suffocation every day.
When will this trade of basic amenities become more humane? When will this life be worth a living for every human whose luck enough to be born?
Let alone the poverty stricken, every human is running in a race, a race to be ahead of the other…a race that ends up with a dead end. They say we don’t take anything along with us when we die. We come into this world empty handed, and go away empty handed. We get an opportunity to explore every aspect of life, be it joyful times sent with near and dear ones or moments filled with disappointments sorrow and pain. To live each and every moment is true meaning of living life to the fullest. We often learn a lot from the hardships we face and create loads of good memories from the happy ones.
Don’t worry be happy……and life will be totally worth it.
Lets make our lives totally Worth living it :o)
Friday, January 20, 2012
Life’s beautiful and I am loving it
For ever so long I have been wanting to start getting regular about blogging, but I go through these phases where I blog loads, and then I disappear into work and my mundane life.
So I guess I am back into the blogging phase now.
My job takes me places and gets me to meet loads of new people…I get paid to talk and voice my opinion…a dream job you may think but that comes with the massive burden of taking responsibility for your word. A wrong word at the wrong time has often got me into trouble, but the right word at the right time has worked wonders for me too
That’s life isn’t it? So have a feel good factor that I am living while working, not working for work.
A very dear uncle of mine often said –
There are people who slog their lives working Hard, I work but work smartly and in a way Hardly work …. So never work too Hard, hardly work.
As a kid I never understood the real meaning of this. But today it all makes sense.
Workaholics often become fanatics and eventually loose their mine. But people who define boundaries between work and life, yet try to introduce life in work are more successful.
We have this life to live, and work to fund our living. And, as I see, the main purpose of our being is ‘living a good life’. So I work to fund a good living.
A lot of credit goes to my partner who keeps me well grounded into my territory when I am swaying into the jungle of too much work.
Recently a fiend of mine told me – ‘Negative impression people have about you is you want to play Safe’.
And I thought in my head, and spoke my mind – Who doesn’t ? And that’s not bad, is it.
He was dumbstruck for a second and them fumbled on to give his side of reasoning why that’s not right in our line of work.
Well honestly I don’t care what people think and I do what I think is right and best suited in situations. People look at it playing safe, so be it.
Ahh well, all in all…I live to enjoy, work to enjoy and enjoy to enjoy
Life’s beautiful and I am loving it.
So I guess I am back into the blogging phase now.
My job takes me places and gets me to meet loads of new people…I get paid to talk and voice my opinion…a dream job you may think but that comes with the massive burden of taking responsibility for your word. A wrong word at the wrong time has often got me into trouble, but the right word at the right time has worked wonders for me too
That’s life isn’t it? So have a feel good factor that I am living while working, not working for work.
A very dear uncle of mine often said –
There are people who slog their lives working Hard, I work but work smartly and in a way Hardly work …. So never work too Hard, hardly work.
As a kid I never understood the real meaning of this. But today it all makes sense.
Workaholics often become fanatics and eventually loose their mine. But people who define boundaries between work and life, yet try to introduce life in work are more successful.
We have this life to live, and work to fund our living. And, as I see, the main purpose of our being is ‘living a good life’. So I work to fund a good living.
A lot of credit goes to my partner who keeps me well grounded into my territory when I am swaying into the jungle of too much work.
Recently a fiend of mine told me – ‘Negative impression people have about you is you want to play Safe’.
And I thought in my head, and spoke my mind – Who doesn’t ? And that’s not bad, is it.
He was dumbstruck for a second and them fumbled on to give his side of reasoning why that’s not right in our line of work.
Well honestly I don’t care what people think and I do what I think is right and best suited in situations. People look at it playing safe, so be it.
Ahh well, all in all…I live to enjoy, work to enjoy and enjoy to enjoy
Life’s beautiful and I am loving it.
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