It all started with one decision I had to make while still a student :(. The choice I had was, should I study further and continue enjoying the student's life, or should I take up a job (which, going by the only job I had on hand meant I would have to stay at home) and forego all my freedoms - everything from staying up late nights to getting drunk and watching movies. Honestly, it wasn't a difficult decision to make and as they say, rest is history.
But that's where the problem starts - My history isn't being written the way I would have loved it to be. Infact, it's not even being written in the way that would let me proudly hold my head high up in the air while telling my friends, "I'm working." Because I don't even come half as close to that. :(
Granted, my salary is credited to my account every month and so, theoretically, I'm an employee and working. But what work am I doing? Nothing, if you don't count going to and coming back from office as "work" (which infact is what I'm beginning to feel these days.) Apart from this very important "work", I also sometimes get to run errands (quite literally) for my colleagues. The errands can vary from anything between copy-pasting text into a .ppt file to googling questions for a quiz. Recently, I also completed the very important task of data entrying which, non-technically put, means typing out a sheet of hand-written matter.
I'm not saying I don't like such work. Actually, I will say it. I DON'T LIKE SUCH WORK. But I'm ready to abide by the age-old saying "Everything's part of the life" and continue helping people and not treat it as being demeaning to my dignity. But I would still have loved my life, if only I too had some "real work". Till then, I will continue going to the office, do whatever lowest-level (hierarchially, not meanial) work comes my way and do it so well that I become an integral part of the very activity I was asked help with (- so that anytime in the future, they should come back to me and only me.) But all this while still begging -
Tu hai sab kuch jaanne waala
Main hoon tera maanne waala
Mujhko bhi to staff kara de
Thodi si to staff kara de
Project Utilization dila de
Ek nahin do chaar dila de
Kaise kaison ko diya hai
Aise vaison ko diya hai
Mujhko bhi to staff kara de
Thodi si to staff kara de
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