“All that glitters is not gold” – You must have heard it a million times but you hardly remember it when you need to. Well, this is neither an angst-filled rant nor a failure story. This is about the trade-offs you make in life, sometimes when you’re hardly aware of it.
A day of rigor ends, another starts, where you are to give your cent percent despite not being up to performing even at half steam. Sounds like regular life at a B-School? Yes, quite.
Are you a geeky hero/heroine or a freebie amigo at your B-School? Which category do you belong to?
“Congratulations, You have been selected for the HRM program at XLRI Jamshedpur”....These words echoed through my mind as I stood in front of our giant Learning Center admiring its beauty. Six months in XL had passed yet it seemed like we came here yesterday, how time flew amongst all the submissions and assignments was still a mystery, amongst the hustle of lectures and the constant paucity of time, I stood there wondering, “Do I really belong here?”
Many a time in life we spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to fit in somewhere, we never aimed. I will not lie, but my stagnant career was the unpleasant repercussion of this very fact.
I was a starry-eyed kid when I joined my first job. Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of motivated millennials who were excited to work in their dream company. Setting foot for the first time in a swanky office of an MNC made us jittery. We were all wondering how we will fit in with these professionals!
Who is a manager? What does it mean to be a manager? Is she/he someone who gives a solution to every problem? Is she/he a troubleshooter that saves an organization in a time of crisis? Is she/he a leader that inspires people to follow that path to greatness? Is an MBA just a degree and a road to high paying jobs?
This is the story of a girl who didn’t want what we all are more or less puppets to - being shackled as rats in this corporate world.
“All that glitters is not gold” – You must have heard it a million times but you hardly remember it when you need to. Well, this is neither an angst-filled rant nor a failure story. This is about the trade-offs you make in life, sometimes when you’re hardly aware of it.
A day of rigor ends, another starts, where you are to give your cent percent despite not being up to performing even at half steam. Sounds like regular life at a B-School? Yes, quite.
Are you a geeky hero/heroine or a freebie amigo at your B-School? Which category do you belong to?
“Congratulations, You have been selected for the HRM program at XLRI Jamshedpur”....These words echoed through my mind as I stood in front of our giant Learning Center admiring its beauty. Six months in XL had passed yet it seemed like we came here yesterday, how time flew amongst all the submissions and assignments was still a mystery, amongst the hustle of lectures and the constant paucity of time, I stood there wondering, “Do I really belong here?”
Many a time in life we spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to fit in somewhere, we never aimed. I will not lie, but my stagnant career was the unpleasant repercussion of this very fact.
I was a starry-eyed kid when I joined my first job. Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of motivated millennials who were excited to work in their dream company. Setting foot for the first time in a swanky office of an MNC made us jittery. We were all wondering how we will fit in with these professionals!
Who is a manager? What does it mean to be a manager? Is she/he someone who gives a solution to every problem? Is she/he a troubleshooter that saves an organization in a time of crisis? Is she/he a leader that inspires people to follow that path to greatness? Is an MBA just a degree and a road to high paying jobs?
This is the story of a girl who didn’t want what we all are more or less puppets to - being shackled as rats in this corporate world.
