A few months after I joined Idea Project, Idea confirmed its merger with Vodafone India and started work related to that. Finally, the date of merger was fixed at 1st September, 2018. We were all anxious about the change, as change is never easy. I, especially was worried because, I was preparing for B-School entrance exams and I didn’t want to hamper my preparation because of high working hours because of the merger related activities. Also, that was just a few months before the entrance exams, which is supposed to be the peak time for preparation. It became really difficult to juggle both work and studies and I had to find a way to balance both.
The first week, I struggled to cope with my studies and I knew I couldn’t continue like this. To come out of this sticky situation, I created a “not to-do list”- a list of things where I wouldnt spend my time anymore.
My parents lived 4 hours away and I used to visit them over the weekends. I stopped visiting them during those crucial few months. This made me save around 8 hours a week which I would have otherwise spent travelling. The next remedy was to take shorter breaks at work so that I could complete more work. I stopped going for tennis sessions in the evenings, which again resulted in saving close to 4 hours a week. After going through a rigorous 3 month period, the D-day finally came and I performed well too. When the results came out, I was over the moon when I learned that I had scored 99.83%ile in the SNAP examination. I was glad that those 3 months of hardship paid off. Another important learning from those 3 months were that 24 hours is a lot of time and one can easily all the things he wants to do , but only if its managed properly.
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Ashim Kumar Manna
A Sr. Lecturer in ECE of Birla Inst. Technology and presently working as Offr. On Spl. Duty of DTE&T Kolkata
Well represented your thoughts which depicts the characters with full emotion and sociable. It also reflects how energy can be well maneauvered into action for transforming dreams into reality.
19 Jul 2019, 09.00 PM