Merging Possibilities With ABG - Anish Agarwal, SIBM Pune

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 1^st 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.