Last few years had been ridden with confusion. I remember myself trying to make sense of life, goals and ambitions on the one hand, and ethics, integrity and morality on the other. While the confusion still persists, I believe rather I hope that I have attained some amount of clarity. An influential force behind this transition were few of the lectures taken by Prof. Srinath during the course, Qualitative Research Methods. The name of the course might sound boring to few but believe me – on average one goosebump per lecture was a guarantee.
I’m going to talk about one of those lectures which impacted me the most: One of the celebrated professors in Indore talked about one of his experience in the previous institute in which he used to work. He provided a detailed flashback of how he helped an intern to get her promised perks when the concerned department was unwilling to provide any compensation, even when he had to stand against the senior authority. He elaborated upon how he stayed earnest to his position of responsibility without caring much for anything else. In the end, he had to lose his job but he was able to get justice for that intern.
But the question stood – was it worth it?
According to him, that was the only way to go about it. Having no integrity and living in perpetual fear is a very muddled approach towards life. A person of integrity is always sorted when it comes to taking perplexing decisions. There is no dearth of opportunities for such people (as he came to our institute afterwards which is arguably better than his last one). The degraded institutions which try to suppress persons who put the holistic ideology of their life before everything else are bound to perish. But such persons are always going to thrive with content as they have clarity about their purpose in life wherever they wander.
Thus I learned that clarity within leads to clarity outside. More the people are true to themselves, more it leads to clarity in approach towards life.
Which ABG company would you want to work for and why?
– I would love to work in Aditya Birla Retail limited in sales management department. I have a penchant to work in retail sales management segment. In retail, I would get the peak challenges available to any manager in sales area as I would have to deal with a huge number of people. It would be a perfect platform for me to channel my youthful energy. I’m sure that in this field I would be able to dissolve myself in work. Further, I believe the challenges in this field would teach me useful lessons which would stay with me throughout my career.
Vaibhav Singh.