mediocrity

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity thrust upon them

 

To start with, I always believed that great things will happen if you are hard working and give your best  .Slowly I have realized that with all the hours that I have , even if I put up my best fight I am not able to make time for more . And this is the gap that is causing me to slow down in life

 

yes I am better off than many others , but there are times where I feel that I am inadequate, I have no control over the fact that my brain has limitations and that is where all the pain triggers, The fact that I am mediocre, the very fact that there are limits to my ways of thinking and somehow I am at that verge where I know that right beside there lies the key to so many problems in life somehow I find a small block.

 

I find it choking at times and feel that even after reading so many agony aunties write about bringing the best out of you , the best in you in times of depressions, I have this problem of visibility and knowledge of seeing some of the best take the cake in my mode of life.

Somehow there is something missing and they are the grey matter that makes me different from another person.

 

I move in a circle that is doing great in life , even I am not a non entity here but there is a need to do more and that is not happening amidst all the ruckus , noise and pain .

 

 

The great recession is here .

Well, there are ups and downs in everyones lives,  as the saying goes, you are better prepared for tough times if you have seen some tough days in your past too.

This time around the problem is that we are seeing it collectively as the bad times are here. Managers fear no more that he might lose a potential good employee, there are millions waiting outside to beat you at your best skills .

IT is one field where the employees are scared to their pants as they know that they have become too complacent and don’t have any real world skills anymore,

They cannot even merely think about running a pan ki dukan if asked for. May be they will but all are in a state of dilemma.

 

Today I asked a friend ,whether he was willing to get into studies now after 4 years of hard work. Most feel that this is a glass ceiling here and we are not able to make any movement here or there. Most the startup modes where companies had a good vertical ladder and people could make moves up the ladder with their talents are soon starting to resemble any government office where you don’t know when your promotion is in the line. Whether there is a lot of apple polishing going on or whether the ability to stand on your own with sheer merit still stands as strong as it used to be.

 

I have heard complaints for many of my friends about many service sector companies in India like TCS and Infosys where the structures are so solidly defined that many of their employees especially the senior ones are now stuck invariably to their one position that they hold. And they are in no position to make any horizontal move or to leave their comfort.

 

This unchartered Indian middle class that thinks that it should and must enjoy the privileges that the middle class in US enjoys  or atlest their counterparts ( especially the Indians in US ) enjoys. Slowly the concept of making it to some prestigious club, having a 3 balcony flat , at costs beyond 50 lakhs, having 7 figure cars to talk of is something that is becoming the Indian dream of any Indian IT engineer.

IT believe that the goals are a bit unrealistic and are not to be achieved in this country  .

There are a lot of basic and fundamental changes that needs  to be done before we can demand such a lifestyle from our own country

 

 

One whole day of sleeping

 Blogging after a long time. Last year I was blogging almost 50 blogs a months. Now that it is one of those times of the century which people will remember as the great depression of the 21^st century , we are getting down to hard work and no blogging,  as if it was a  better situation earlier,

 

A recent email chain proclaimed that in a recent matrimonial a Malyali girl asked specifically that she did not want to marry a man from the IT industry,

Yup this industry has sucked in more useless Indians than before. Moreover, Indians with no access to private life and no will either have already eaten their ways into the American corporate ladder and the situation is getting worse with each passing day.

The Indian management considers it pretty normal to ask its employees work on weekends, holidays,  and no private life at all.This is the beginning of those days, when people coming to the IT industry will not know how much is enough. I have seen the best of the minds in the country suffering traumatic time in the industry. It is high time for people in this industry to make moves to other sectors. In the past I have written about the futility if the IT industry unless the main pillars of the economy like automobiles, agriculture , aviation, commerce they work.

So with no skill set other than to sit in your cubicle and produce some code, the industry is flooded with fresh blood every year,

In the past in the years 2004-2005 when the IT boom had returned, it was getting increasingly unclear as to what the future of other jobs were but IT looked like a solid place to stay and most of the engineering colleges in south had the IT and CSE dept full till their brinks.

 

The result is the increasing number of unemployed and people ready to work for peanuts in this country. All employees in and around the industry know that the skill set he may be irreplaceable but there their hundreds waiting outside to enter this industry in hopes that they will be able to meet their goals of foreign travel, better life and match a lifestyle of that of their seniors who entered the industry in way back 1995 – 1998. They were the ones who really reaped the benefits of the industry. People who had a salary of  50K in the year 2000- 2002 had a great time with prices of flats within reasonable prices like  600 -900 rs per sq feet even in reachable places in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Today the scene is so bad that people within the industry are completely confused whether they are in the right track or not. With job losses and fear among the employees making everyday life difficult the situation is very uncomfortable.

 

This year 2009, june we will have millions of those students who joined the 2005 Engineering classes will be coming out asking for a job. Some will get jobs, some will step in to MBA as if two more years of shed.  And the rest will decide to go back to their shanty towns and get their dads business going as normal