How Would That Be..

Movie: Some typical Bollywood style..

Scene: Our hero who until yesterday was a nearly “numb n dumb” guy suddenly transform himself into a uber cool professional (maybe he had a read of “You can WIN” last night J), run into the boss’s cabin and delivers some filmi lines so perfectly. Finally throws his paper on him moves out. Before he even turns around the “devil till yesterday ” boss is almost on his feet and offers him all he wants.

Comes in the demands…. salary raised 4 times, a secretory and “the Corner Cabin”. Done. Deal signed.

Next scene, he is in his cabin, a black textured wooden floored room. The back scores is celebrating his victory. Camera is doing a merry-go-round around him. He pulls up the curtains and the whole of the city trimmed by the endless sea is for his view. On the back wall, the larger than life logo to the company fills up the view. The side wall is covered by the largest TV is have ever seen, flashing Bloomberg with sensex and stocks running in the scrolls. He can see all of his office, including of course, his love interest form the other side. Perfect start to his heroism, I’m impressed.

Rest was waste, but that gave me an idea. How does my office’s “Corner Cabins” looks like?

I couldn't afford to attain any such high (or even low) that I can manage to drop in my CEO’s cabin. All I could manage is to move uphill is to my VP’s Cabin. It was a rather a simple one, a whiteboard on front wall. Interestingly, it a had map of Pune denoting all the major IT companies. It was the best thing I could find for me there. There was a daily diary on the desk and few markers. 

The view out was of a connecting road followed by the garden, impressive all together. It had a calendar hung on the wall with Lord Venketeshwara blessing him 24x7. A hanger too, but seems like never had it’s worth taken for. The backdrop was donned by numerous momentous and  certificate marking his 3^rd and 5^th  years in the company.

Having said that I just wonder how would be my CEO’s room be..

Whenever I have walked around his room, I have seen that red blub ON, declaring “Silence Please. Meeting in Progress”.

Just wonder how would it be, how large it would be. Have you redesigned it by your taste or it’s the same standard as all over. I’m sure it will have a huge TV, but not sure what goes on it, does it also flashes the same Bloomberg. 

I also want to know if it also have the virtual golf turf J. All the Hollywood style movies ,I have seen,  whenever shots a CEO’s room, they almost always have this gadget placed in their rooms. Does it also stations a mini bar and if yes, what all you have for the toast. J

What must be on your book selves(don’t tell me you don’t have that), Martin Luther King, Karl Marx or Corporate Laws or something else. Do he also uses the same desk phone as I or something more fancy (which I doubt) or something more basic. Does a brass made Ghandhiji too finds the place in the cabin. I’m sure you have a closet but just interested to know what all in your wardrobe here. How does that “red signal” goes ON or it is an ever red thing. How is the view out of your cabin and do you too can see your secretory cabin from your desk.

Well the question will only keep on growing. So Mr. CEO, or someone worth capable, in case you come across this, do call me for a visit to cabin. I really want to write a sequence to this with answer to all my questions. And in the meantime my efforts to make it up to your room is going in full swing at my desk.

Meet you soon at your place. J

Why 'm I Here.....

Sometimes some conversations really get on your head, and how so ever may you try to forget them, they keep coming back to you.

I read the ‘Joining The Dots' by Steve Jobs, and since then, I am far more convinced and optimistic that everything happens for a reason,only that you can “connect” it really later in your life.

I remember this small tete-a-tete I once had a friend over coffee, “So what is the purpose of life, an IT job that pays well, a Maruti an year from now, an onsite trip two years hence, a Honda City 10 years from now, and if everything goes well, may be a Hummer, or a Mercedes Benz. “

So while I walk around the magniloquent corridors, a pause to think, what I am heading to, a 10-6 job, that pays well, but intellectually, the learning curve has a slope close to zero, may be I never crossed the threshold in the first place.

As I come back from work everyday, I am left exhausted, with my entire body drained out, till the next morning, as I leave for work, and lock my house. But somehow I have increasingly started to comfort myself, ”ok, not this evening, this one’s going to be the way, I want to mould it, but.. There is only “now”, and the “later”, never speaks for itself ”.So as I procrastinate, evenings after evenings, this dissatisfaction drenches me and I tend to question myself repeatedly, will I be where I want to , the helm of my career, when I grow 50? May be then I will forget what the first monsoon means, the parties on Fridays, may the board rooms will take over the goofy cubicle conversations, but if this be the life I want, and if I want it this bad, there is no way, I will not have it.

Think,Decide,Plan, and its already time to attack !