Mundane Musings

I got this message when I had joined my 1st job......... Rule 1: Be sure you are happy and excited about your job. It is extremely important that you find a job that you feel happy and excited about. This will be the foundation for your job performance, satisfaction, and leadership. If you are doing something that you enjoy, you have a positive effect on those you work with, and the results of your efforts benefit the organization and your career. On the other hand, an unhappy worker tends to produce low-quality results and have a negative impact on the team, with little hope of career advancement. Rule 2: Be a recognized expert in a particular field. Establish yourself as an expert in a field and gain recognition for this expertise. Your reputation will grow, and people will come to you for help. The more people you network with, the more you will share and broaden your knowledge. The core expertise you started with will expand its boundaries into many related areas, and recogniti...

Human behaviour is influenced by our perception of the world and other people and events in it.When we look back on some of the choices we have made,there is always this feeling of what might have been.What if we had gone to a different college. What if we had not taken up that 1st job. About me, I chose(or rather my parents) to study computer science and engineering on the year Y2k.Not that this is a bad choice for many. But it simply was the wrong choice for a person like me.I struggled through this course for 4 years. Programming lab exams were always a nightmare. I had been a pretty good student all throughout school. Now I was "average".Whatever that means. But as luck would have it, I still got through a campus interview and landed my first job as an application developer(read programmer) at a medium-sized company.But here the matter got worse. From being average I went down to below average.....:-( That year I wrote several competitive exams CAT,GRE, SCJP for program...

Recently received the following message as a forward from one of my friends: New Exam pattern in India (Revised): 1. General students - Answer ALL questions. 2. OBC - WRITE ANY one question! 3. SC - ONLY READ questions!!!! 4. ST - THANKS FOR COMING........ AND 5. GUJJARS & JATS - THANKS FOR ALLOWING OTHERS TO ATTEND THE EXAMINATION .. !! CHEERS TO RESERVATION...... Same day came across the below article as well: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Now_IITs_face_shortage_of_students_/articleshow/3319507.cms Its high time the government realise that real talent has got nothing to do with the caste or upbringinf of a person it is something inherent. Not giving an opportunity to real talent to grow will result in a loss to this nation. Wake up atleast now..........

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn "Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week." -Charles Richards "Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."- Alan Lakein "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." -Carl Sandburg "A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin "Make use of time, let not advantage slip" -William Shakespeare "Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness." - Jean De La Bruyere "Once you hav...