Ritendra's Blog

Most of us start believing that the position on our business card is our identity. We often feel proud to tell old friends and new acquaintances that we are this manager and that executive. The pretence identity affects you internally and you identify with your work role. All this goes very well until you leave your present job. Then suddenly you find that you are no longer such n such and you feel like a nobody. But suppose you do an activity like gardening and identify yourself as a gardener then no matter if one day you are the Managing Director or a peon, you will feel no different. In an interview the award winning novelist Amitav Ghosh, told the interviewer that he grows chillies in his Goa farm and thinks of himself as a farmer. It is always a good idea to keep yourself in a zone where nothing can touch your sanity. If you build an identity that is different from the work you do to earn a living, then you still be that identity once you leave work. Sometimes you can keep your ...

If your nature is to searches for that tiny and hidden bit of goodness in even the most horrible boss or co-worker than you must not be working in the Indian corporate sector. Sooner or later all the process of subversion that our Indian genes have in abundance, surface, rendering the difference between the lala company and the Global giants superficial. Now if you are wise and sensible you would know within the first few months of joining an organisation that you have made the wrong or right move. Two-thirds of new employees know that they have made the wrong move. But it is not advisable to resign within the first year. So here comes the question how will you survive the days? And how long should you stay? The very first thing that you should do after you have made up your mind that the role or the organisation does not suit you, is to look for a new job. But in most cases, the stress and work pressure take such a huge toll that it often becomes impossible to even search for a job ...