Its 10:45 pm and I am still sitting in office. No, I dont have any deadline to meet and I dont have any code delivery planned for the week. I am not slogging and its not a crucial time of my project. My project is not in the red zone. Rather I am just through with one code delivery and have a relatively spaced out schedule.
And No, I don't work for a Call centre :-) and there is no night shift on my schedule. Its a normal day that began when I left home at 8:15 in the morning.
Welcome to the life of an Indian software professional !
Nocturnal, thats one word which describes the professionals in my league.
A world where the day warms up by 7p.m and meetings start at 8 :-) , a world where you check in at home a.k.a boarding/lodging post midnight and check out every morning. Where you know by heart, the last bus and train timings and the cell number that is always prsent in your dialled list is that of your company's bus driver. "Boss, bus rukana, I am coming".
When u get to office early to talk to ur team mates in Tokyo ..and stay back late to catch up on a teleconference wid your client in US. When in the non canteen hours, maggi and a cuppa coffee rulez and the machine tat u use the most besides ur wrkstation is the vending machine.Where work related ailements include bad wrist, ligament pain...thanks to the all day long mousing musings :-)
When you chat more than you talk, when you havent seen ur team mates who are offshore(or onsite), when you return to ur base branch but find all new faces in ur team, when you can only link voices with names but no faces, when you identify the font style of a persons mail but not his/her handwriting, when you review documents and give comments to convert a statement to active(or passive) voice....
If u've been relating to the symptoms above....u r a true s/w professional ...way to go !!!
err or to say time to take a break!
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Professional Musings
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sounds like u are in a rut of sorts... and thats a bad place to be in.. get out while u can...... :-)
Oh no its not a bad place .....these were the s/w symptoms collected over a very large sample space shud I say ;-)
hmm.. the way u wrote abt it.. seemed like it was all urs...
for once i am happy that i am not a s/w professional...
i liked the part abt recognizing a person by the font they use :)
hey...cool piece! I share my favorites with Nish the Ant here...'recognizing by font!'
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