Confessions of a Tall Indian Woman

Follow your dreams. Channel your passion. Wake up and smell the coffee...  Words you hear often and with most Bollywood movies endorsing the mantra " You live only once. Follow your passion". Of course with a fancy BGM and even fancier locations, this seems close to reality and worth pursuing. Nothing wrong in this assumption but when you look at the larger 9-5 going regular office going people it's almost like you have assumed they are unhappy. The focus on alternative career paths is just such a eye opener and am glad that things are moving in the right direction. But what I am wary about is the exaggerated sense of finding your passion that doing a regular mundane job is dismissed without any credit. Working in a regular corporate set up for close to 15 years I can safely say the following just based on my experiences and people I have interacted. Of course there are exceptions. Here are a 10 reasons why 9 to 5 isn't passe and it can be interesting for a m...

The title is quite self explanatory.Tamil movies have a conscious bias in the way they portray large corporate organizations and the employer/employee relations. There is black and white and typically if you see its always one point of view. The employer or the boss is irrational, stubborn, and just wants to make money. Profits anyone? You will always have a secretary or executive assistant and based on the budgets this will either be the heroine ( in older movies) to a "sexy siren" or bimbo in later ones. The only role of this person is to either fudge/steal data or help the hero break in to the CEO office. Anywhere close to reality, frankly this is such a difficult job to do and you need to be really organized to actually run a CEO's calendar. To an extent that graduates aspire for this job to jump start their career. The CEO is of two versions. The pro-employee version (far and few) just fights for the underdog (mostly the hero) and is just blinded to anything th...

Imagine this. Or maybe just read on. At work you are in a day long “strategy” workshop. This means you get more breaks than you deserve to clear your head . Breaks also mean ample supply of tea, coffee, snacks, lunch then repeat in the same order till dinner.   The most latest observation of mine include at least 50% in this group who are in some new fitness routine or diet. While I am a huge advocate for both and quite private when it comes to what I train and eat, its highly amusing at a large well educated group the lengths people will go to brag. Why I say brag is because it’s not just sticking to their plan , but digressing to a lengthy rigmarole of why a particular diet is the best thing on earth or spin cycling is the new cool thing. While it’s heartening to note the healthier way of living and its of course awesome to share information and discuss, there is a thin line that separates this from bragging. Even bragging I can tolerate till you just peel the layers and get...