05 May, 2006

Why I love being a software professional

- How many industries give u the luxury of being in the free pool (aka ‘The bench’) every once in a while, so all you need to do is swipe in and swipe out(and if ur smart, sometimes you can do away with that too).

- You can get all the free coffee you want. Ok, so its not all that great, but hey when its free, who cares. In addition, you can get printouts of your favourite novels, get your driving license photocopied, and bring home stationary too.

- With a 100 Mbps internet connection, you don’t need to wait for ages to check out all the latest movies or all those ‘interesting’ forums which would otherwise take a long time with your dial-up connection from home.

- With the kind of attrition rate that our Indian IT companies are having, you can be assured of a lunch/dinner farewell treat at least once a week.

- You get to visit different countries at the client’s expense to develop applications which were never really needed in the first place.

- You don’t need to be in office on time (anyway, you’re going to compensate for it by staying back late into the night). Of course it helps if u live close-by and have a vehicle of you own and have an attractive pillion rider too (now that’s taking ur imagination too far).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow thats cool..wish i was in india with that kinda job....

Rohan said...

Nikhil,

I think you're on bench, going by the rate the blogs are rolling out :-) I think you more or less have consummated the life of a software professional in the Indian IT industry, an industry which stands more for services than for products. I guess you should also add under the pluses, the fact that your Matrimonial market value rises with the mention of a 'software pro'!!

Sharath said...

good to see ur also blogging.. long live free pool!! :P..