05 May, 2006

Why I don’t particularly enjoy being a software professional

- U need to sit on the damm chair from morning to evening (to night), constantly worrying about how well rounded some parts of your body might become.

- You just can’t take a leave if ur feeling lazy to get up one day or if there’s an interesting cricket match happening that day. Everyone has a boss, who’ll probably be pissed off that he’s not able to watch the match thanks to his boss, and this just goes on. .

- Come March, and you suddenly need to come face to face with a lot of terms like GRPALL, PF, etc, which finally you have no idea of and realize there’s no point even trying and that its best to give ur alary to the govt for that month.

- Every once in a while you wonder about how less you get paid for working(read emailing and being on messenger and looking at your code at times) for hours beyond the mandatory 9.5 hrs.

- You begin to feel like some kind of a dustbin, when all kinds of irrelevant mail(from Group announcements to Online dating services) lands up in ur inbox, and u need to Sht+Del every once in a while.

- When every once in a while you get stuck trying to debug your code for hours together, only to find that you typed ‘forr’ instead of ‘for’.

To follow: "Why I love being a softare profeswsional"

6 comments:

Badri said...

This was very apt da machan....u said it...

Look forward to reading your next post on why u like it

~ Deeps ~ said...

gud one.....dude....u not gonna get any babes out there in cdc2 ....worst crowd of all the offices.... learn to live with it

Prash said...

Super da...Damn true. Me too feeling the same way as you are!1!

Nikhil said...

@ Badri: I wonder if I'll have enough points here.

@Prash: Thanks. Is this Prakash from ED?

@Deepak: I have a feeling times are going to change with this batch of new joinees. I have a feeling all the Delhi crowd is going to migrate to CDC 2. ;-)

Rohan said...

Nikhil, come to Mumbai, you'll see the same thing. Its not about Delhi, Mumbai, B'lore, Chennai, but its just all about the domain of IT.

Agree with you on most counts, but I think you need to also list a few flip sides of the story as well. 'Coz then it would not be complete. :-)

Just a suggestion!

Nikhil said...

I thought all these were flip sides of the story!!