Job aspirations

The profiles in many of my friends' and their friends' blogs state this.

kindergarten, city >> school, city >> high school, city >> higher secondary, city >> college, city/village/out of civilization >> company I worked for, city >> CAT >> CAT >> new company I work for, city >> CAT >> CAT...

CAT is what is common in all these profiles. There is also another set of friends and classmates I know - people who prepare for IAS. I am not sure if they maintain blogs like many of the MBA aspirants. But I am sure that they also prepare for higher education. I also know that they are all awfully short of preparation time. Managing work, play, tv, dinners (the ones with girlfriends), drinking parties (those without girlfriends) along with preparing for tests is a very very difficult thing to do. My sympathies and good luck wishes to all of us.

It was on one such difficult to manage Monday mornings that I noticed the security guard at our office solving problems at his desk. He continued to work out as I left for home that day. On close observation for some more days I noticed that the security guard had nothing more to do during work than enter names, in and out timings of visitors. And visitors were few.

It was only then I realised that a security guard job could be the job to be to many of the MBA and IAS aspirants who are desperate for time. More so for the IAS aspirants who quit their jobs for a year or two to devote all their time to prepare for the entrance examinations. The money is less, but is better than not earning anything at all.

So the next time you are in serious thought of quitting your job to prepare for higher education, think about this. Instead of quitting, you might as well ask for a inter-department transfer...