Archive for the ‘Well, Duh!’ Category

I was surfing around the net and found out a great blog post by Steve Pavlina. Now he’s discussing 10 Reasons why you should never get a job. I wholeheartedly agree with him. I can relate to him and his experience.

Its kind of funny when I was trying to build my business, I had lots of people (i.e. relatives, friends, parents) who told me to get a “Real Job”. I always wondered what do they mean by Real Job?

Are all those businessmen are not doing “Real Job” in their business? If they are not then you’d be not wearing than fancy shirt/trousers or whatever right now.. If they are not then you’dn’t be taking out your date on that nice fancy cozy little restaurant with the corner table right now…

Heck I think Entrepreneurs are the only People who are doing “THE REAL JOB”. Rest of the world is sleep walking or playing “house” like little girls.

From my point of view, the Real Job factors comes when we are insecure and want to ensure our future (By getting a job? it makes no sense, you can get downsized, fired or what not) . When Companies in US started downsizing and started moving their operations in India and China. There were lots of people who are left shocked, disgruntled.

They were blaming companies for being penny pincher, cheap, and countries Like India or china for taking over their jobs. I could feel the animosity in the people at that time. Now if you take all of this from a company point of view, all they want is better profit and better margin. No wonder they outsourced.

Now In this article I don’t want to dishearten you by reminding you of all those bad things… but I want you to gain more understanding of yourself as a whole.

Now, if you love your job and your boss, then you don’t necessarily have to leave your job. What I want you to remember is that “Become a foundation” in your company. If your job (experience) is something that can’t be replaced, then not only you can survive these kinds of lay offs but also flourish from them.

I rememeber, Back in 2000 when I was a programmer. In those days, Dot com bubble burst opened. The result, thousands of Indians living in US, Europe were fired from their jobs and they all were coming back to India. At that time, I personally knew 3 Top programmers who were hired by US companies and left India to pursue their jobs.

The difference? Mediocrity can be replaced anything, but excellence cannot. These guys were Top Notch. They were being paid top dollar even then.

Anyways, There’s something more important which I wanted to discuss. If you read Steve Pavlina blog post. I highly recommend His 10th point.

Taken from Steve Pavlina’s Blog : Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault.

It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. Read Rest of The Blog post.

He makes such an excellent point. I suggest you to go read this blog post right now. I can comment on it, but I’d rather not on such a masterpiece.

Varun Pratap

When I was thinking about this blog, this was the first thing that came to me.

You see, people in tend to think “outside the box”, they forget what was inside it. Its about the obviousness of something. People are so much stressed out that they can’t see the obvious. I’ll share some of my “Well Duh!” moments and talk about the obviousness of things.

Till then

Varun Pratap