Since I graduated in 2008, I have been through number of jobs - Transcriber, Annotator, Production Assistant, Actor, Trainee AD, Assistant Director, Short- film-maker, Call Centre Executive, Copy Writer, Content Writer, Social Media Executive, Client Servicing Executive and Digital-Social Media Strategist.
For me the most dreaded part during job interviews is when I have to explain the HR executive or Department Head as to why I have been through so many jobs. For your information, people like me are labelled as compulsive job hoppers and are looked down upon by many organisations. I beg to differ. I am not the guy who jumps from one job to another looking for a raise in salary. It is just that I believe life is too long to do just one job. Life is also too short, so why waste time doing just one thing. I want to do everything. I want to be the jack of all. Life is all about experiences. With every new job profile, comes a new challenge. What I do, is take up the challenge, finish the task and move on.
But such a "lifestyle" comes at the cost of financial stability. Companies do not count your previous experiences as you shift from one job profile to other. They do not look at how much you have achieved in the limited period of time. No matter how much of the new age philosophies an organisation preaches, it will tread the same traditional path.
In these times of social media, one often comes across inspirational and motivational anecdotes that talk of personalities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etcetera, who had dropped out of colleges and did not take the by the well-trodden path. But tell me, how many of these multi-million dollar companies hire dropouts and let them prove their potential? Zilch!
In the past 5+ years, I've got more knowledge than our 10+2+3 year education system was ever able to give me. And believe me that did not caome from sitting in one cubicle or desk, doing the same thing over and over again. It came because of the new challenges that each job profile brought along with it.
As I write this post, I am now looking for a new job. But not in the same field as before. I want to try my hand at coding, application development. For that I am researching and learning new things every day, thanks to abundant resources available online. I am also considering pursuing journalism or photography. May be next year, around this time, I will write another post talking about a new job at hand. Call me crazy if you want. But that's what I am. I just want to try my hand at everything. I want to do everything.
For the lack of a better ending, I leave you with the wise words of Steve Jobs -- “Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
For me the most dreaded part during job interviews is when I have to explain the HR executive or Department Head as to why I have been through so many jobs. For your information, people like me are labelled as compulsive job hoppers and are looked down upon by many organisations. I beg to differ. I am not the guy who jumps from one job to another looking for a raise in salary. It is just that I believe life is too long to do just one job. Life is also too short, so why waste time doing just one thing. I want to do everything. I want to be the jack of all. Life is all about experiences. With every new job profile, comes a new challenge. What I do, is take up the challenge, finish the task and move on.
But such a "lifestyle" comes at the cost of financial stability. Companies do not count your previous experiences as you shift from one job profile to other. They do not look at how much you have achieved in the limited period of time. No matter how much of the new age philosophies an organisation preaches, it will tread the same traditional path.
In these times of social media, one often comes across inspirational and motivational anecdotes that talk of personalities like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etcetera, who had dropped out of colleges and did not take the by the well-trodden path. But tell me, how many of these multi-million dollar companies hire dropouts and let them prove their potential? Zilch!
In the past 5+ years, I've got more knowledge than our 10+2+3 year education system was ever able to give me. And believe me that did not caome from sitting in one cubicle or desk, doing the same thing over and over again. It came because of the new challenges that each job profile brought along with it.
As I write this post, I am now looking for a new job. But not in the same field as before. I want to try my hand at coding, application development. For that I am researching and learning new things every day, thanks to abundant resources available online. I am also considering pursuing journalism or photography. May be next year, around this time, I will write another post talking about a new job at hand. Call me crazy if you want. But that's what I am. I just want to try my hand at everything. I want to do everything.
