Missing home

One more March 31st crosses over. This one was a long one. The US recession has really started eating up in the minds of the IT folks world over. Hopefully the beginning of the new fiscal year will bring with it a better luck for the Economy.



Its not at all easy to keep pushing yourself against the tide. In my personal life I am have been doing just for more than three months now. Working in Kyocera is not helping matters. This organisation is probably one of the least organized in the world. A lot of stuffs are painfully too ad hoc. People plan the deliverables by taking into account 10-12 hours of work even during the weekends. After about three years of work in the Industry, I have come to know one simple truth, if you BELIEVE you can do a job in 10 days, ask for 15. Here, if they believe they can do a job in 10 days, they will convince themselves that they can work for 2 hours more everyday and finish the job in 7 days. On top of that, people will decide that they will come and work in weekends as well. So they commit for 5 days to finish the stuff. Absolutely horrendous affair.




There is one perpetual problem with the Indian IT people. Especially managers. Here people dont believe in being a MASTER. They would rather have a bunch of jack-asses, who they will call JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES. If someone is good in doing work A, they will put him into work B and in work C, asking him to excel in that as well. No one understands that it is not like selling Sarees, where if you can sell Benarasi you can sell Mysore Silk as well.


Its okay to work in a over pressurised, over tight, over strained schedule for one month or two months, when the saga becomes longer lasting, things start to get irksome. I myself try to keep up the good spirits and stay as much as possible at home on weekends. Things do not always go that way though. One Sunday I was called to office at 9pm. I had to work all through the night, without an iota of sleep, came out of office only at 10pm on monday night. Sleepless nights are like a routine here. Somehow I have been able to control the damage a lot onto me. But still, the journey has not been very pleasurable.




Dreams come with a lot of costs. Yesterday we achieved 3Mbps on Live Videostreaming using L2 and L3 integrated together. Thats quite an achievement. The cost we have paid is pretty big too.



Right now I stand in a drenched phase of my life. I have learnt a lot in the last 6 months at Kyocera. Most important of all lessons is that I have convinced myself that my capabilities and qualities is in no way inferior to that of folks who are working on Product companies, at least in India. That was a question who answer I HAD to find out. That a main reason for me to leave the comfort zone of Wipro.


But right now I need a little rest. I am desperate of one sabbatical. I am desperate to be amongst the people I love so much. I miss my parents and friends so much now. I wish I could fly like a bird and see them right away..!! I have to wait till the end of this month though.. I miss my home. I miss a little smile in my life.