Waiting for retirement to do what you love to do ?

Recently an ICICI Prudential advertisement on the television caught my eye. The ad showcases RETIREMENT as the WORLD’s BEST JOB. Well, they may be doing the right thing as far as selling their product is concerned, but what caught my eye was not that they made a good ad, instead I was wondering whether we should follow that principle in life ?

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Reasons why I hate my job !

The moment we stop enjoying our jobs or office timings, we start thinking or rather saying, I hate my job or “this profile is not for me”. But did we sit down and think what is making me say that? A person very good in programming is given the similar job to be done over and over again. How long will he enjoy that, but that doesn’t mean that he hates coding. It’s just getting repetitive has made him feel so.

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“Love my Job” Interview : Sidhanta Patnaik

Today, I spoke to Sidhanta Patnaik, who was the man behind all Nike events in India since quite some time apart from a few corporate events. In this interview, Sidhanta gives insights about his job, career, difficulties faced and how he dealt with them in order to do what he loves to do. I fired in 10 straight questions at Sidhanta and here are his answers :

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Why do I hate my job ?

Recently I was a friends’ gathering and was shell shocked to hear what people were talking about. No, they were not talking about recession, they were not about their personal lives either. Yes, they were talking about how UNHAPPY they were at their present jobs. In a group of 7 not even 1 said good [...]

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Dream big, The earth’s the limit : Live your Dreams : Part 3

Dream big. The earth’s the limit! That’s what Mahesh Murthy, CEO Pinstorm has to say. Coincidentally the third person to feature in our series of Live your Dreams is also a person who has never completed formal education. The last two being Sachin Tendulkar, who never completed school and Steve Jobs, who dropped out of [...]

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Live your Dreams : Part 2

Sachin Tendulkar was given an option to choose between two schools, one with a good educational standard and other with a good sports background. At a tender age of 11 how many of us can make that decision ? Thankfully that’s the best decision he ever made, for himself and for all of India.

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Live your dreams : Part 1

The first in the series is a person to whom every gen-y person is either already connected or wants to be connected be that knowingly or unknowingly.From music addiction in form of iPod or a laptop owner’s dream the sleek and stylish Macbooks. Yes I we are talking about none other than the man himself Steve Jobs, CEO Apple Inc.

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Find what you love in life before it’s too late

Are you doing in life what you love to do ? Will you be happy in the same profession just 2 years down the line, forget lifetime? Do you really wake up to do that job everyday or are you doing it for some other reason, read as money? Have you ever asked yourself the [...]

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