Hi I spend 24 hours of daily precious life of mine as follows 8 hours - work (efficiently) 3 hours - travel 8 hours - sleep 1 hour - getting ready for work 1.5 hours - 3 meals in a day 2.5 hours - leisure
when the work pressure is up, i give 10-11 hours daily.. everything is screwed up..
I am almost spending 50% of a day working, 40% sleeping/eating/getting ready, etc and only 10% for myself.. Now the problem is following: i want to be good at work.. want to enjoy my life fully now when i am 25( and not when i am 45 or so)... how can i increase this meager 10% of daily life for myself?? if someone can help in this regard using their time management or any other management skills, pls reply..
Information Tech is the root cause for spoiling our precious India culture. In this competitive world we should get used to be satisfied first of all. Work life balance should be given priority, I feel if you are satisfied with what u have then you will enjoy the other part of life else go to HELL.
it is all up to you.to take care of yourself.you should draw line between professional and personal life.in this competitve world keeping yourself is more important than anything else.keep this in mind.plz remeber it is the sound body that makes the sound mind.there several ways to keep yourself away from this dilemma .it noting but proper planning of work
RE:You can strike a balance if you choose wisely
by Sunit Kumar on Jul 13, 2007 07:46 PM Permalink
Anshul Bansa, are u from Aptech (borivli), if u r man u did a fantastic job !!! Congrats !!
I am in embedded domain and have been working for exacly 8 hours a day..prevoulsy used to work 18 to 20 hours..but now I have changed my priorities..Now I have to live the life and enjoy it to the full extent..today I am earning good money ..enjoying it..doing good for company...by the end of 30 years I want to leave this field..and want to start working as a teacher where I can have calm,smooth flowing life
I am in a consulting company and have been working for 10-12 hrs a day.. I have worked in the US and Europe..they work the same ours as we do atleast in consuting domain.. the choice lies with me.. I make enough money to retire by the age of 40.. so either i can slog for 15020 yrs and retire.. or work all my life to stike the balance.. join and PSU.. enjoy work life balance.. join the big 5.. retire early..
And what about waste of time of 4-5 hours only for travelling in Mumbai, in addition to 9-10 hrs duty. What is life for perople who are earning Rs.3000-4000 p.m. after so much struggle?. Hindus believe that we get human life after 84 million births? I request them to ponder over this degraded living standard? Apart from this huge competition everywhere. No pure water, shortage of electricity, costly commodities, huge school fees, the list is endless.
RE:WASTE OF TIME IN TRAVELLING IN MUMBAI
by PartingShot on Jun 13, 2007 03:42 PM Permalink
Dinkar What u have said is true it was because of the things u said i left bombay and went some where else to work.I suggest if possible u also do the same ,bombay is going to be worse in the coming years is going to be worse.quality of life for everybody is bad
The same IT companies which make people slog here in their Indian branches don't act the same way in their product development center. They also know that a person cannot be attentively involved in work more than eight hours, but most of the work (including IT) coming to india is hi tech coolie work, which doesn't ask for a lot of creativity. So, they know that the work can be done with acceptable level of quality even if the person is made to toil for 14 hrs a day. The picture is quite different in Indian companies who work on developing their own product and don't work on outsourced projects. But unfortunately, there are really very few such companies...
We are what we are today mostly because of the boom in the IT industry and the money that was associated with it in the late 90s when IT professionals made huge money. Logic today is simple "Karne wala hein tho karwane wale Hazaar milenge" and with a country of size India this is bound to happen with lack of Education and powerful media presence. Media has an opportunity to educate which some do and some dont. IT industry is one which screwed up Morals, Individual and business ethics and work culture namely and the list can go on. End of the day it is all about money that you can let go by not earning by working so hard. Opportunity cost that you can let go which most people today dont want to give up. Work where you can find satisfaction within and happiness in your families not places where it leads to families breaking friends. God Bless Indians.
