My thoughts about Success

My thoughts about Success

1. Each person has their own definition of success.
2. Wanting success is the first step towards attaining it.
3. Self-trust is essential.
4. Goals are stepping stones on your path.
5. Your actions affects you’re out come, so success also depends on what action you performed.
6. There is no doubt there are setbacks, but each setback provides valuables lessons to avoid pitfalls.
7. You should manage your resources and maximize your efforts.
8. Keep in mind, every level of success brings new challenges.
9. Success should be a process that never ends.
10.Opportunity will be presented.

Working on the weekends.

Working on the weekends.

I’m in IT industry for 8+ years. In those years I never be a 9-5 Monday- Friday guy. I get in early, staying late, taking work home and working weekends. It’s not that whole year is like that. There are few pockets in years where you do relax. It’s not me alone, who work so hard, mostly I think every IT professionals work on weekends. That’s my belief that if you want to prove yourself, gets ahead and advanced your IT career, then work longer than the average person. But I think it also depends on project to project.

Being a QA guy on running projects and usually we work both Saturdays & Sundays when there is new deployment or have a big upgrade or something else. We need to work very long hours. And mostly companies do deployments on weekend. The logic behind that is so that your deployment doesn’t affect your production and your business. We need to back up a 24 hour operation and have to do what it takes.

But the worst part, the worst part is coming on Monday. If you work too much on the weekend and you doesn't feel so good come Monday! I think weekend work was part of the IT job. It usually meant 2-3 weekend a month. However my company does pay a weekend overtime, which my Project Manager doesn’t like it. I take 4 weeks of vacation a year.

My personal thoughts, about how to behave with your co-worker.

My personal thoughts, about how to behave with your co-worker.

That’s the thing I don’t like about IT job. Today I’m doing nothing. Today is very boring day. I have nothing to do. It’s always like that after big sign-off. You work like a dog till sign-off and after it done, it’s so quite. You look for any job to do to kill the quietness. I’m doing the same. I am trying to find some job so that kills silence. Put in this way, show other team member that I have job to do. In IT if you don’t have any thing to do, then you have act as that you are dam busy. IT job make you actor. If you are good actor, you are best employee. Nobody care if you are doing your job very effectively and quickly. They care how good you act to showing other that you are the only person, who is running the show.

Second, your co-worker will never ever be your friend. How much they talk to you. How much you share with them. How much they share with you. It doesn’t matter how many time you hangout together. Co-worker is co-worker. Never try to be friends with them. Always keep a very good distance with them. If you are keeping some distance. You will be happy. If not your office life as well as your personal life will be mess. Really mess.

Third, never ask favour from co-worker at your personal level. It doesn’t matter if you are open with them or not. If you need any favour from co-worker, always follow the company’s rules. Today, I’m little bit burnt. Burn by heart! I ask a return favour from my 2 co-workers. Guess what, they denied. They denied because I asked favour at my personal level. That’s a blunder mistake I did. This is a blunder mistake. This makes you very weak in front of your co-worker. So never ever ask favour from co-worker.