![]() And you go to see for yourself.Īnd now it is much too late for sculpting or fast-bowling or singing or designing.Ĭubiclenama takes a weekly look at the pleasures and perils of corporate life. Maybe a friend at the club knows of excellent properties at Opera House and Dadar. Or maybe have an espresso with “real estate advisors" at the Taj at Apollo Bunder. So you decide to scout locations yourself. Nudge.)įour years later and you are scrambling around Mumbai to establish the Indian head office of the British company you’ve just been hired to run. If it goes bust- unlikely in this booming economy boss! -a thousand banks will be happy to have you back. Start from home, keep overheads low, and use your excellent networks to make a breakthrough. Your first bonus is going to be the seed money for a trendy, cool design outfit in Mumbai. #WHO SINGS THIEF IN THE NIGHT OFFLINE#Play online or download to listen offline free - in HD audio, only on JioSaavn. Another year, maybe two, and you’ll make VP/manager. Listen to Thief in the Night on the English music album Dramer World by Qkj, only on JioSaavn. Also you’ve just seen Rock On for the fifth time and that old DeadlyDesigner is rearing up his head again. Banking/consulting is really, really time-consuming and sometimes it is just too hard to balance work and life. Not because of the money-there is too much nowadays to keep track of-but because now your parents can help with the children. Who needs the pay when you have the savings?įive years later you are relieved when you are finally transferred to the Mumbai office. Save like a psychopath, and then either open your own design outfit. Two-at the most three-years in that excellent bank/consult in Hong Kong. You have a new, better, more sensible strategy. Not a single advertising company comes to recruit. But you can’t get over the fact that the banking and consulting dudes made so much more money. Your internship with the FMCG multi-national is great. Once I get a chance to prove myself.the next Piyush Pandey? Prasoon Joshi? The thought itself makes you tingly. Sure, it will mean making a lot less money than everybody else. Then why not me? But I have a plan: Advertising. Even idiots are making 14 or 15 lakhs after wasting two years doing nothing in Ahmedabad or Bangalore or somewhere. Meanwhile, you are still designing the odd t-shirt or poster or coffee mug. Eventually, you will be able to decide on your own. It is a huge risk.īut there is a sense of liberation as your first few months at Infosys/Standard Chartered Bank roll by. But what was the point in educating you so much, at so much cost, if you were going to waste it all on some hippy career like design? Please do what is required without unnecessary discussion. This is done from the safety of the hostel telephone booth. Your email id is is why you broach the idea of perhaps joining a design firm. Next to each name in the handbook given away in final year is a photo and a nickname. “Boss, you should become a designer boss," says the comely thing in architecture. You are the toast of the college, and that too by second-year itself, when you design the most awe-inspiring t-shirts for the mechanical/commerce department. Surely.Īlso Read Sidin Vadukut’s earlier columns But your sculpting? You can’t sculpt anymore now. ![]()
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