Campus to Corporate?? No way…

Don’t we all miss home at times?? There is an urge within us all the time to get back home. Even I do, but which one?? It puzzles me, confuses me. Is it my home in Noida that’s calling me, or my Institute, or is it the company that I joined 4 months back? Everyday I come back to my flat (another home ), I miss the floor, the work desk…and what not.

Each phase of life brings upon new challenges and in the beginning of each one, there is a sort of reluctance to enter the new world. We would wish to stay in our comfort zone.  But, whenever I look forward to have such a change, I have always faced disappointment. May be it’s the way I perceive each of my life journeys. There’s nothing distinctly dissimilar among the different worlds that I had entered at one or the other stage.

There’s a Campus to Corporate Induction program, to ensure smooth transition into the Corporate World. At that time, I truly believed that I should get ready to be more formal, more sincere etc. May be these were the inhibitions till now that kept me from writing a similar post. Over the time, in a period of just 4 months, I feel I am back to my campus. There’s no change from the world I come from. But I am not disappointed, it’s so great to be a part of family.

It’s hard to believe the underlying fact, that there are so many awesome people at the same place at the same time in this new world. To say the least, it’s like my campus revisited. Even at campus, I am sure that most of us loved the hostel life, not to take away the academic life which was part and parcel of the campus life. However, being at this home, even work seems pleasure and fun. Whether be it our team of 4, or the gang of 14 new joinees, or my manager, or my US clients – they’re just freakingly awesome. How would you react to this – you stay in the office late to finish up some work, and the next day you get a mail from US – “What the heck, Prateek!!! Please go home”. Haha…it’s so lovely, so caring. Till now, it was just my parents who would be worried about all this…and that’s why I am loving it, it’s nothing to do with the work, but with smiles that I see on most of the faces, the pleasing noise of chit-chatting that I hear passing by any desk. It never used to be like this in our campus, to be more specific, during the class hours. But, over here, this is something I am experiencing while at work. There are no issues whatsoever, except when I had to bring up something during the admin meeting .

When emotions ooze out of me like this, I write a post because even after sharing the same with all of my colleagues, it’s still too much to digest for me. I am not missing my home, my campus…I just remember them. How can I feel that I have left them behind, because it’s the same here. Every day is a sort of rememberance to my days of past. It’s like living the past again, which I believe each one of us wish to relive. Every night when I am on my way home, there is a smile on my face, an expression of satisfaction and happiness, my ears vibrate to the music that, may be, is coming from within me. May be this won’t last forever, may be it’s just at the beginning, may be it’s the same as my Institute and my hostel, Saras, where for an year I felt that everyone can love everyone. But, soon it dawned upon me that not anyone can like everyone. I hope that at this new place, it continues forever. Only difference that I see is, in Insti we had the same faces for 5 years, but at company we see a new face each day !!!

I have not moved into a different world. Somehow it feels that I am never supposed to undergo any transition. It’s just that the other world, which seems so different from another world, undergoes a transition when I enter it. It is just the same as the previous one. Where is the need of a program for me to adapt to it. The world has adapted itself according to me. I just woke up in the morning, and poured in my thoughts onto this blog. When I write, even the breakfast is waiting for me…it seems to me that everyone is waiting for me, trying to make me feel the same as I have never felt before…there’s just a smile on my face, a glow in my eyes…it’s just a reflection that the new world is not corporate any more. It has transformed into my campus, my home, my world. It doesn’t matter to me if I need to pull out night outs to have the same, obviously I realize that I need to work a bit – I am getting paid to stay at home . And as I got carried away by my emotions, I feel a bit of my energy did drain out…so preparing to recharge myself, getting ready to go to office…oops, i think home…whatever, i think it’s just the same. Corporate, it’s not!!! Love You!!! Awesome!!!

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