yesterday they asked me can india have companies like google, facebook, apple.. my first thought was if u ever let people follow their passion..and with the day coming to an end it just reinforced my point that this kind of encouragement would not come netym soon!..
corporate sector! every one here aspires to be steve jobs but i bet hardly a few can dare to break that glass ceiling and do something beyond the ordinary..beyond wat the chain of command asks them to do..beyond sitting in their cubicles with eyes bored into data sheets and desktops!
well if u r wondering y suddenly the corporate world is facing my ire it is because today i faced my first or first two interviews with a renowned business analyst company and wat i ended up learning aftr the process was "i need to muster the art of telling lies!"..in both the interview rounds of this company i was asked the ques "what are ur plans for the future?"..i having never felt the need to lie on such a basic question, went about my plans of starting an ngo or at some point of time even adopting a village and making it self sufficient..never once throughout the session did the panelists make me feel that i was going off track or this wasn't wat they were luking for..they kept probing and smiling and so i kept blabbering..when i finally came out of the room i was so calm, relaxed and my naivety was such that i thought i couldn't have answered the ques better (but they truthfully would have yielded better results had i lied!)..but i didn't realise my mistake till the results were out and as it so happened i hadn't made it..i aftr a moment of realisation of wat had just happened i went up to one of the panelists of the intrview and asked "wat went wrong?"..she with all the tact that these people have repiled with utter politeness "i wouln't put it like something went wrong..it was only that u we appreciate are going for a very noble cause..ngo and all..but we are not looking for that sort of a profile"!..the 'mistake' dawned upon me and i left without saying a word..at home my dad told me how "grossly politically incorrect" i had been telling a core business oriented company that wat i finally want to do is start an ngo!..never-the-less i'm not utterly disappointed coz this experience has certainly taught me a big lesson which i hope hasn't come too late in life..just tell them wat they want to hear and not wat u want to tell..
