I have been spending lot of time online of late. No, I am not researching anything fancy like:
- tips to tone your legs in just 5 minutes, gosh is it possible I must be dreaming
- ten best things to say to your boy-friend
- how to curb an irritating colleague who also happens to be smart and bags all the good projects
- what’s hot this winter
- how to increase traffic on your blog
I am sure I can just go on and on about it but I won’t since I need to talk about why am I or rather how am I spending my time online. I have been breaking my head on Naukri.com looking for PHP programmers. It’s more like a favor I am doing for my brother (well it will be wrong to call it a favor coz he said I can (or was it must?) bill him at the end of the month and the agony I am going through I have every intention of doing that) who is running his own business and doing very well for himself.
I was so tired of hearing, ‘let me think about it’; ‘I will call you back’, ‘I am not interested’, ‘I have just changed my job a month back’, and then I had had enough to call it a day. Who says unemployment is a major problem in India? Nobody seems to want a job. I keep calling every prospective candidate rattling same stuff, “salary is not a constraint for the right person, and we are conducting interviews even on Sundays” so much for inducing people to come for an interview and still no one seems to be bothered.
All this takes me back to the time when I was working and busy meeting recruitment targets. It makes me wonder that how I could do something for so long that bored me to tears. Quitting my job last year was the smartest decision I have ever made (infact I feel like treating myself to something nice for not finding another job as I was supposed to be on a short sabbatical and return back rejuvenated but never mind) and I am proud of the fact that I don’t get Monday blues and I don’t have to drag myself to work.


1 comments:
hi
me too facing the same problem. cities in india have opened up lot of options for youngsters. We were ready to travel 4 hours for job paying 5k - but now 15 k is just starting salary . hardships are things of past . any damm college gets recruiters nowadays. Wish our parents had follwed family planning till mid 80's :-)
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