A Day in Corporate life

A Day in Corporate life

"Corporate life". One must not have ever heard this word in childhood. Not in any of the phases. But the time has come, years of studies past. Now we get to hear this word "Corporate". What does this word actually mean? We never knew and this got lost in our daily routine.

As time passes by, we try to find a job. After a lot of trials, so called "failures", we found one and we are the kings and Queens of the world when we find one. 

There comes the first day of our first job, and there is when we hear this word again from a beautiful lady who walks in the conference room for induction.

"Corporate""Corporate".

But what is this?

Oh! Is it the huge buildings with glassy walls and full of trees and garden around or is it the people moving around with laptops talking to each other in English using lots of jargon about work. Whatever it is, makes us very nervous. We dont know anything and there is an ocean to explore in future days.

Sometimes, I wondered, will there be any person who thinks like me, who has same simple way of living and who comes from a family which thinks a lot when it comes to spending each penny. And whenever we see a person at the workplace, we wonder, why is he so serious? Can't  he even smile. Is this "Corporate"?

Month passes by, we become a part of all that what we thought about Corporate. But How? May be the timeline crunches and the One-O-Ones are the reason. But there are numerous other reasons as well, to get versed in this world. What are they? There is a very big answer to it. You know, most of the times, you feel that there is an emptiness in here. No one to look after you because no one is allowed to even have a look at you from your home. All alone from your people. But one day, you see that you started to make circle of friends in here and you start to live your life in here as well. There are many seasons in this world too. One is when you find an electric smile of a girl whom you always thought of talking to. It feels great. Isn't it? But the question is how long that smile will last for me.

Of course, few smiles last forever. But you know that those are not real.

God knows what makes them smile even when they don't feel to.

One fine day I found the person who took my interview.......I remember, he asked me at the interview, "where do you want to see yourself after 2 years?", and without even waiting for a second thought I said “Team Leader".

Now every time I recollect this moment, I laugh at myself after realizing what it takes to become a Team Leader.

I didnt see much difference in this corporate life to school life. In school life, we studied for marks. Whereas in here, we work for promotion or recognition. Nothing is great!

One thing is for sure! How much ever great it may look from out side, it will look great, the difference can only be seen once get into it.

But hey, how much ever you say about corporate, It is the only thing that is giving you an identity to the world, and confidence to build your life. Be it a home or your family or neighborhood. And I believe we should never forget it.

Did you ever think that we have been talking about this world so long? But how do we come to this world daily. Obviously, the answer is, using Transport. But it is never a regular transport that comes in mind. 

Because it is when you feel 'Got to go to Office, perhaps there could be a way to take a leave'. But the same transport becomes a Jolly ride when you are going back to home from work when you feel 'this evening should never end'.

Doing all this, months passes by, years passes by, and after all these years, few of us try to find different meaning of "Corporate world". But most of us already realise that it is no different world. All it takes is what it is paying for.