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Fresh out of B-school
Campus... just ambled into your first job just because you got it easy
on Campus... The reality of "CTC" Pay Package has dawned on you when you
check your first pay-slip... Just realized that the worst professor in
college is still better than your first Boss... Feel somehow that your
life is stuck in MS-OFFICE - The reality of life for MBAs is Excel or
PowerPoint, I heard Google is catching up at campus. Having gone through
this myself, (I am still not out of it!), having had the nightmare of
freshly minted MBAs reporting to me every year (90% of MBAs in their
first job believe that their first Boss in Incompetent) and struggling
to manage their transition to reality, guess I am now in a position to
give some Gyan on assessing your job and career moves. I crystallized
these thoughts while discussing these situations with a friend of mine,
her issues with the first job where similar to what most of you would be
facing. Job!! Money !! or Career !!
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Money is not
Important: - I do not actually mean it, not that I am asking
you to struggle through an insipid low paying job. I did that for
almost a year. But the rules of taxation are such that anybody
earning between Rs.5.00 Lakhs to Rs. 10.00 Lakhs per annum ends up
more or less with a similar quality of life. So if you are just
switching jobs for a few thousand more, think twice, it may not be
worth it. Do not concentrate on money right now. It is not too
difficult to make money. But nobody is going to pay you a higher
salary because you ask for it, organizational decision making
processes are far too complex. It is not how hard you work or how
you please the boss that matters! I tried this for a couple of years
to no effect. The crux of the matter is what "Value" you are
delivering to the organization, if the Organization as a whole (at
least the people who matter) sees you deliver value they have no
option but to pay for it.
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Evaluate
Payoffs: - Any Company or everybody pays you to get a job
done. The choice you have to make is whether you really want to do
"that" Job. Here what you need to check is - are you emotionally
enjoying the job. I have seen guys struggling through high-pressure
and stressful sales jobs, because of incentives, commissions and
Quarterly conference at plush location when they would be much
happier doing a less glamorous job that they would enjoy. This is
also seen in situations when people are stuck in so called
"Corporate Office" positions assisting the Senior Management with
their Excel or PowerPoint, although there is a glamour attached to
being in the Corporate Office etc, check whether you are actually
adding to your skills. You would be better off on the Shop Floor or
Field Sales at a younger age.
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