Knowing when it’s time for you to quit!!!!!

Alright alright, i cant come up with something so intelligent, just came across this article i think it deserves a place where i can read it again 5-6 years down the line!!!!!!! And true to say i have got negative answers to all the questions and i would still be dragging myself to work tomorrow to support the Bloddy UAT going on!!!!!!
Enough Crap, The article :

What criteria should be used to determine if you have been with the same company too long?
—Jason Morrow, Salt Lake City
Your question reminds us of a friend of ours, an investment manager at a highly regarded company in the Midwest, who drove to work one morning, parked his car in the usual spot and then found he simply could not bring himself to get out.
“I guess I stayed on the farm one day too long,” he joked later. When we asked him what went wrong, he answered: “It was not one thing. It was everything.” No wonder he drove home and called in his resignation.
Obviously, most people do not decide they have overstayed at their companies in such a dramatic fashion. Usually, angst about work creeps in, and then builds until it consumes you. And, that can happen early or late in a career.
Gone are the days when, after graduation, you took the best available job and stayed for as many years as you possibly could stand, frustration be damned. These days, it is not unusual to hear of perfectly legitimate careers built on multiple job stints.
So, to your question, how can you tell when it is time to move on? We would not set out specific criteria as much as offer four questions to help sort out an answer. The first is so simple it almost goes without saying, but the fact that a lot of people do not confront it, including our friend who ended up stuck in his car—a Harvard MBA, by the way—suggests we go ahead and put it out there.
Look, do you want to go to work every morning?
This is not a matter to be over-thought. Does the prospect of going in each day excite you or fill you with dread? Does the work feel interesting and meaningful, or are you just going through the motions to pull a pay cheque? Are you still learning and growing?
We know of a woman who worked in consulting for seven years. She loved her firm and had originally planned a career with it, but suddenly started noticing that she wished every weekend was five days long. “Basically, I felt like we were putting together massive books in order to make recommendations to people who knew more than we did,” she said. “Everyday at the office, I felt a little bit more of a hypocrite.” She now happily works on the “front lines”, to use her phrase, in the marketing department of a retail company.
Second, do you enjoy spending time with your co-workers or do they generally bug the living daylights out of you?
We are not saying you should only stay at your company if you want to barbecue with your team every weekend, but if you do not sincerely enjoy and respect the people you spend 10 hours a day with, you can be sure you will eventually decide to leave your organization. Why not make the break sooner rather than later, and start cultivating relationships at a firm where you might actually plant roots?
Third, does your company help you fulfil your personal mission?
Essentially, this question asks whether your company jibes with your life’s goals and values. Does it require you, for instance, to travel more than you would like, given your chosen work-life balance? Does it offer enough upward mobility, given your level of ambition? There is no right or wrong answer to questions such as these, only a sense of whether you are investing your time at the right or wrong company for you.
Fourth, and finally, can you picture yourself at your company in a year?
We use that time frame because that is how long it usually takes to find a new, better job once you decide to move on. So, peer as best you can, into the future, and predict where you will be in the organization, what work you will be doing, whom you will be managing and who will be managing you. If that scenario strikes you with anything short of excitement, then your runway is too short. Or put another way, you are just about to stay too long.
To be clear: We are not suggesting people quit at the first inkling of discontent. No matter where you work, at some point you will have to endure difficult times, and even a deadly dull assignment, to survive a crisis or move up. But, it makes little sense to stay and stay at a company because of inertia. Unlock your door and get out.

Source :
http://www.livemint.com/2008/07/23184628/Knowing-when-it8217s-time-f.html?atype=tp

Weekend Getaways!!!!!

After a long week of bullshit work, late nights, one can really use a weekend of peace and fresh air in the hills. Out of the few weekend trips i have had(Jaipur, Agra, Kasauli), This weekends trip to Kasauli was the most expensive and less of fun. Probably coz we did not drink much! 3 Cheers to BP for this, guy who used to drink a bottle did not go beyond 2 drinks!!!!!! Also the duration was very less, bloody 2 days only. we ended up staying in the hotel/cab for like 90% of the time!!!!!!

There i was, Sunday 5:30 AM, verranda of our hotel, looking through the beautiful landscape in front of me, with clouds fighting for space below and birds flying about in the spirit of a new dawn.

Then just kept standing there and looking into the most peaceful morning i have ever had!!!! Far away from the bullshit of work, shitty share market and the complexities of life, looking into the horizon and the rising sun casting its rays slowly on the clouds below.
This was the last trip we guys might have together, Aditi's flying this weekend, so its just me, ahuja and BP now... Well, thats not really a bad thing, now Ahuja is a free bird (Am just joking Adi!!!)...

Thoughts of a Blogger

Am not an avid blogger, but i really love to read a few...
Life comes full circle on reading some posts. Just wanted to mention the blogs of a few friends and what i feel that makes them come up with all this crap ;-P

Rahul Datta:
Gawd this guys got talent, this guys writes really refined english which has at times forced me to look up in the dictionary. Speaks his mind, though i guess his love life has taken a major share of his blogging skills, i think its the inner self of rahul that speaks to him when he's writing this stuff. I still remember the college times when he was running for the Mr. University Title, came up with a beautiful poem out of nowhere, right there on the stage, and i know it was fresh, i was with him all day. Damn that fly that committed suicide on hearing it ;-) It was a plot to sabotage his performance, he still continued after eating the fly(alive or dead is still a mystery). Check him out at
http://prestine-devil.blogspot.com/

Rajiv Barara:
The biggest Asshole i have met in my complete lifetime, and inspite of this he's a good friend (Not sure he will be after reading this). A total drunkard, can get drunk anywhere, anyway with anything!!!!! Our first trip together(GOA) was totally awesome, me,rajiv and NDA totally had a blast... Writes all the crapy rap possible, and a little secret, u cannot get one hindi word out of his mouth when he's out drunk, and i guess all his good compositions (if any) have come after half a bottle of whisky... Check him out at
http://worldwrapped.blogspot.com/

Anmol Singh:
Mr. Straight Talks... Gem of a guy to work with, he has the funda in the anda of the danda...
Too cool, its all fun and little work when we are together, Had just recently started blogging, have not had a chance to got through the posts, but more about the corporate culture and the bloody cliches(Our word) associated with it... The latest being 'BandWidth'!!!!! Check him out at
http://anmol-straighttalks.blogspot.com/

Nikhil Pandey:
Most recent addition to the Blogspot, i never knew my brothers got so much talent hidden somewhere up his arse!!!!! A tottally wella guy, flooring the CGP, yet thinks he's somewhere amongst Newton, Einstein... Non Sensical theories and equally preposterous explanation... And now got a medium to lent out his lava of bullshit, he's also trying to get his pocket money through blogging, so you have to check him out at
http://dynamix-redefined.blogspot.com/
and dont forget to click on the Ads(he made me maggi for this ;-) )....

Thats about it.. More will come as soon as this CR finishes!!!!!!

The Misery of life....

"The grass is greener on the other side"
Why are ppl not content with their life, why is it that they behave as saddists????
Sitting here, watching life just flow by me, i have realized one thing, Letting go of life is NOT such a bad idea after all!!!!
Ppl today have NO patient, no sensible ears and neither they respect the thoughts of one another, not just ur office, its the same in your house too, wonder y i am shouted at every morn. for getting late for the cab, then the bloody cab driver keeps mumbling for rest of the journey, and the look at Neha's face, swear to god we'll have a brawl smday in the cab, we are too very opp. ppl stuck up in the same cab!!!! She has a prob. with everything i do or say!!!!
Then at the office, i am fucking sick of all the politics being played, everybody thinks he/she is doing the rite thing, including me ;-) but then i tried the laid back approach!!!! it kinda works, just play some creed on high volume and think tht ur just observin these ppl on earth going abt their daily chores from the sky!!!!!Soon i realised that the electrons within the ppl of my team are magnetically repulsive of each other, so wen certain 2-3 ppl in the team some within a meters distance it creates an aura of bullshit arnd the team, which leads to delusions, conflicts and issues!!!!!!!!
Another update, Mr Anmol Singh has started blogging, nowadays he does not have/take up much work so half the time he's posting smthing!!!!.

I have missed quite a few posts in between, lets see if i find time to write them!!!!!!