Many Nights Fight For One Project

Sometime I think, Is it right to spend many of our nights for office work?

Does it make senses If company pay you very well then you should start thinking about the company. I can never come to the ratiocination. When we start our career we fly in the open sky of dreams but when we come to know the real truth of business world then we realise that dreams are dreams. The only thing is our soul and mindset that keep us in peaceful state.

I remember the time which I have spent in my last company for one of the project. We were total six people working on that project. We had very tight timeline for completing it. It was one of the challenging task of my life.

It was very important project for me not just as I started my career but I had to do it for company. I had to do my best for it. Not a single day of six month (Target time for completing the project) I didn't think about myself. I didn't know the real truth of business world that's why I was very much dedicated towards company.

Main motive is not to tell that you should not dedicated towards the company but you should dedicated towards you work, towards your career, your growth.

Because company does for you only and only if you have a required skill to grow their business because they are in market only for business. You are selling your skills to them, if you don't have those skills set you can never survive in the market.

Real fact was dedication, that was not for my career not for my growth, it was only for the company for which I was spending my nights for completing the project.

If you are in peace that mean you are very much satisfy with the task whatever you are doing in your professional and personal life. My definition of peace is "Peace is an expression of love - that allows creativity, strength, Wisdom to emerge and to continue the ongoing work of creation of the Divine Source - for re-creating the world into its original form of love, peace, justice, joy, absence of suffering and without anything lacking"

Peace means when your mind is in your control. Whatever you think, realise and express that does not related to heart that is related to the mind. You are in self motivation state that means you are in peace.

Lets come to the cover story. Project, deadline, customer satisfaction, hard work, meet the time line, code quality, unit testing of what you have written, write down test cases before QC. All these are some horrible term but quite interesting.

It was 2 o'clock in the night when i wanted to clarify my doubt from one of my brilliant colleagues. Seems to be very scary that am asking my doubt at 2 in the night but it is true. Myself, my team leader basab kumar banarjee, Mohneesh singh, subhasis gorai, pradeep c, Nitin Chaudhary, ram prasad all we were working together for finishing the project as soon as possible and yes we were working in late nights. The name of our project was "REPAIR". I don't know that we were repairing the old project or we were trying to build the new application. 

But it doesn't matter what was it. We 6 people
were enjoying the coding and the moment was giving me the full peace of mind. I was working for myself, for my career and for my growth not for my employer. 

My TL was the great human being. He always used to say, "Always do for yourself and learn from your past experience". It was bit tough to get into the work which you don't like to do but it is also true that if you involve you mind your heart in any kind of work, you would get a full peace of satisfaction and pleasure.

2 years has passed and am not with my old company. I have changed the job. One day in the month of september 2007, i came to know that the project which gave me full peace of mind has reached to it's destination. Customer are pretty happy with it and it is successfully running in the production. 

Moral of the story is that your old work and your past experience can only guide you for your future growth. Whatever you are doing consider it that you are doing it for yourself not for your employer.