A change of job comes with its upsides and downsides. After my recent switch, I’ve got a decent pay-hike (better than my counterparts … with IT raises hitting rock-bottom this year), decent work-hours (yea, I know its because I’m still ‘new’ and nobody can dump work on me that I don’t understand ;-) ),working conditions conducive to productivity, a good boss (I can’t stress enough on that!!) and a good shot at making a decent (read rocking) career for myself. But there are days, some days, but yet there are those days, when I miss my good ol’ company. I don’t shy away from hard-work, but I think there are times I’d like to be one of the ‘hardly-working’ types…Call it nostalgia, but I can’t help missing the free time I had on my hands a few months back (it’s a whole different issue that I didn’t use it much, except to have fun :P ). But now that I’m here, not only do I have work (to do and learn), I also need to get started with my extremely, terribly, long-overdue plan of giving GMAT. Plus, the part I hate most is that I miss my friends. There are nice people here, and everyone keeps telling me that it takes some time to make friends and get comfortable, yet I keep missing ‘my’ friends. I miss the familiar faces, the friendly waves, the small talk with people whose names I keep forgetting, my window-seat, the green gardens and the ‘chai ki tapri’. I bet I could keep going on but I want to stop. It’s a different kind of feeling to be surrounded by people who are competent, know what needs to be done, and do not get off your back till the job is done the right way. I like this feeling of responsibility, which was absent (at least on the work-front) for quite some time now. I can feel my ambitions fledging. It is different but it feels okay.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that change is inevitable, it’s our decision to either get on with it or keep holding on to a more secure past. I’m still in touch with the friends I keep missing all day long, but I don’t feel bad about it anymore. I’m not best friends with anyone in my new company yet, but I’m sure I can survive 10 hours a day with these guys now… But most of all, I look forward to making sure that this change is for the better.
