I came to office
early today. To work. Alas, things don’t always happen the way we plan. So here
I am writing this post and checking jobs on naukri before others
walk in and start applying for the same jobs.
In this post I
am going to steal the idea of one management thinker and repackage it and sell
it back to you. Heard about Charles Handy? .. Go wiki on him and his theories. And
you can also google and flipkart him. But I am going to copy him.
So he talks
about this theory of Portfolio life. Imagine if you treated the days of your
life as coins in your kitty and you needed to spend them on a basket of
goodies. Essentially building a portfolio
of things you would like to do each day instead of doing the same thing
everything day. Imagine everyone following this theory in their lives.. Oh what
fun will it be! And full of funny too!... Let me tell you how..
So imagine our good old Ramu kaka suddenly
switches to portfolio life. He wants to be five different things on 5 working
days of the week (yes.. atleast in the perfect future, everyone works only 5
days!). So on Monday he is ramu kaka himself when he brings you your morning
tea and spills it on your brand new arrow shirt you were planning to impress
your lady boss with. Yes ofcourse, not a cool start of the week! Ramu kaka gets
some piece of your spotless mind.
On Tuesday, he
is Ramesh Pandey, the traffic hawaldar who places himself at the same traffic light
that you decide to jump. His revenge shall drill a hole in your shirt!
On Wednesday, tables
turn and he is the night guard for your building. Your dog Edward makes sure he
doesn’t sleep a wink.
By Thursday, you
can imagine how annoyed Rammaiya, the waiter the at idli dosa eatery is. So when
you order you favourite sambhar, he doesn’t forget to spit in it. And to top it
up, on Friday he skips his turn at the post-office and checks in as the dhobi
who will burn your Arrow shirt!
Thankgod the
future is far away!
