To which he was completely taken aback and said, I've never viewed it from that angle. He said, yeah, these careers are serious business, so you take your career seriously. And yes, there are ways to make it exciting. I can help you with that. As it turns out, he withdrew his resignation. Love to know your thoughts on this
A lot of students should be taught and enlightened about the lifestyles attached to whatever jobs and careers they're aspiring to, because they need to be aware that it's not just about scoring high in certain subjects that are required to get into that field. You also need to know if you have the skills or the interest or the inclination to live that lifestyle that's associated with that job
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 0:44
It. Well, thanks so much for taking the time to respond, and you've packed in a lot of thoughts and a lot to unpack. But thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and your career timeline and journey. Yes, I guess as long as you figured out what you want to do and more importantly, what you don't want to do, I think that's a good step forward
If you meet them, you automatically feel a sense of accomplishment and if you exceed them, you can be on a high. So if you are in the best device sales roles where you have quotas to achieve, that has a very inbuilt reward mechanism, the literal reward mechanism because you get bonuses and things tied to it as well. But then just that thrill of signing a new customer, your brain releases the dopamine to give you that kick, right?
Nidhin George 🔷
@geo_rhymes · 4:47
They want to integrate that job and the work and their life together. And that means you have to experiment. Then there is the other side of things, of the instant gratification thing. In a world of opportunities, you don't really have a motivation or a need to stick around any longer than the bare minimum. Something's not working out. Well, there's always another option just around the corner. But ideally, both of these things are necessary
So I think this is my take that you still can end up loving what you do, even if you don't choose a career that you think you love. So, yeah, I'm curious to know how your colleague is faring now. I do hope he figured things out and I'm sure he did with you to guide him. So, yeah. Thank you so much once again for this interesting story
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 2:13
And so likewise at work you will have to figure out ways to coexist with and move between moments of great excitement and utter boredom and then still exit your career at least 90% happy. And 10% of the times, like I said, is the bad debt theory. If stuff has to go wrong, it'll go wrong and you can't do anything about it. So let's not fret about that 10%. Rather worry about that 90%. That did work well
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 1:20
So it's not like I gave him some prescriptions and saying, hey, follow this, one, two, three, and magic will happen. That's not the goal, and I do not do that ever. In fact, even in my podcast, right in bus talk in the long form one, the whole goal is to not be etched in stone, but to induce the listener to say, hey, I didn't think of it that way
Aayan Banerjee
@BasTalk · 1:46
And so I guess that too goes through a bell curve situation, I think. To answer your question, what resonated with me and in my interaction was folks who are doing research and development, they derived the maximum job sat. And when I say job sat, I define it as not cribbing and complaining about anything and everything around you your boss, your colleagues, your budget, your salary, your this or that
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:12
Hello Aayan. It's been a while since I listened to your swell and very happy to listen to this one and wanted to chime in naturally. And this topic is also very interesting. I think we've had a discussion on these lines before as well. But this one, as LG 90 said, there is so much to unpack and there are so many insights to sort of assimilate, I would say, and very true, I think