Dreams and Career


The year was 1996.English class. We had some assignment on Tenses in the class. 
It was supposed to describe a hypothetical situation: "The Year is 2050.You come back to your school. How will you like to be introduced there?"
I had written the most conventional of all answers with a career path in mind.
The career path that could be one of the most hyped ones in the country today.
It was something like :
IIT-IIM-IAS-MP-PM

Phew! All the great fame of Indian life falling on one person. So burdened that person will be with so much of hype surrounding him. A fellow student is on the track of doing it right now. I believe some have already done that and will be 1-2 steps to becoming the PM

Anyways, Time moves on. The year is 2004.An interviewer asks me: What do you want to be in 5 years time?I answer become a manager. Lead a team and so on.

The year is 2006 and I had got what I had set out for 2 years back. Next what??

The year is 2010.I am about to complete my MBA and someone asks me what my dream job will be and I am speechless. I believe that there could be nothing like a dream job. All dream jobs are better left to the dreams.It should be something I will be willing to die for if I don't get one. I don't think there is any job left in the world for me. Perhaps becoming a hunter or gatherer like that BBC video might help :)

Anyways, I have started believing in having a career in more holistic sense and get out of the fame business and delved more into real business of business. But I am not sure if even this is right way of looking at a career.
Only time will tell.

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