Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Action Verbs & In-action silences

For all the criticisms heaped on our exam systems, they are pretty objective & unambiguous on what they are looking to grade you on! As a result, every exam (right from Std. 1 to Middle School Scholarship to 10th to JEE) was algorithmic. At worst it was intractable but never was it infeasible.

Real world or as it appears from this juncture, isn't so! Hence I have to Innovate, Initiate, Assess, Execute & otherwise navigate my way through the jungle of Action Verbs - so that I sell to people. Every action in the last few years is looked at, commented upon, evaluated back and forth so often that I wonder whether my entire existence was to stand in good stead on 2 A4 sheets.

I never felt so sold before.

8 comments:

$udhi said...

thats bad
but hey, at least you're good enough to be sold :P


~$udhi :)

$udhi said...

umm... on serious note-

whats more important for you?
the joy and experiences those activities/"resume points" added to your life?
or
the sheer value of it on the A4 page?

for me its both
I enjoy what I do, and I am happy to write about it

~$udhi :)

Sudeep said...

It's not too bad!

At least you didn't do all those things in those last few years so that you may sell to people now.

Cheer up! :)

Shantanu said...

@Sudhi : I have just put myself for Sale -- Haven't been sold yet.
But true the joy of those things is amazing.

@Sudeep : In retrospect things start to seem hazy. But I hope I didn't.

Metallica bhakt! said...

even after you are "sold" the price that an antique piece like u(no pun intended :p) will fetch will be way too higher for u to sit and brood over these days when u have to decide ur price! ;)

SaiK said...

real world is not at all humble and modest.. corporate world is the least of all :)

Maks said...

=))

Shantanu said...

@yashshri: Might be true, which makes it even more worthwhile to know one's price beforehand@

@SaIk: Guess I'll burn my fingers :-x

@Maks: Good to see you arnd :D