Counting exact number of days, its been 261 days since I have not had a full time job. During this time, Nikhil and I have relocated to another country. One could say that I have taken the time to first wrap-up a household and then set one up all over again, plus taken the time to “settle-down” in the new place. For many calls and mails I have also remarked that “I’ve been busy”.
Well, looking back at my days…I realise that life has gotten much slower for me. As if giving me 36 hours a day to account for. And ‘productivity’ moves from one decision to another. Days spent at work used to demand my time be regulated and rationed, every moment feeding into objectives and deliverables. Without really being aware, take a hundred different kinds of decisions everyday. And with each decision done, one section of the work-life was behind me.
Decisions now are totally different. Selecting a meal composition seems much sundry to choosing which client to reach out to. Days are lazier, pace is leisurely, stress virtually non-existent, consequences of decisions are not as far reaching, neither is any objective pushing a deadline. The kind of life that once in a while, every professional wishes for.
But right now, I would gladly trade for ‘plans that will pack the weekend’ with meeting schedules which will burst the seams of a work week. Trade my recipe’ exchange chatter with networking leads. Trade my gaining weight with earning promotions. And above all, trade my lazy noons with decision-packed, action-frenzy work mornings.
Got some ideas, guys?
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