3 Weeks Later

Huff!!! Finally, into the internship. Now three weeks into the process and I have learnt a lot (not much about the industry, but about this firm and how the world out of IT companies is so different). The part of  curriculum, which only seem to be good if you get a PPO but for nothing else, has started making sense. There is a lot of opportunity to see what you have learnt in last year, what industry expects out of you an year later, what subjects were important and what subjects will Be important.

The biggest difference in this non-IT industry is that People Know What They Are Doing. In this energy industry, you know your job, how are the other functions related, how the finances are handled and most of all what are the direct and indirect consequences of your actions at the end result. You know you are working not only because your manager has asked you to and he will be pissed if you do not do what he has said and in the manner he has told. The job you perform has much larger effects than your annual rating. You are not coming to office to swipe the card and get your billing done by a Foreign client, but creating value to see your country develop and being a part of it. You are not providing service to some mammoth company of the west, but building framework for your country to take that shape which is respected by the world.

There are some things in this sector, which can counter my thoughts and could try to retune my mindset and which is generally the arguements by many people who are unsatisfied by the industry and how it works. The best one and most common one is to blame the government. They say about bureaucracy and corruption in govt. organizations, their dominant hold over the whole sector, their firms hindering the projected flows, their insufficient focus (Investments!) on infrastructural development, the delayed payments for work done, and many others and none of which is false or even mild. They are true and not only for this sector but for every industry in the Republic of India. But this does not mean things are not going to change or even if they dont, we need to grow, and providing cheap services to foreign companies and adding the fees to GDP is not at all helping.

But I am hating some part of this internship like travelling to NOIDA daily in third class(rather worse) city buses, passing through the parts of Ghaziabad, which I dreaded(I have to see that building on NH-24), waking up at 7 in the morning, sleeping at night. On the other side, I have met some really good people here who have taught me a lot about the sector.

I dont now, I might be developing an MBA perspective but now I can see the importance of various functions in the firm, how they are correlated, how they effect the business, and it is very interesting to see the interfacing complexities.