I was confident of my career growth, till I got a call yesterday. I am quite content with my work believing that I am exposed to a lot of experiences. I did a consultancy for one of the leading UN agency, my project was recognized as one of the best in the state, our sweet Delhi Doordarshan has made a documentary on the revolutionary changes that we brought in through our project !! I was interviewed by DD, my name has appeared in several English and Hindi Daily and already I have started feeling like a celebrity! But all my illusions were brought to an end with a simple phone call. Now I am feeling like the biggest looser on this planet. It seems like my sweet dream has ended in a nightmare. I am feeling the way R.V. Winkle must have felt when he woke up after 20 years of sleep. Everything looks unknown and difficult! Most of life was wasted on sleeping and dreaming.
My brother has been one of the biggest strength in my life. I consider him as my biggest strength because he made me stronger with his unique way of analyzing my all kind of moves regarding studies, career … His analysis has this very raw nature of coming out with a harsh truth. The truth will always make a looser out of me. But I always turned out to be the winner. I am the winner because in spite of being the biggest looser, I move on. The recent analysis has come out with the truth that in last 5 years of my working, my career growth was only 5% per anum in terms of monetary value (phew!.. I never thought of it.) So I must make a move immediately so that the growth rate can at least catch up with our inflation rate which is at higher end then my career growth. He gave me this learned insight over a phone call.
I was also thinking on this to make a move from my present job which is 3 years old to a new one. I have become stagnate and needed a change badly. But it never occurred to me that I am incurring a loss of 2%-3% every year because the inflation rate is 7%-8% and my growth rate is 5%! Here again I am the looser. But I must deserve a pat on back for my creative strength (now I know why they call the Scorpios as creative person). I loved to believe that my career was taking a good shape. It is my creativity which has designed such an illusion around me and made me happy for last couple of years!
1 comment:
The inflation rate is 5.25% officially. In real term it should be somewhere between 7% to 8% though. We have dearness allowence to somewhat compensate for it.
However, annual increament in salary is actually for using the scarce resource called life. With every year that pass by you should be worth more because you are using a scarce resource called life. in the demand -supply analysis, the supply of life is fixed. So, the price should go up to compensate for the loss of the resources. That's simple market theory.
There should be proper value to this scarce resource, if they are not giving it you should look for the market where you can get the correct value of it.
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