Ever since Sindhu joined her new company ( from Campus) she travels with me in the morning to office and most of the times I drive her back to home from work.
Sindhu is my daughter who has just completed her engineering and has joined a captive center of a US MNC as a trainee.
Her office is two blocks away from my office in the same tech park at Bangalore.
So she gives me a dump of what has happened in her day everyday while we drive back.She talks about her frustrations where she continues to be on training even after 3 months of joining the company. She is eager to get some real hands on experience on what project work in the IT world looks like. However she has to wait for some time I guess. Her friends who joined with her from her campus have started getting into real work on some projects hence the discomfort level is keeps increasing.
I tell her to develop patience and use this time effectively to enhance her skills by way self study and trying to get some industry certifications.
She says even her boss has been saying the same thing.
That said on our drive back I talk about my challenges and frustrations at my office. Sindhu patiently listens to me and gives me some fresh ideas and suggestions.
This also gives me a perspective of how the "Internet era kids" look at life and challenges we face day in an day out in corporate life. Besides giving some fresh ideas this takes the load of the tension we undergo in Bangalore's famous traffic.
My take on this incident is ( as my good friend Shankar always says!!) that if you treat today's smart kids as adults rather than kids and build the level of trust you could possibly use them as your counselor to listen to our daily woes as well get some "Hatke" ideas
That said on our drive back I talk about my challenges and frustrations at my office. Sindhu patiently listens to me and gives me some fresh ideas and suggestions.
This also gives me a perspective of how the "Internet era kids" look at life and challenges we face day in an day out in corporate life. Besides giving some fresh ideas this takes the load of the tension we undergo in Bangalore's famous traffic.
My take on this incident is ( as my good friend Shankar always says!!) that if you treat today's smart kids as adults rather than kids and build the level of trust you could possibly use them as your counselor to listen to our daily woes as well get some "Hatke" ideas
Chandar -- I 200% agree with you, there are lot of learnings we can have from this generation children and absolutely we need to be open about it.
ReplyDeleteone such example is what I have described in http://agdurai.blogspot.com/2010/09/role-reversal.html