In a week, I’d have lived through one of the most ‘interesting’ internships of my life. Lest I should be misunderstood, it was a fantastic experience, one full of new learnings about the trade and beyond the trade. My shift began at 6 a.m. and went on till 2 or 3 p.m.
But, clocking 8-9 hours everyday isn’t easy; especially with the dearth of work that internees perpetually face. Here are tips to get you by:
- Have 4 cups of ghastly coffee.
- Add too much sugar to make them bearable, in vain of course.
- Read every newspaper your office subscribes to. Including supplements.
- And Classifieds.
- Have 3 idlis for breakfast. Slowly.
- Hang out in the cafeteria, pretend to be confused over what to eat. Then leave.
- Carry out a significant part of your morning ablutions at the office restroom.
- Fiddle with the sensor taps in the loo, see if you can trick them. Then blow dry your hands.
- Walk to the ‘farthest nearby’ ATM to withdraw cash.
- Talk on the phone for the longest time. Give missed calls to your home phone knowing no one’s home.
- Leave the office building for a cigarette break, even if you don’t smoke.
- Secretly thank Ramadoss for his reforms.
- Then get chatty with other smokers. Kill yourself passive smoking.
- Egg on your colleague to tell you about that rugby club he supported when he was at Leeds.
- Fake the interest, you’ve got nothing better to do anyway.
- Drink water. Take a piss. Loop 7 times.
- Call in JustDial, ask them the price list and availability of voice recorders in Sion, which is not where you live.
- Okay, this is a little tricky, try getting it. Plug in the office headphones into your phone/music player and keep it on the CPU (which is below the desk). Now, pretend that you’re listening to some important work related jazz, while actually enjoying old cartoon tunes: Dexter’s Laboratory,Tom & Jerry, Popeye and Duck Tales!
- Think up such blog posts and type them out on your cell phone. Without the T9 dictionary mode.
The ‘+1’ is where I announce my facebook page with personal URL. You can now find me on facebook simply by typing:www.facebook.com/ajinkya.ad
While reading the papers at office.
Peace!
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