IT’s life!

We all have a dim perception that software engineers are people who wear blue shirts and black pants with Id cards around their necks. Curse these people for introducing the concept of Id cards. They are people who pay more attention to their orkut/facebook profiles than their clothes and their only source of fun are crap forwards and the ultra frequent coffee breaks to the closest expresso machines. One can easily identify these people; with sleves folded upto the elbows, flashing the latest mobiles, lost, confused, with smoke forming a mysterious halo around them and cursing some one all the time (in most cases it’s their manager). Madhur Bandarkar made a movie on fashion industry and claims he had to spend 1 yr formulating the story. It was a good one, really, but am sure that even if he spends the rest of his lifetime searching for a story on IT sector, he can’t make anything more than a 20 minute short film which will be crtitically acclaimed and shunned by the masses.

Will be back to discuss why:

So, the second part…

To begin with,  Computer Science is an altogether different thing compared to coding or rather IT. A simple example is that Computer Science is what Adobe or Google do, product development. In this, if a person has an idea of what he/she wants to implement and say, create a tool, he/she does it. So, creativity, innovation, ideas and all come into the picture thereby making it an interesting thing. Its a universal truth that what ever we create, we will like it  no matter what. So such a thing as a ‘Job’ definitely will be fun. Also,  it comes with so much of independence and absence of Professionalism and formalities. Being an Electronics Engineer myself, if I find it fun, imagine what Comp.  Science Engg’s will feel .

Now, lets come to phase 2: What is IT? Like its brother, Comp. Science, IT, the younger sibbling, is the implementation of the cool things CS guys did. So, the independence/flexibility is gone the very moment they are using what someone else created. It comes with a lot of rules & conditions the creator might have added. So, with arms crippled from the beginning, our IT hero, lets call him Mr. A,  begins a Monday morning trying to solve some requirement with a strict deadline. So, the very word  coding, no matter what the programming language is, will seem a boring & tiring thing. Professionalism forces him to wear shades of blue and grey as you can’t find red & orange formal shirts from Van Heusen & Louis Philippe. The deadlines force him not to celebrate what ever he earns so most of it is spent on the posh flats he lives in & hi-fi mobile phones, its another story that he never spends more than 4-5 hours at this posh flat he pays so much for and neither does he have time to talk or play on the jazzy flashy mobile. He convinced himself that smoking works wonders on headaches to a level our good old Asprin can never reach. So, that explains why you can find him so often at the smoking joints. Don’t commit the mistake of asking what the headache is?  Since ever 1 hour, A cannot afford a 10 minute break (recession folks), he runs to the expresso, hastily presses a button which makes a cup of coffee and wishes his work also finished in such a fashion, with minimal or no defects(the dreaded word, never use that in front of any IT chap else you will send him into a coma). And the cycle continues…. So, what movie can Madhur Bhandarkar make on A’s life?

The job is far better than many others in the world but greed of man wants something better than what he already has, great pay with with no work… well, its not impossible but for that one needs a remarkable intervention of Luck or God. Being the men we are, we want more after that also & as I said before, the cycle continues…………