Being one of the toughest and challenging phases (of my life) at work which made me to sweat it out for the past 8-9 months (The very fact that life is in braces indicate that my work was [and to an extent it also is] all my Life). This act of survival makes you forget everything. Very much like Arjuna who aimed at the eye of the bird when asked to aim, I had to aim at Survival. The overload for survival in software field is called "slogging" (Yes, This is also the same term used in cricket even for a good shot played by a tailender :-/). I also slogged all day and night, weekday and weekend for most of the period mentioned above. The Problem with Slogging is that once you got into the Chakravyuha of Slogging its a difficult way out of it, just like the way Abhimanyu was trapped.
In the past as I was deeply trapped, it was me who was pushing all the 'boys' to work in the weekends. Bad I know, but I still used to ask for weekend progress on Monday. Though there was a inner struggle in me to stop this abuse of myself and others it was tough for me all this while. However after 8-9 months of struggle for survival I just broke the habit of working in the weekends. Now I not only resist but also suppress such 'temptation' (of Slogging) from fellow teammate. I have also gone so far that I try to make sure that we leave office before 7 PM in weekdays (yes, don't look great but trust me it is considering the fact that it was the earliest time we used to leave). Well I was clueless on what prompted this change (actually there are lot of people who are clueless about this change in me). I kept on asking myself on what might be the reason and after few days a thought said to me ..
May be, Just may be you might have realised that ..
"After all I just Own my Job, not the Company.."
