My daily routine at my office

I am writing this about my day to day schedule after joining Infosys Technologies Ltd. Pune DC, that is after I completed my training from Mysore and joined production here. Before reading this post you must read the contents which I have mentioned in the document about “Life at Mysore”. Once you get an overview of how the life was at Mysore and when you read this post you will know the exact difference in two lifestyles.

First of all I would give you a small introduction about how I came into this field. I completed my computer engineering and hence had no more good choice than to join an IT company based on my knowledge. Initially the picture of an IT industry was such, that everyone was attracted towards it. Even the non-computer people would love to get posted to an IT company. The basic reasons why the IT industry was famous were Wealthy salary, relaxed job, 5 day working, and 2 day long weekend. There were many such factors which would make the IT Company stand tall in front of most of the other companies. Even girls used to select an IT professional for marriage based on the salary he had. Now the picture has changed completely. I will talk about that later.
I had asked you to read the Mysore post before this post because there is a drastic change in the lifestyle which I had there(mysore) and which I have right now. Starting of I will tell you about my office timings. My office (official) timings are not official as such. They say that your quarterly average working hours should be 9 hours and 15 minutes. Hence you should be present in the company for at least 9 hours a day. The most common working time would be 9 to 6. in order to make the in time flexible you have to come by your own vehicle, but as I stay at a distance of 35 km from the company there is no other option than the office bus. If you try to come by Bike, then after completing the days work and riding the bike for 35 km and going home, you get completely exhausted and are left with nothing to do that to go to sleep directly. Hence I come by the bus which arrives at my stop at 7:30 am and reach office at 8:30 am.
But it is not always that all people come by 9 and leave at 6. As you are new to the office i.e. you are fresher’s you have to be present at 9 in the morning, but your leads would come to office at 10 or even late. This makes an addition of 1 hour in your daily schedule. Now as the lead would come at 10, then he would go for a breakfast and then return at around 11. Addition of 2 hours to your daily schedule. Then he will assign us some work which would be sufficient for the day(actually more than enough for that day). At 12 PM it will be our lunch time and we go to the food court for our lunch. The food which they serve there is not of great quality, but it is good. Good for health (for developing a good belly, like a pot. You can call it as a pot belly).this is the main reason why you see most of the software engineers with big stomachs (similar to a pregnant woman). They use a lot of baking soda while food preparation which makes you feel full early and inserts a large number of fats into your body. Now I feel like getting Tiffin from home is a must in order to maintain the shape of my belly. My abs have almost disappeared, but now I don’t want to create a bulge there. In addition to that the multiple cups of coffee also help in weight gain.

Everytime you take a break for a coffee or to go to the restroom and you return to your desk, one important activity is pending on your side. That is “Checking of mails”. This is the most important activity in every software engineers daily schedule. I get almost 50 mails daily, among which some are of work and rest all are just for timepass. Initially the mailbox size limit of 50 MB was a major concern for me, but now I have configured my outlook to my email address. With the feature of PST(personal folders) you can store all the mails on your local computer and the mail box size would be as large as the size of your hard disk. Right now my mailbox size has gone to 2 GB. All the data which arrives in my inbox I keep it in the archive and it contains variety folders like Photos, videos, written stuff, inspiring mails, good morning mails, careful mails etc. some of the mails cant be viewed when you are in company. Hence I take this pst to my home and then read it on my home PC in peace.

After you have had your lunch you will return to your cubicle and try to start with your work. Certainly you would get some doubt for which a clarification is required. For this doubt to get cleared you approach your lead and by that time he too has left for lunch. The work again goes into pending state.then you would not feel like working. I always feel sleepy after having my lunch, because that’s it what we use to do in PLs(preparation leaves during our engineering). Then in order to get rid of the sleep a cup of coffee is must for it. But it is the time when the actual work has to start, but as we are not in the mood the work goes into pending state. We work for some time and then it is time for snacks. Again we go to the food court and put some junk food in our body. Then after returning the work continues. Now reading this you would have come to know that the work assigned is much more. But the actual work done within provided 9 hours is very less. Hence every time we find that we have to slog for more hours. But now this has become a daily routine and we don’t bother about the extra time we have to put in for work.

However there is one option in order to leave home early, it is possible only if you don’t have deadline for your work. Hence the assigned work can be completed in peace early in the morning and then the time pass continues for the day. People always say that you are very productive at mornings. Hence 1 hour study in the morning is equivalent to 2 hour study in the afternoon. But considering the IT field I would say that 1 hour coding in the morning is equivalent to 3 hours coding in the afternoon. Thus if the leads would come early In the morning and assign work early then we would work early in the morning and would go early to home.

Just assume that the above mentioned hypothetical condition of leaving early from office to home is true and I reach home by 7pm everyday. Then I would have registered for a gym someplace near my home and would have continued with my exercise everyday. Then after returning home I would have taken a good bath with hot water and watch Television without any worries. After that I would have taken my dinner with my family and discussed on some of the matters and laughed on some good jokes. Similar to these there are a many wishes in my mind which I feel should come true and I enjoy all the activities which I underwent before coming here. It is not always that this plan comes to reality but if you are lucky enough then certainly you get to enjoy these activities and have a blast.