My new responsibility
These days I sit in my new office, on the 4th floor of a Nehru place building. Through the big window I can see the milieu of offices around and people rushing around along the pathways. This is the computer business hub of India.
I am here to shoulder two new responsibilities
1. Build up new retail relationships with bookshops and gift stores for my software range.
2. Aggressively promote my technews website (justitbiz.com) and my journal ICN.
This is not going to be an easy charge. When is business an easy charge? But I am glad that finally I am given a job with a great deal of responsibility again after a long time.
Since my dad works at the office I have a greater degree of autonomy here, which delights and terrifies me at the same time. If I am successful at this I will be given better things to do, more responsibility, more trust and even more autonomy. But if I fail the confidence that my family has in me will lower and they will be reluctant to invest money on me, my ideas and my projects. I do not wish to be thought of as incapable.
I am 25, with 7 years of active work experience. Till now my professional life has been a mixed bag of goodies. I've had successes and failures. Luckily my successful projects have worked good enough for us to make my failures seem a lot less significant.
Every time someone succeeds in doing something he gets a greater responsibility. A bigger task to do, with more at stake. This will continue as long as one keeps delivering results, but once the results stop, so do responsibilities.
I have done a lot in the last 7 years. I could have done a lot more in retrospect. I didn't do all that I could have done, but I am learning. I just hope that I can grow better each day at what I do, and what I would like to do, continue to grow and become more capable each day of shouldering greater responsibilities successfully.
Yes, I would like that very much.
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