State of Affairs!

Friday, February 5, 2016

This happens!

So this happened. One man making fun of the fact, and other men and women indulging in the fun. While we are not sure if any of them felt that something is wrong here at the back of their mind.

Sad truth, but let's face it. How many of us, men and women even care about changing the scenario?

Most of us, as engineers, will continue to
1. Get placed in TCS, Infosys.
2. Will change company, get a better salary, promotion or the choice of domain.
3. A percent of us will go for a Masters degree.
4. Eventually, most of us will get married. Then the work force changes.

The wife would quit her job because the husband or the family doesn't want her to work.
The wife would quit her job because the she has to move to another city. They might end up getting a job in the other city, but the wife leaves the job.
The wife would quit her job because the kid needs attention.
The wife would quit her job because she cannot strike the work-life balance.
The wife would quit her job because she needs to lead the family.
The wife won't opt for promotion because she cannot have rigorous work hours or she cannot relocate.
The wife being demeaned for being financially independent. Demeaned further if she earns more than the husband.

It's 2016, but most of us have examples of people who fit into these situations. If not, then you haven't looked around enough.

What are most of us doing about it apart from making jokes on it? Neither ladies nor the gentlemen are helping to change the scenario.

The women and men both, continue to accept the fact that only women are responsible for a successful household.

The reality is that girls are acing their classes in High School, Engineering, Medicine, Law and any other industry. Later, they are opting for easy work hours or opting out of the jobs completely to run the household.

Equality is not just limited to women becoming Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, Entrepreneurs but they staying in the business just like men do, even after having children. And this becomes possible when men participate in the household as much as women**.

I do not deny the fact that men today have started to be participative in the household, but we are far from gender equilibrium. For that to happen, men have to take up responsibilities and women have to delegate responsibilities.

It's as basic for men to babysit, cook, wash, clean as it is for women. Along with it, it is also basic for women to go for business trips, work late, fix a bulb or tap. It might seem odd in the beginning, but remember it was also odd when women joined the work force, or in fact when they started voting.

PS - Women, please don't ask for equality on basis of reservations. And men, please check this - www.heforshe.org

Monday, August 25, 2014

Getting Social

You have a new community or startup or a product, whose social media you are supposed to take care of. Here is what you need to get started.

Create Twitter Handle, Facebook Page, Google+ Page and if any other social media you want to be on. There can be more to YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr and a long list.
To make handling the three basic accounts easy, create an account on Hootsuite or Buffer. There are other products too that can do this for you.

The basic rule of getting started is "Post at least 10-15 times, when you are new. Get attention."

Twitter :

Weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) have seen most active participation. Stats say 17% higher engagement.
Images are twice more engaging than just words.
Tweets with less than 100 characters, catch more attention.
Tweets with links, catch attention.
Use Hashtags. Keep it to maximum 3.
#Too #many #hashtags #are #risky
If you need or want to get retweets, mention that.
Writing RT gets RTs. Writing "Retweet" gets even more RTs.
Avoid tweeting during office hours. Use commute hours, general lunch hours or post dinner.

Facebook :

Images in general get a lot of attention.
Use short posts to get your posts to be read.
Emoticons makes things personal.
Ask questions to involve the audience.
Questions asked be like, effectiveness in decreasing order :

Should
Would
Which
Who
When
What
Where
Why
How

In case of Facebook, Thursday and Friday see a good activity.
Contests and incentives based on contests get the users to interact.

If you plan to learn more about using Social Media, a personal recommendation would be to follow the Hootsuite and Buffer blog.

Also Tumblr is a very good platform

Me? I am most social @DhatriMisra

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Will this get me "Taken" in a job I apply for?

That's how a desperate fresher (here Liam Neeson) would ask for a job.

I know who you are. I know what you want.

If you're looking for an expert, I can tell you I'm not
but what I have a very particular set of skills.

Skills I have required over a very short career.

Skills that make me a mentee for people like you.

If you let my CV be accepted now, that will not be the end.

I will not ask you again, I will not pursue you.

But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and
I will pitch myself again before you.

PS - Please don't kill me for the idiocy this post splashed on you.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Being Curious

People are not exploiting the web enough and better.

Those on web today, most of them if not all, need to understand that "Web is NOT just Facebook"

I have come across such ignorant bunch of engineering students, it makes me feel sad about their situation. Though I had been lucky enough to be associated with something, which provided me with a strong network and good exposure, but without curious attempts from my side, I would not have possibly done as much as I did (though it is minuscule, before where I see myself as).

You need no special talent (if you have it, that's an advantage) to be successful,

Curiosity can do wonders for you too!

Why be Curious?

You find out so many things around you.
You are living in the age of internet, there is so much information to be consumed, how can you let it pass by without noticing it.
What you are being shown by the media is not all true, you need to explore very deep, very far to know the truth, or perhaps the other perspective.
When you know more, you can discuss more, and not sit like a mannequin when it comes to group discussions.
YOU WON'T MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF, WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.
Start being curious, you'll find more points to put in here :)

The unfortunate truth is that You Were Curious Once Upon A Time. That was the first and a very natural emotion you had as a baby. You were Curious about anything and everything, even things which could be dangerous, but that's how you realized they were dangerous.

There is so much to learn, it would sound like an endorsement, but go make a Twitter account, follow some good handles there, consume information.

Join Medium, read great stuff. Don't just watch songs, spoofs, trailers on YouTube, there are channels providing some very interesting videos.

Yes, games like Flappy Bird, Candy Crush are very addictive, but try QuizUp once.

Soon, you'll get the feeling of having more information to be consumed but lesser time. That, IMHO is a positive sign. But be careful, to be spending all that time in productive reading, listening or watching, else many have also been exploited by the web in curiosity of exploiting the web.

Feel free to reach out to me, I would love to share what I know from my little pool of experience. :)

Not knowing is Not Bad, but Not Being Curious to Know What You Don't Know Is!

Friday, March 28, 2014

The List!

I keep finding stuff on Internet everyday. Technical or Not. Some travel destinations, some historical summaries, something very creative crafts I would like to try someday and so many other awesome stuff.

Bookmarks have become so mundane for me, keeping it in Twitter favorites or just as Facebook posts might stand as a possibility of them getting lost in so many favorites and posts, trying this way to make it more interesting. :)

Tech :