soulofmusic
Active Member
STATUTORY WARNING: This is just for timepass and has no academic value.
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You are happy listening to your 2.1 Creative speakers in a 10x12ft hostel room. They look charming, in their own way, and have your undivided love. You dont mind running them on full throttle every once in a while to remind the hostel mates that you are the one with big boyz. You refute to pay heed to those sheepish maggu's who so benevolently request to reduce the throttle so that they can mug-up for the coming up derivates test. After all monte carlo simulation would make much more sense with highway to hell.
Then you pass-out. Not from life, but from college. In a way from life too. Because now you have to earn your bread and you are not fed for diligently watching movies or playing FIFA for straight 6hours over LAN. You do add a zero to your living space of 120sq, but it somehow doesn't feel spacious enough. You feel the adrenaline rush as your bank credit moves up from zero, though it doesn't stay up long enough. Adrenaline is good. It gives you life. Life which means spending. Spending that makes you wonder how you were living without a earning all this while. You start appreciating ecommerce. You add yourself to ebay fan list. And then embrace to better entrepreneurial ventures that come along - letsbuy, flipkart, amazon and the list keeps growing. You spend hours surfing through these heavens neatly laying down your annual budget/plan for gadgets. The first draft as usual looks absurd and is bound to upset a lot of shareholders - namely your parents. You work hard on it. You comeup with a draft which allocates 30% of your earnings to gadgets, 20% to rent, 20% to educational loan for education you never got, 10% to leave minimum balance in your bank account after using part of it for life's non-essentials like food, clothes, medicines etc. But this too is not going to be sufficient. You are expected to do much better. Otherwise you will have to be ready to explain how inflation could eat away all your earning even when you get 100x of your fathers salary in his first job. You spend hours analyzing your annual plan wondering were to cut, thinking how unreasonable shareholders expectation can be and wondering how far away they are from reality. Then finally, with a sour heart, you manage to hit the magical breakup - 29% for gadgets, 20% on rent, 15% on educational loan (SBI can afford. Its a big bank!) and 8% for non-essentials - leaves you with 8% that will move from your account to your parents account through a standing instruction. Afterall how can you trust yourself with that 8% in your account? With life moving fast and technology faster, if it is not for the standing instruction, who knows which account that 8% will end up. But even after all these major compromises, life is going well and fine. Till one day.
To conti.... unless I am barred for boring fellow HFVians
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You are happy listening to your 2.1 Creative speakers in a 10x12ft hostel room. They look charming, in their own way, and have your undivided love. You dont mind running them on full throttle every once in a while to remind the hostel mates that you are the one with big boyz. You refute to pay heed to those sheepish maggu's who so benevolently request to reduce the throttle so that they can mug-up for the coming up derivates test. After all monte carlo simulation would make much more sense with highway to hell.
Then you pass-out. Not from life, but from college. In a way from life too. Because now you have to earn your bread and you are not fed for diligently watching movies or playing FIFA for straight 6hours over LAN. You do add a zero to your living space of 120sq, but it somehow doesn't feel spacious enough. You feel the adrenaline rush as your bank credit moves up from zero, though it doesn't stay up long enough. Adrenaline is good. It gives you life. Life which means spending. Spending that makes you wonder how you were living without a earning all this while. You start appreciating ecommerce. You add yourself to ebay fan list. And then embrace to better entrepreneurial ventures that come along - letsbuy, flipkart, amazon and the list keeps growing. You spend hours surfing through these heavens neatly laying down your annual budget/plan for gadgets. The first draft as usual looks absurd and is bound to upset a lot of shareholders - namely your parents. You work hard on it. You comeup with a draft which allocates 30% of your earnings to gadgets, 20% to rent, 20% to educational loan for education you never got, 10% to leave minimum balance in your bank account after using part of it for life's non-essentials like food, clothes, medicines etc. But this too is not going to be sufficient. You are expected to do much better. Otherwise you will have to be ready to explain how inflation could eat away all your earning even when you get 100x of your fathers salary in his first job. You spend hours analyzing your annual plan wondering were to cut, thinking how unreasonable shareholders expectation can be and wondering how far away they are from reality. Then finally, with a sour heart, you manage to hit the magical breakup - 29% for gadgets, 20% on rent, 15% on educational loan (SBI can afford. Its a big bank!) and 8% for non-essentials - leaves you with 8% that will move from your account to your parents account through a standing instruction. Afterall how can you trust yourself with that 8% in your account? With life moving fast and technology faster, if it is not for the standing instruction, who knows which account that 8% will end up. But even after all these major compromises, life is going well and fine. Till one day.
To conti.... unless I am barred for boring fellow HFVians
