The beginning!

My blog was initially going to be titled just ' Confessions of a Workaholic' - the genesis of this being the countless nutty things i encounter daily at a place i spend maximum of my time at i.e work! My friends encouraged me to do this as I apparently have a funny take on everything so here goes. I sit here at the client place awaiting the arrival of my difficult to track down manager ,herin referred to as PT and I am just plain bored. Hence, the revision to the title.
This blog is not intellectual, it is just a fun place for me to list down what I feel. Notice the emphasis on what I feel, so really if you enjoy reading this - its just a generous add on.
A little background on what I do- I am a Chartered Accountant and a total misfit in this highly sterotyped profession. But there is this highly inspiring quote I read somewhere which says- ''Why try to fit in when you are created to stand out?' and its my official mantra hereon.
Typical character attributes of an Accountant:-
1) Boring - Am i ? Heck no!
2) Speak in jargon made infamous by Pranab Mukerjee at the recently concluded Budget session- I consider myself sufficiently aware of most terms but I have to confess I have to keep going back to brush up on repo and reverse repo rates and their impact on the economy. (I like to think of myself as a micro-minded person, who could not care a damn about the macro view as long as I saved tax and made me some money)
3) Consider going for seminars on IFRS as a weekend outing- Never been for one though I am sure my institute has made sure I will in the near future thanks to their compulsory training hours.
4) Looks down upon frivilous talk- I love frivilous talk if u ask me! And I abhor people who can only talk shop even after office hours.
A wise teacher once told me - Chartered Accountants almost always look like oranges who have been peeled off with dried up personalities. Give them Excel and their sunken eyes light up and otherwise good luck getting them to do anything fun!
And thats when I decided- I would never be a dried up orange- I would rather be a big juicy mango, ripe with my gregarious and cheerful demeanour. Not to say, I would not be good at my job- Just that I would also strike a fine balance between being the professional I am expected to and being the crazy unabashed person I am.
Now you would ask how anyone like me would become a workaholic- victim of the system is my answer. Stemming from my basic problem of being sincere and not being able to say no to responsibility- 3.5 years into my profession, its hard to pinpoint that one day I got sucked into the abyss of deadlines, burning the midnight oil to complete reports and deliverables.
And here I am , like the proverbial fly in the soup, sometimes struggling to stay afloat, sometimes comfortably bobbing up and down but never really getting myself to leave everything.
I have to now go order lunch for my manager-PT who has no time to tell me when he's coming for a review but all the time to SMS me what he wants to have for lunch and when..Oh well.....
Until later then
*PGN*