Two days back, we (Shashank, Tarun and myself) were discussing career options and work life balance post MBA. Like any other day, Shashank is in high spirits with a Fosters in his hand and Tarun came up with an excellent story he came across.
A child of a high paying parent is deprived of his father’s time and attention. On a day, over breakfast, the conversation goes like this:
Child: Dad, how much do you get paid for an hour?
Father: 5K an hour
Child: Hmmmm …. Can you give me 4K.
Father: What does a kid studying first standard got to do with 4K. blah blah…..
and rushes to office after breakfast. This guy thinks over the conversation during the course of the day and makes up his mind to give 4K to the kid. By the time he returns home, the kid is lying in his bed half sleep. With no intention of waking up the kid, he places four 1000 Rs notes by the side of the kid. The kid wakes up and takes a 1000 INR which he had collected from long back and gives 5K to his father and asks him to take out on an evening for an hour. Very moving. Isn’t it ?
The moral of the story is not so difficult to make out. But, the most difficult challenge I guess is to manage work-life balance.
A child of a high paying parent is deprived of his father’s time and attention. On a day, over breakfast, the conversation goes like this:
Child: Dad, how much do you get paid for an hour?
Father: 5K an hour
Child: Hmmmm …. Can you give me 4K.
Father: What does a kid studying first standard got to do with 4K. blah blah…..
and rushes to office after breakfast. This guy thinks over the conversation during the course of the day and makes up his mind to give 4K to the kid. By the time he returns home, the kid is lying in his bed half sleep. With no intention of waking up the kid, he places four 1000 Rs notes by the side of the kid. The kid wakes up and takes a 1000 INR which he had collected from long back and gives 5K to his father and asks him to take out on an evening for an hour. Very moving. Isn’t it ?
The moral of the story is not so difficult to make out. But, the most difficult challenge I guess is to manage work-life balance.
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nice story :)
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