Rio de Janeiro and the nation of Brazil wins the bid for the 2016 Olympics

A truly historical event for Brazil to win the most prestigious games that dates back centuries. I can almost feel the pride of the nation’s people for winning such a highly-competed bid. However all this fight for hosting an event of this magnitude demands a lot of effort, labour and infrastructure, which all the nations in the world seem to be investing in and taking stock of, not necessarily for conducting events of global-scale but just to fundamentally improve the nations communication networks.
Interestingly last week I had received a chain mail, an old one I’m sure, but one that seemed to have recorded the greatest of engineering feats across the globe. Disappointing would be an understatement for what I felt after skimming through the wonderful edifices that leading and even developing nations have added to their country’s landscape. From the tallest buildings to longest bridges the world around us seems to be on an expansion mode. Even India’s friendly neighbour Pakistan has added a beautiful and awe-inspiring mosque that has won the slot for the biggest in the world. Laudable I’m sure but it certainly would leave any Indian wondering what we’ve been up to all this while?
President Obama was quick to point in multiple occasions the engineering and knowledge might of the Indian sub-continent. We’ve undoubtedly managed to hold more than our fair share in terms of position, wealth, status, talent and well a lot of other things that makes it worthy of being mentioned by international leaders. But why as a nation that churns out more engineers in a year than any other country, not able to add one truly remarkable engineered structure to its landscape?
I’m more than sure this demands some serious thought. Why can’t construction companies draft plans to build something that is not only lucrative but also add more value to our national infrastructural strategies?
We comment and appreciate it when President Obama’s stimulus package strives to create more jobs while improving the already developed nation’s infrastructure but don’t seem to bother much about the deteriorating conditions of ours. Finding new opportunities for growth and evolvement is certainly a prerogative for all of us but then why not work towards finding opportunities that can not have a great impact on our lives but also add to the greater good of our nation?
After all we live here and improving things here can only be good for ourselves too, isn’t it?

Finding Opportunities

Practically all of us work in some way or another. Be it at home, in college (where you work towards getting enlightened in your chosen specialty), or for a social cause or for the most accepted of all at work. Yes, the remuneration varies in denomination, stature, status-quo, emotion, credibility, qualification and many other equally important and unimportant factors.
And while sitting at work wondering why I’m working and what I’m working towards achieving, I just thought why not record in writing my progression and digression from my chosen vocation….
Well, that seems to rhyme well! Anyway, like millions of other people on this planet I work for a living too and yes I’m remunerated quite well in that wonderful, enticing, magical paper that hits my account at the end of every slogged month, ensuring that I have food on the table at the end of the day. It would be a lie if I said that that’s’ all that I manage every month or that’s all I work for. Yes, there are the perks and millions of opportunities that I’m blessed with everyday to learn, unlearn, experience, contemplate, perceive and start all over again.
In the past few years I think I’ve metamorphosed into the ClickJobs' Happy Kumar. Because I’m too much in love with what I do that I just don’t even bother to look beyond my little window. There are a million little and big things that I enjoy and get from each workday. And so I was wondering what about the people who’re not really satisfied and hope to catch hold of that elusive opportunity that practically eludes them everyday…
I have a great job but I’m not too sure that the person sitting right next to me feels the same way about his job. That’s when I got thinking (a rare occurrence) why not start a blog where I’m hoping a lot of like-minded and far-more enlightened people can share their opinion about their experiences at work. Or even help people like me look beyond our chosen paths and maybe help find the perfect opportunity. I know it’s always there somewhere, right in front of our eyes but we rarely notice it…
So here am I, the Career Window, opening up my little window for the very first time, almost in rapturous joy waiting to take a peek at what I will find beyond the window to opportunities that I’ve just opened.