in 2010 I Gate Crashed the junior college interview of a government college in my city...I was very tired of my full time stint in a pvt college near my house and was desperate for a break...specially because I was sick of having to be Loud and Vociferous for every little thing I wanted in that pvt college....need to attend a seminar ...beg beg beg ....need a sick leave ....beg beg beg ....need earned leave ...beg a whole lot ....plus the Politics and the way I was reacting to it was shocking me ...I hated having to argue and fight for Simple Things ....I felt I was morphing into a Ogre ...usually I never talk much in the work place nor do I raise my voice against seniors ....I had Never done that till that stint in the pvt college near my house and wanted to Change ...and get more time with my kids and also learn a bit too ...or else how could I improve as a faculty ......if I was not spending any time to learn .....
ergo when I came to know a govt college in my city was holding junior college faculty interviews ....I thought it was the Best Way to go meet 'a panel conducting interviews' and...request ...tell them...beg ...plead ...and convince them that I needed a break with them ....in May 2010 I had gone and met the principal of the college and had submitted my CV ...it had come to nothing ...ergo meeting a Panel Interviewing was important ....
today I want to talk about the young lady who I met in 2010....during that interview... she was the faculty for accounts in a pvt junior college at some distance from my house in a mofussil area .... I was sitting at the back of the room and she was sitting on a bench adjacent to me ....we were asked to wait in a classroom .... I had done my junior college in that college and was feeling so very nostalgic sitting there ....and reminiscing
soon we were talking about stuff and then got to discussing about our profession ....teaching...when I heard her story .... I forgot how frustrated and sad I was with my current post in the pvt college near my house .... her story moved me to tears at how Tragic is the Plight of Dedicated and Qualified faculty in India
she told me how she was working in a small pvt college and when she told me her payscale and how she had to sign for a particular amount on paper and in Reality ...got less than what a kindergarten teacher or even a house help gets on a monthly basis .... I was so upset...a young lady who is qualified and is a Post Graduate and has a B.Ed. ie a bachelor degree in Education .... is earning a pittance for her sincere services as she told me a little about all the work she does in a day in that college .....
she told me that people like me stood a greater chance of getting into the govt college we were applying to and I was Shell Shocked ...she being a Maharashtrian it was so Tragic hearing her be so dejected and defeated and sad ...
here is the son of the soil issue turned on it's head ....Impossible ...totally Out of Character too
and I a Mallu born and brought up in Pune decided to tell her ....Why she has a better chance at getting a job in a Govt College in Maharashtra ...plus I told her to apply for the Marathi Medium divisions ...plus I gave her a Pep Talk on my Visualisation Technique and to believe in what she wanted ....
I shared how I was on a leave from my work place and was Happily gate crashing the junior college interview ....and did not even know IF there was a vacancy for Senior College and how I had been informed I would have to be the last one to be interviewed that day .... I said I would Not take No for an answer either ....if not this college ...I would apply to some other Govt college ...
she was totally astounded by how Krazy I was sounding and we giggled about it ... LOL ...most people thought I was Daft to be leaving the Biggest Name in Education in my city and opting for a lower paying post ...
then she told me about her infant and her mother in law woes ....plus she seemed not to be ready to understand that her subject had soooooooo much more scope than mine ....
I told her about cram classes for accounts and that they would pay her more than most colleges and that she could start her own classes in the future ....there is a Huge Fear Factor for Accounts as a subject in my city .....95% of the college students take personal coaching over and above attending lectures in college for this one subject.. Accounts ....
I also tried to encourage her to get into undergraduate teaching as she had finished her PG and had some experience ...I told her the amount of preparation for class would be something she could handle ...however she did not want to change her level as her baby was not yet a year old and she wanted to give the mother in law a break as ...her relation with her was souring due to her work and practically 'no pay' situation
I also told her about the husband being an HR personnel and the constant need for accountants in Retail ....the only drawback being the working hours ...however pay scales and promotions and increments were much better in the corporate set up ....that is when she sat up and took notice ....I gave her the husband's visiting card with my signature on the back and told her to go try her luck...her husband too was working as an accountant in some small firm and was not making much money...
it was soooo very upsetting to know How much money.... the people running that small pvt college were making ....thanks to such innocent young faculty ....imagine making her sign on paper for X amount and then paying her X-10% ....not even peanuts that poor girl was making ...and junior college faculty have 4 times the amount of tests papers to correct in a year ...as compared to degree college faculty ...so imagine ...so much work and practically No payment ....Tragic it was
after some time my colleagues from the pvt college I was working in reached the venue of the interview ...and I was very keen to know details of how my absence was taken that day....as I had got a nice little verbal showdown over the phone when I had requested for leave the previous day .... and specially....I was very keen to know what Excuse my friends had dished out to 'Leave Early' a very big Taboo subject in that Draconian pvt college ...
all 3 of us colleagues from the pvt college Enjoyed our interview... and I got a very warm reception to my Pitch to quit the pvt college and join that govt college ....
I am and will always be very gratefull for that stint in the govt college .... no matter what my issues and what my rants ....working in govt colleges is any day more peacefull than working aka kung fu-ing in a pvt college...
once I reached home that day ....I Implored the husband to help that faculty of accounts and her hubby ...if they approached him with that visiting card with my signature ... I kept thinking about that young faculty and her problems for a long time and shared her plight ...and how sad life is for faculty in smaller colleges with All ....
a few weeks later when I joined the said govt college .... the husband told me about a couple who met him for openings in the accounts department and I was glad that ....that young mother had decided to walk out of a Highly Exploitative situation .... I never met her after that day and since we had not exchanged numbers .... we never communicated ....
however ...whenever I felt Frustrated ...I thought of that young teacher and her problems ....
my problems would seem so much simpler and a year later I found a website called iWriter and realised How Happy I was Ghost Writing Content .... those days of Only academic writing ...were ones where... I Loathed putting my name down on anything I wrote and being sent anywhere ....I was not happy with Even my papers that were published and I dreaded seeing my name in Print Anywhere....LOL LOL LOL
cut to 2012 May ...I was bored out of my wits in Bahrain and started posting comments on FB and then my elder kid started my blog for me..... and first... there was very controlled kind of writing .... then I found some authors on FB and slowly my style of writing changed ......I got more and more Vociferous in my writing and now have no qualms about any of the stuff I put down ....no grammar ...no sense of form, structure, content, ...no this nor that ...no nothing ....I put them words down ... and I am ....
dunno if it is ..good.. bad or ugly ...
however I love the fact that Blogging is Not a Literary venture of any kind ...or so I hope and believe ...ergo till as long as I can .... I will be.. Not bothered about the Form, Structure, Voice and tone and so many other angles ...students of Literature worry about ....
ergo when I came to know a govt college in my city was holding junior college faculty interviews ....I thought it was the Best Way to go meet 'a panel conducting interviews' and...request ...tell them...beg ...plead ...and convince them that I needed a break with them ....in May 2010 I had gone and met the principal of the college and had submitted my CV ...it had come to nothing ...ergo meeting a Panel Interviewing was important ....
today I want to talk about the young lady who I met in 2010....during that interview... she was the faculty for accounts in a pvt junior college at some distance from my house in a mofussil area .... I was sitting at the back of the room and she was sitting on a bench adjacent to me ....we were asked to wait in a classroom .... I had done my junior college in that college and was feeling so very nostalgic sitting there ....and reminiscing
soon we were talking about stuff and then got to discussing about our profession ....teaching...when I heard her story .... I forgot how frustrated and sad I was with my current post in the pvt college near my house .... her story moved me to tears at how Tragic is the Plight of Dedicated and Qualified faculty in India
she told me how she was working in a small pvt college and when she told me her payscale and how she had to sign for a particular amount on paper and in Reality ...got less than what a kindergarten teacher or even a house help gets on a monthly basis .... I was so upset...a young lady who is qualified and is a Post Graduate and has a B.Ed. ie a bachelor degree in Education .... is earning a pittance for her sincere services as she told me a little about all the work she does in a day in that college .....
she told me that people like me stood a greater chance of getting into the govt college we were applying to and I was Shell Shocked ...she being a Maharashtrian it was so Tragic hearing her be so dejected and defeated and sad ...
here is the son of the soil issue turned on it's head ....Impossible ...totally Out of Character too
and I a Mallu born and brought up in Pune decided to tell her ....Why she has a better chance at getting a job in a Govt College in Maharashtra ...plus I told her to apply for the Marathi Medium divisions ...plus I gave her a Pep Talk on my Visualisation Technique and to believe in what she wanted ....
I shared how I was on a leave from my work place and was Happily gate crashing the junior college interview ....and did not even know IF there was a vacancy for Senior College and how I had been informed I would have to be the last one to be interviewed that day .... I said I would Not take No for an answer either ....if not this college ...I would apply to some other Govt college ...
she was totally astounded by how Krazy I was sounding and we giggled about it ... LOL ...most people thought I was Daft to be leaving the Biggest Name in Education in my city and opting for a lower paying post ...
then she told me about her infant and her mother in law woes ....plus she seemed not to be ready to understand that her subject had soooooooo much more scope than mine ....
I told her about cram classes for accounts and that they would pay her more than most colleges and that she could start her own classes in the future ....there is a Huge Fear Factor for Accounts as a subject in my city .....95% of the college students take personal coaching over and above attending lectures in college for this one subject.. Accounts ....
I also tried to encourage her to get into undergraduate teaching as she had finished her PG and had some experience ...I told her the amount of preparation for class would be something she could handle ...however she did not want to change her level as her baby was not yet a year old and she wanted to give the mother in law a break as ...her relation with her was souring due to her work and practically 'no pay' situation
I also told her about the husband being an HR personnel and the constant need for accountants in Retail ....the only drawback being the working hours ...however pay scales and promotions and increments were much better in the corporate set up ....that is when she sat up and took notice ....I gave her the husband's visiting card with my signature on the back and told her to go try her luck...her husband too was working as an accountant in some small firm and was not making much money...
it was soooo very upsetting to know How much money.... the people running that small pvt college were making ....thanks to such innocent young faculty ....imagine making her sign on paper for X amount and then paying her X-10% ....not even peanuts that poor girl was making ...and junior college faculty have 4 times the amount of tests papers to correct in a year ...as compared to degree college faculty ...so imagine ...so much work and practically No payment ....Tragic it was
after some time my colleagues from the pvt college I was working in reached the venue of the interview ...and I was very keen to know details of how my absence was taken that day....as I had got a nice little verbal showdown over the phone when I had requested for leave the previous day .... and specially....I was very keen to know what Excuse my friends had dished out to 'Leave Early' a very big Taboo subject in that Draconian pvt college ...
all 3 of us colleagues from the pvt college Enjoyed our interview... and I got a very warm reception to my Pitch to quit the pvt college and join that govt college ....
I am and will always be very gratefull for that stint in the govt college .... no matter what my issues and what my rants ....working in govt colleges is any day more peacefull than working aka kung fu-ing in a pvt college...
once I reached home that day ....I Implored the husband to help that faculty of accounts and her hubby ...if they approached him with that visiting card with my signature ... I kept thinking about that young faculty and her problems for a long time and shared her plight ...and how sad life is for faculty in smaller colleges with All ....
a few weeks later when I joined the said govt college .... the husband told me about a couple who met him for openings in the accounts department and I was glad that ....that young mother had decided to walk out of a Highly Exploitative situation .... I never met her after that day and since we had not exchanged numbers .... we never communicated ....
however ...whenever I felt Frustrated ...I thought of that young teacher and her problems ....
my problems would seem so much simpler and a year later I found a website called iWriter and realised How Happy I was Ghost Writing Content .... those days of Only academic writing ...were ones where... I Loathed putting my name down on anything I wrote and being sent anywhere ....I was not happy with Even my papers that were published and I dreaded seeing my name in Print Anywhere....LOL LOL LOL
cut to 2012 May ...I was bored out of my wits in Bahrain and started posting comments on FB and then my elder kid started my blog for me..... and first... there was very controlled kind of writing .... then I found some authors on FB and slowly my style of writing changed ......I got more and more Vociferous in my writing and now have no qualms about any of the stuff I put down ....no grammar ...no sense of form, structure, content, ...no this nor that ...no nothing ....I put them words down ... and I am ....
dunno if it is ..good.. bad or ugly ...
however I love the fact that Blogging is Not a Literary venture of any kind ...or so I hope and believe ...ergo till as long as I can .... I will be.. Not bothered about the Form, Structure, Voice and tone and so many other angles ...students of Literature worry about ....
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