Why I love my current job

There’s a scene in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ where Sam suddenly stops in the middle of a field and exclaims, “This is it.” When Frodo asks him what it is that has made Sam pause in his tracks, he says, “One step more and I’ll never have been further away from home.” Frodo kindly smiles at his trusted friend, and eggs him on with words of encouragement.

The best part about having the work profile that I have currently is that I am in Sam’s shoes almost every second day. I remember thinking this way when I took the flight to Delhi and now, when I’m in Calcutta and have to explore the fringe parts of this city, I look back at each day as a day when I’ve explored some new land, met some new people, interacted with people with experiences different from my own, and have shared cultures slightly different from the ones which I’ve observed since my childhood. It is as if I visit a new world every third day.

Marketing rocks! No offence to people who slog away in cubicles, but I would much rather have it this way than any other way.