It’s a hard life……

If you’re reading this, theres a 50% chance that you are a software engineer or a management blah-blah.

If you are neither, i love you, i just want you to know that. Also, if you are neither – theres a 100% chance that you know a software engineer or a management blah-blah. This means that you have on more than one occasion sat at a table and nodded along to a conversation invloving the “policies of XYZ Bank”, “Priority Accounts” and of course how they’re aaalll screwing you for your money. All the while you’re wondering what these “policies” and “accounts” are.

It’s terribly sad to watch an IT guy sit with you, his pocket full of cash, and crib about his job. Theres two reasons for that:
1. The IT guy is a nice guy. He deserves to have his pocket full AND be happy with his.
2. He doesn’t deserve to crib about anything. Coz the truth is, he probably wouldn’t survive a single week if he were, say, a scientist.

The thing about being a scientist is, your have no money and therefore no “Priority Account”. You can sleep sound at night knowing that no one is screwing you for your money. The other thing about being a scientist is, under the right circumstances, you can play around with a lot of cutting edge equipment. LITERALLY, play around with it. You learn to laugh, wait patiently and most importantly make the most of what you have.

On a public holiday, when theres no place in a 2 Kilometer radius that serves (affordable) lunch, someone with a “Priority Account” will order a meal from someplace – causing a minor dent in their aforementioned account. A scientist, meanwhile, has already planned for a rainy day such as this. He whips out his bag of rice, cooks it on nothing more than an electric coil on a lab work-bench and orders curry out. What he ends up with is a delicious feast of adi-pidicha choru, sambar, meen-currie, kakka-fry, thairu and achar – all shared over fits of laughter with friends.

Which meal do you prefer?

This one is for scientists and soldiers.