With sweat pouring like there is a shower over my head, and the fan above waits for electricity to give it a new leash of life, life here at 40+ degree Celsius Jamshedpur is tasking. Not to mention, getting second thoughts of doing my SIP here itself and add to that one in Sales!! Or as my mentor puts it, hardcore sales!!!
A lot is happening around here, of course along with it, my paseena flowing like some waterfall!! And sad part is, at the end of it all, I won’t even be able to use the phrase, “paseene ki kamai” because there won’t be any kamai of sorts as well. Poor me 🙁
The only respite is being at my hometown!! But then, apart from that there is none. It is that time of the year when none of my friends are here. After all, who stays in Jampot, during May-June when its no less than a heater with loo giving it company. Even I have never stayed here around this time here, from the time I can recall. It used to be the days of Summer Vacation at my Naani’s place along the shores of Bay-of-Bengal in Gopalpur!! Childhoods’ most treasured vacation along with my cousins!!! Sigh!!

And today, here I am. In the captivity of my home, refusing to go out even for a second!! Even to the extent that a friends’ invite to barge in the nearby theater for a movie seemed tasking!! That too on a Sunday!! And this is so not me!! This is the summer heat, coupled with the never-ever-done-work-of-sales as part of my Internship talking its head out.
To talk about, #YehSaaliInternship, by which my SIP shall be named henceforth, It would be wrong to say I wasn’t expecting something like this. But going by my previous records of things rarely meeting my expectations, you have certainly disappointed me. Yes, you Saali Internship!!
Apart from the usual struggle to try and convince people into buying our products, there are quite a few other things I am being subjected to. To jot down a few, it includes, asking questions that they don’t feel like answering, to weird looks and crazy questions they put on you, to trying to be extra-nice to colleagues and bosses, to actually gulping in liters of cold drinks just to be able to move around from one place to another as if in the middle of a computer game where an energy drink will help me clear the next level and of course trying to be patient, so much that even though someone makes you wait in the scorching sun, a “hello with a token smile” is a must!!
There are positives to look forward to as well, with watching myself actually learn something practical under good guidance. Yes, not all bosses are bad and mine certainly is not at all. At least if I am judging correctly in a matter of very few days. Where these “few days” have seemed like eternity.
Coming back to this “Summer Internship”, makes me wonder as to why on earth they had to be in summer? Why not in winters, huh??
And for XIMEans like us, who are back from an amazing International tour, to do this just after that was actually on hindsight like bakre ko halal karne se pehle wali feeling, of which we just forgot in the midst of the fun over there.
Anyway, there’s no point complaining too much (I’ve done whatever I could), just to focus on the job at hand with of course a smile and a promise that in future would always treat salespersons very politely.
Happy Internship!! 