In student life, every student has different imagination of
work in companies, based on their hearing from others. Although most of that
imagination is true but not always, because every company has a different work
culture. After completing 5th semester of MCA, everyone from our class was
ready for 6 months internship in different companies. Me and 5 others from our
class got select for internship program at GlocalEdge Pvt Ltd, Noida for next
6 months.
5th January was the joining date and now we have
completed almost 2 weeks. In this short period, I figured out some basic
difference between college study and work in a company.
In college, we have 5-6 subjects, 2-3 labs, assignments,
tests, exams and then result. We have to suffer from all these phases and at
last we always expect a good result. Now in companies, you don’t have to study
5-6 subjects (specially boring theory subjects), you just need to concentrate
on a particular technology or a project. Here you don’t have books, what you
have is only internet. Just learn and apply.
In college, we don’t study the whole semester and prepare at last moment, but here it’s different. On the very first day our
boss gave us some task and fixed a time limit. Although I had worked on that
technology for my project in college but here we have to work according to
client’s requirement and boss’ expectations. For that we learned some new
frameworks and techniques on which I never had worked before. The thing is, you
can’t deny any task once you get selected.
In college if we complete a single task of our project, we
surely take a long rest before moving to the next one. But in companies, there
is always a next task, waiting for you. If you don’t know how to do that, then learn
it very fast (here fast means few hours not days) and complete it in given time
limit.
In college you learn very slow. Reasons are many, sometimes
you don’t want to learn or it’s not so practical or you don’t get enough time
etc. But in company there is a ring-master for you. He knows how to handle dogs. He
will command and you will jump and by this, you will learn a lot, with increased
pace.
The last difference is not about study or work, it’s about
fun. Never think of that after college. Neither you can stay awake late nights
nor can sleep till afternoon. In college life, you can finish 2-3 movies in a
day but here you will finish 1 movie in 2-3 days. In college lectures, you can
sleep but not here. In college, you can bunk a class if you don’t want to go
but here you have to go “Jhak maar key”.
The only way to make this place interesting is to remember
the sentence by Amir Khan from 3-Idiots, that “Aaj Kuch Naya Sikhne ko Milega”.
If you will go by keeping these words in mind every-day, you won’t get bore and
8-9 hours of work will be an enjoyment for you.