lazy…

2 weeks in office without much work has made me way too lazy. i’m now even too lazy to write on one of the many oh-so-interesting-to-write-about topics i came up with last week. too lazy to do anything.

first couple of days of this joblessness, i hoped that someone would give me some work so as to kill boredom. but the kind of work that was given enhanced boredom rather than killing it. right now, i’ve become sooo lazy that i would hate it even if someone would now give me the most interesting piece of work to do. all i want to do is to sit around… be vela… somehow get through the next 2.5 weeks… work can happen after that…

i just had another look at the topics i had listed out… looks like all of them require considerable thought – which i’m not prepared to do at the moment. right now, i’m comfortable sitting at my desk, staring at the monitor, looking as if i’m doing some great work and not waiting for people to give me work… and i’m being paid equivalent to about 8000 rupees a day for doing this….

yeah, coming to better things, after a month and a half of i-banking i don’t seem to be the hardcore capitalist i used to be when i came here (‘capitalist’ is an oft-misused word, so i may not have interpreted it correctly). of course i still believe in free markets, and i think they rock big time, but i don’t believe in the idea of doing something just because you can make money out of it – which i think forms the base of capitalism.

i believe that the investment banks are making an obscene lot of money and paying people like me a lot of money for hardly any work only because of the skewed demand-supply equation. probably if there were a hundred more new investment banks which could enter the market and slash prices, even i-bankers would start earning normal amounts. unfortunately the barriers to entry seem to be too high… (i’m actually using some arbit ‘frameworks’, wow!). maybe it’ll be insightful to do a porter’s analysis of this industry… i’ll probably do it on some day when i am actually willing to think. when i do, i promise you that i’ll write about it… no enthu to type more now…

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