When your efforts pay you the manner you thought of...
“कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥”
I do remind myself above lines all the time. These lines from भगवद गीता - अध्याय २ - पद ४७, enlighten us towards Samarpan, towards dedication for what we do, translating to,
“Your right is to perform your work, but never to the results. Never be motivated by the results of your actions, nor should you be attached to not performing your prescribed duties.”
But while this is said, the universal power that holds all the actions, also ensures that your work pays you off in the manner you really deserve.
Recently L&T concluded its first RISE awards to recognize the efforts of employees towards their unique contribution to their work field. It was a grand award ceremony held virtually (owing to restrictions due to COVID19) and telecasted Live on YouTube.
Awards were given in different categories of various groups of L&T.
This article is not for my award, not for the event. This is written to express that you can do it, no matter how hard it is, if you really want to do it.
I was awarded for “DigiTech of The Year”. My small efforts towards various digital initiatives were recognized by Award committee. I have described these initiatives in my earlier article, titled, small-apps-big-difference Link: http://www.anujjanki.com/articles/small-apps-big-difference/
Various creations are also displayed in “PORTFOLIO” section of this website.
Here, in this article, the journey towards this achievement is narrated.
The work for which recognition was done, was for the apps and portals developed in last years, to assist myself and my team for smooth execution of day to day work.
The story took almost 15 years to nurture by its own. It all began in year 2005-2006 with a need and then slowly began to be my hobby. These were days of my engineering graduation. As a student of Electrical Engineering, software were not the subject or the interest part. That year, we were selected as part of organizing committee of a National level Technical event, which was held at our college every year by the department of Electrical Engineering. We were the volunteer of the event and were assigned the task of marketing and getting participation for the event.
The easiest way was to have a website of the event and to get registration online through a website. The only Problem was, who will make the website for us and how much would it cost. The collection of money from various companies and investors against advertisement was flowing in but was not enough to spend for a website outsourcing.
We had few months before the event but had not raised enough funds to spend for a website.
The other way among us was to do it by ourselves. What we did was that we decided to learn and make it by ourselves. And then started the marathon efforts of learning an entire new thing, away from our Electrical Engineering. Libraries, books, magazines, internet articles and tutorials were the ways adopted. By the dedicated efforts the day came, when we launched our own self made website for the event. It was an achievement to create something unique from the scratch for the first time, out of our domain.
The process dragged me to hidden interest inside me and gave me a new hobby. I started learning more by the interest alongside my regular Electrical Engineering degree.
Days passed and we graduated and separated, but one thing kept us connected, was this nick of interest, which I pampered as my hobby.
I learnt more by self-help, reading books, and by trial and error methods. I still remember the extended efforts that were put for some of the creations.
2) Simulation Presentations
In 2008-2009, I had to commute daily between My home (Ahmedabad) and office (Vadodara) for personal reasons, before settling down in Vadodara. This daily activity took 4 hrs in bus journey to and fro. I took this time to invest in something creative. I started bringing my Laptop and used the time of journey in creating Simulation modules and presentation for the benefit of training to new joinees and inter departmental knowledge sharing. Though it was tough to think and create in the crowd of city bus, the zeel of utilizing all the available time and zest of creating something useful kept me focused. This also taught me that all a bit of time is useful and we should utilize it to the maximum.
The self-learning continued. In year 2013, I got an opportunity to be a part of Crixpert organizing committee, a small group of volunteer who held online game just for fun during IPL days. Earlier to this the game was being played by making teams squad and scoring of the matches with the help of excel sheets. That year we thought of doing it online on a portal kind of thing. Looking at the new challenge, I accepted to give it a try before the event would start.
I had 10-12 days only, to conceptualize, design and launch the portal. I had never done anything to such a level earlier, however the inspiration to do something new kept me encouraged. I remember doing the programming and graphic designing all the nights, after office hours, for these 10 days and the result was our own Crixpert Portal, which gave users a new feel of playing online game. The story continued for next years and in 2018, we had more refined version of the same portal, as EPL. The crux of narration is that, if you decide with commitment to do away with new challenges, nothing can stop you in achieving the same.
4) Professional Apps for use at project executions
As you keep nurturing the hobby, it starts giving you satisfaction and continuous motivation. This motivational path opened the door of new learning by self, was the App development on Android platform. I used this self learning skills to create some of the apps and portals which made my day to day site work and project execution work more smooth.
For the young readers, I would add up here that if you put your soul in the technology, it will nourish you back with beautiful results
So, keep learning, keep innovating and utilize the time to its maximum.
Thank you for reading…
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