The Intern Diaries

Hello again. 9:43 am Friday, June 24, 2011. I once read an article which started with a phrase “Friday, Thanks God” I don’t understand why would a mature person write such stupid thing. The quote may apply to college students at the most but when you are working like doing a job it doesn’t apply to you at all. When you have to sit in your office till 6 and then come on Saturday as well and sit till 6 i.e. no half day at all, seriously dude you should have done some major sins in your previous life that’s what you are punished for, don’t be thankful to anyone.

I finally changed that already dying chair (I was afraid if I’d sit on it for one more day it would definitely die and its ghost will haunt me because I was responsible for its death). And I changed my mouse, it feels so great to have a mouse whose all the buttons are working perfectly and even the scroll button is fully functional. 

It is absolutely not normal if you sleep at 11 pm wake up at 8 and still feel sleepy just when you are about to start your work. I actually searched for any medication which helps in reducing the sleep; turns out they all increase sleep and cause dizziness. People say there is only one thing which can reduce your sleep and that is fall in love find a bachi who texts who at 3 am and if you don’t reply her she gets upset and when gets upset you also get upset and cant sleep because you are upset. i tired thing like exams worries even result worries but nothing worked when I am sleepy nothing can stop me.

To be honest I also tried that bachi thing once and even it didn’t work out very well the bachi got used to the fact that this guys cant stay up after 12 and I think she found someone else who could stay up 24 hours :D

I have learnt one thing over the past. Bad decisions earn you two things one is experience and the other is good stories. If you get a call at 9 am on a vacation morning and the person on the line says “have you forgotten it is your joining day for the internship” you forget to say anything and reply “sir I am on my my way coming asap” . now if you look again the whole scenario , where was the thinking process where was the negotiations process. It was just an instant reply and had nothing to do with your thinking and decision making capabilities. So now that is earning me two thing. The experience which I am gonna put in my CV and the stories which I my or may not put in my blog.

I am quite pissed off right now. Either you can do work on Pro E and give all your concentration to the model what you are making, or you can reserve half of your mind memory just to remind you that you have to save your work every 5 minutes.  Damn it I didn’t save it for once. :@

It took me almost 3 days to practice that I have to save my daily report 5 minutes before every hour. Now it is gonna take me another 3 days to practice that I also have to save my pro E work every 5 minutes before the power goes out…….. I swear this is so upsetting I don’t feel like doing all that work all over again =/

Nevertheless it was fun doing some work after all. And yes time also passes quickly when you are doing work with some real concentration not like typing some random crap which is of no use to anyone. And you have to wait for hours before words come to your mind that you approve to put in your report :-/

I agree that there are always legal ways to do illegal things but it always leave a loop hole in it. For example you convert a pdf file to a word file and you get to know that all the graphics have gone insane. Or you convert the JPEG of your mark sheet to a xls file you come to know that all the names are mixed up badly. So when you try to access facebook through some lame proxy server you find that you can only see whats happening there neither can you chat nor you can comment or post anything. This is how it works.

Its been a busy day so far. Just came back after juma prayer and lunch break. Now getting ready for the upcoming presentation (if it happens today). Surprisingly I left my computer open when I left and now after more than one and a half hour it is still working…. NO POWER FAILURE for almost 2 HOURS …… 

 Imagine how busy I have been that I just have written 830 words so far :P

And yes I made that project model again right form the start with ctrl + s

After every 16 seconds.

Meanwhile I was just thinking that I didn’t mention how many days are remaining here. So just 19 more days left and then there would be a post on my wall. I left my job here as a internee :D

Finally the presentation did happen. Not as good as expected but still I did a good, the supervisor’s comments felt awesome. J

The big boss wasn’t very happy though, but who cares :D

And now we got like hell lot of more assignments. The most awesome news for today is that we got one week training in our school for software….. OMG I am sooooo happy J

That means next week would be even busier and another presentation at the end of next week =/

Facebook is now on, LEGALLY….. and the time starting to pass nicely….. so far so good. During the interaction with other people I noticed one more thing; unlike my perception engineers are much cool people. They don’t wear formal like marketing people. They don’t give a crap to their bosses as well, they listen music not on head phones but on the speaker which booms the whole room (without even thinking it would be a little awkward if the boss comes) their laptops are much more older and rusty looking than the laptops of marketing people. And yes they also don’t know most of the things (technical things of course) except those which they are working on, and yes they are not ashamed of this as well. Marketing people, well yes even here you can tell by the dress that the person is from marketing dept. or technical dept.

The hydraulic lever of my chair is not working. And yes this is not irrelevant to mention here, because it also one of those all meaningless useless and random things that I write here. You should get used to buy what I am selling ;)

ETA 23 minutes and counting. In this busy world people don’t have time to read thing and still there are people who write looooong moral-less, meaningless, lame, and story-less stories. I wonder who are these people what do they think about themselves. Are they too free ?? They have nothing to do??

Never mind they are people like me and you, I think they have the mind which they don’t want to spend on small things, they are the future philosophers. They actually feel they are not born to do the things which they are forced to do. They are just ordinary people with extraordinary thinking power (it is a separate debate that they can never convert their thinking to practical form but most of the philosophers were like this :P )

The stories never end, words continue to come and the times goes on. These small stories make our lives, some people just don’t consider it worthy enough to save these happenings ( and yes they all have the time to do it ). This time wont come back, just the memories would remain written material would might serve even better if you cant remember all the things. So here it comes it time for me to go. I’ll see you guys if I get SOME SPARE time to write some lame material.

Adios J

2nd day at work

It is 10:24 and I am tired already….. I seriously cant understand what is the purpose of internship when you don’t learn anything, even you don’t get to see all the things ….

The only thing that I am getting too know is the office atmosphere… arrive at 9 in the morning do work till break (by work I mean sit in your cabin turn on the A.C switch on your computer and when you find facebook and youtube blocked by the server, do some stupid writing on Word like I am doing it now) come back after break and start working again till someone says its off time…….

There is one more thing that I came to know about and that is you don’t get any homework when you are working at an office, all the assignments assigned are supposed to do during your work hours so never ever bother to disturb your time at home for your office jobs. If you do so you would also be doing the same what I am doing.

Nevertheless it is fun to sit all day long and do no work but the matter of fact is that a man is never happy with what he gets. If I was sitting at home and sleeping all day or maybe facebooking all day, that too would have become uncomfortable for me…… on contrary I am sitting in my cabin and doing what you can imagine and can also imagine how interesting this work is ……..

During my last 14 years of education, I did notice one thing very particularly. I might not be a regular school changer (did my whole school at one place whole high school at one place and yes of course doing college from one place as well). Every place you go, you always find first few days hard and maybe cruel at times. You don’t know all the people there you don’t know what to do next and you always keep on counting number of days remaining there (that reminds me that I just have to work 22 more days here :D ) but every time when you are about to leave that place the tables are turned and I don’t know why but you don’t feel like leaving that place anymore. Don’t know why but it happens.

Certainly it is not happening here right now.

However there are also some good parts as well. All the people know that you are doing some serious research work maybe working on a million dollar project or assisting in making some rocket while you are just getting hold on your nerves in the hope that at the end you will get just enough money to have a one little party maybe.

There is one strange thing also. Rest of the days most of my gmail accounts did appear online even during vacations and even early in the morning but I don’t know what has happened to them they don’t come online even till mid-day and damn, right now it is the only chat available to me ……….  

I forgot to mention that I am not the only one doing a lot of value adding work, one of the internee is using omegle (talk to strangers) and the other one brought his laptop and headphones and listening to I don’t know some kinda weid music…..

Even after what I said all above, no one is supposed to think that doing job is easy, the pressure of your bosses in order to PRETEND that you are working is enough to keep you busy.

I did write few more lines but the power went out and I cant remember what did I write, and I am not gonna put the blame on WAPDA cuz when you work in some bloody Multinational you expect them not only to have backup generators but also ups with each computer to save the MIGHTY IMPROTANT work in case the power goes out.

Okay just right when I ran out of things to write, another miracle just happened. I JUST GOT THE FIRST TEA FROM OFFICE. Even though I am not a big fan of tea but believe me the first tea you get at work has a unique taste and no I am not talking about too much sugar in the tea. :P

Yesterday the Col. Sahib told us that at the end of this internship we will submit a report of what we learnt and what did during these 4 weeks. Looking at the whole page I just wrote, I must say that I am doing a great job :D

About that presentation that I was supposed to make today in office but I already made that at home (so efficient of me) I just hope that these people don’t expect me to memorize the stuff  and it wont be like a semester project presentation or a viva sorta thing.

11:57 still working :/

All this presentation stuff is usually meant for marketing people, but they say that presenting technical descriptions is engineer’s job. I only could figure out one thing out of this and that is your boss is always right whenever you feel he is not, read the first rule again.

Btw I hate using this MS Word 2003, disgusting…..  

Here I am once again, 3:50 pm. Now this is the time I would have definitely been sleeping if I was at home and here what am I doing, SLEEPING. Just took a power nap of like 15 mins and then back again WORKING. Thank God they served the tea again, now I understand why tea is a must for people who work in office. So by now I actually made the necessary changes to the presentation, even prepared a bit about what I have to say. And now thinking just 2 hours left and then again I will have some time free to take some fresh air. So task for today is to update the library of my ipod as I am gonna need it desperately here, maybe put some audio book in it and coke studios new episodes for sure.

These long pauses when you put your left hand under your chin with your elbows on the table and still thinking what to write next reminds of the awkward silences which occure when you talk to your  Ex like after a decade maybe. Nothing to say always wanting something to listen still nervous.

Dear old style fat ass monitor thank you for your weird flickers each time I get a text, I swear when it is on silent within its cover it won’t let me know otherwise.

I seriously feel like watching some kinda actual stuff happening in industry. Sitting in the head office just watching the CAD models or WAX prototypes at the most is certainly not enough. Btw I think that 3D printing seems really cool thing, imagine 3D things coming out of your printer :O

Usually in most of the offices 4:30 is the the time when you save all your IMPORTANT WORK and start preparing to leave, here the situation is a bit different. These dedicated people work till 6 since it is June and long days mean long working hours (ddnt made any sense to me at first but then I read the rule number one again and I got that boss  is always right :P ) so I am not at all thinking of saving my precious work.

I certainly know one thing with 100% confidence that when I’ll be in industry I’m gonna miss this time but till now I have completely failed to understand that why do people prefer desk jobs over industrial jobs, people spend 4 years doing a bachelor engineering and then they spend 2 more years doing MBA just to get an office job doesn’t makes any sense to me at least.

 ETA 54 minutes and counting……..

Stratsys website not working, gmail chat not working, even my mind has stopped working…….

Sorry was busy with some IMPORTANT people…. :D

So now its like 26 minutes still remaining and I am starting to wrap up the things gmail chat started working but not that stratsys website. 

Hang on dude just 15 more minutes just 15 minutes and then you will be one free bird in the sky….. it reminds me even school didnt feel this much confined and I am like stuck in some jail in the middle of pacific where there is no way out and most importantly nothing to do

So here it is…. Time to go, was a busy day indeed…. See you tomorrow

Adios