Engineering until IT came into India was completely *technical*. I have not seen any engineer of my fathers generation doing *only* managerial work. There used to be project managers then too, but they used be part time managers and full time technicians.

With IT boom in India, we got a new breed of managers. IT-Managers or so called PMs, SPMs etc. I am not going get into their job profile or their job description but all I want to say is they were different from previous managers we had seen in *technology* field.

In this setup, natural progression for every developer was to, turn into manager after x years. But there were anomalies in the system all the time. They were always confused..
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My time friend Hari has been asking this question since long time. Hence I chose his question as my first question in Ask Thej.
Hari Asks How is that you manage a big job at Infy and still make it to all adventure and tours abroad. Is there a secret behind this effectiveness and management of time. I would surely like to know.
Hari there are two parts to this question. 1. How do I manage my regular day. 2.How do I get leaves for the travel. My regular week roughly looks something like this.

As you can the amount time I spend in traffic is very less compared other city dwellers. As you can see we spend most of our time either sleeping or working. It becomes very important to enjoy both of these else 2/3 of your life is spent in misery. Read the rest of this entry »

Ask Thej is my new experiment where my blog readers can ask anything and I will try to answer their question (or will direct to somebody). You can ask any question from travel, technology, Java, GPS etc etc. I will try to answer them.I will pick up and answer them in a blog post tagged with Ask Thej. Of course your question and my answer are creative common licensed. Please leave your blog url so I can credit your question. Welcome to the new experiment. Happy asking :)

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