Harry blogging his way…

Story Courtesy Mid-Day

From college to work, from amateur to pro, it’s a sequential timeline.
What happens when you decide to do both? Running to work after lectures, while friends sitting at the bus stop share a smoke?

The aimlessness of college life is a celebrated period, but many students are turning professionals.

Number Cruncher
Harish Talreja, 20, finance
“I finished my Bachelor in Management Studies at HR College this April. And I’ve become permanent at Yahoo! India after working part time with them for two-and-a-half years — that’s all through college. I’m a computer geek. What do you think my aim in life is? To work and learn at Yahoo! is the perfect start. You need some amount of determination to run to work after hours of boring lectures. But you also need a flexible, understanding employer. I was allowed leave for exam weeks. There were times when after college, I would just have two hours to spend at work, out of which half an hour I would be travelling. I could get lazy and decide not to go, but you have to push yourself that extra bit. You learn a lot; I wouldn’t count that over anything else.“

Story writer @ Mid-day.com:- komal.sharma@mid-day.com