Have I Become An Adult?
I realized today, while there were 25 Indian programmers asking me to be in a photo with them, that people seem to think I’m somebody. This trip to India is the first time I’ve ever really been the big guy in the meeting. It’s been weird interviewing potential employees for jobs, and meeting with companies and being introduced as the boss. Suddenly I’m the decision maker in the situation.
The weirder part to me is that although I’m pretty nervous at first to go into this kind of thing, I end up completely taking control of the situation and everything seems to workout well. Today I basically took charge of this meeting evaluating our new website with the head programmers working on it and found over 20 items they need to fix.
What’s my level of education in web design? I took an HTML class in highschool.
Despite all this I really love what I’m doing right now, getting to meet new people and interact with different cultures is awesome. Its refreshing to see how other people work and live and seeing how I can work together with them to leverage how I get things done and how much it costs me. If I continue down this road I see myself as being some kind of expert outsourcer.
It’s funny because so many people are terrified of outsourcing or even traveling to other countries to do the type of thing I’m doing. I absolutely love it, there’s so much to learn about people just by asking them questions about what kind of food they eat, and how they live each day. I feel like this trip has helped me to understand Bala so much better and I think it will really allow me and my work to improve leaps and bounds as a result of that understanding.
At the same time as soon as I’m done with meetings like this I revert back to my little kid jokes with clouse or whoever on AIM or facebook. I’ve even caught myself on facebook in very important meetings while someone is trying to come up with something to show me. Yeah, I’m a professional, except for the way I dress and secretely talking on AIM and facebook when I shouldn’t be.
Indian SEO Sign
And... The Entrance
Hey maybe if you could all keep up I wouldn’t have time to screw around?
