Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Job

The simple definition that I could make is ' The instrument to earn money' . So simple!WOW!!! Isn't it? (of course in legal ways..!:))
Very few people get the things that they wished to do!! They know what they want to achieve and they also know the ways to achieve. And at the end of the day they are satisfied with bunch of few other satisfied people. Job is not money for them. Passion drives their job. Job is their passion. And I am not one of those.
Its great that you get paid for whatever you like to do. And when you start getting paid, the job no more remains as your passion. Because you start calculating the worth of the job that you are doing. The mismatch here always causes the conflict and eventually you start loosing interest either in job or passion. All such paid jobs degrade your mind(By Leo Tolstoy). And unfortunately I am one of those.
Look at the artists, entrepreneurs, activists. They are creating new creations and revolutions out of nothing. They have firm cause, motive behind their passion which is not MONEY, certainly. They can never be degraded because they live their passion with their job. Such jobs make real careers.
I am yet to find such job.

Manegerial electronics....... :)

The article is resultant of some electronic components with business principles. Being a electronics grad with some managerial studies, I think there are some commonalities. between electronics and business!
Firstly i would like to elaborate on a process. A process takes some inputs to get some output. That means process does some transformation on inputs to provide resultant output. Now how only inputs are going to transform themselves into output? Not possible...right? So, there has to be some components existing which are acting upon inputs. In business we call these as "Resource" and in electronics we call this as "External Power Supply".
In an amplifier 'process' , the input signal is amplified only because of power supply which provides sufficient voltage and current. The transistors, resisters and capacitors (i.e. electronic components) act as resources without which the power only is not going to get output for us. These electronic components are designed in such a way that input flows in proper way with minimum voltage drops and dissipation. Yes, I am talking about the circuit diagram and component values. Now tell me, isn't it analogous to a business process?
In business, the terms are changed but the functions are not.Consider an example of a manufacturing firm which coverts raw material to finished goods e.g. iron ore to processed steel. Important factors acting upon the raw material are manpower, machines and infrastructure(includes place,power etc).We need money for all this so I am not considering Money as a resource. Without all this, output is impossible. So here also Resources and Material are different from each other as input signal differs from power supply electronic circuits.
From all this at least we can understand now why materials are not asset and why an oscillator works with very small input signal. :)

Time....

Hey, have you ever made Time to follow you.........? Haha....You must be thinking ...'Wat craappp!!! But think over it. We all follow Time. Very few people let Time to follow them. They remain accountable to themselves for the time they spend.
Think of Time as infinitesimal to infinite......! If We follow the time it remains infinitesimal. And when time follows, its an infinte resource.....! We should make use of it.
The article is not about Time Management. You understand it, you implement it. No need to go through books like "Manage your Time". Time is not realizable. We must feel the need, feel the hurry.
Every day I think of al these things and eventually end up in time crisis. For every minute we spend, can we rationalise the expenditure? We should actually. Every yesterday remains useless for every today and every today we waste time to plan tomorrow. And this continues.... Where is the output.....
Every day i think of this and start to utilize time,thinking that..One day I shall make the time to follow me...!

Education system

Since I was in 8th ,9th standard I felt the study is not up to the mark. The subjects were supposed to be mugged up rather than being understood.... Even by 90 % of the teachers. No single teacher asked us to refer some other books related to topics (except languages). Why there were no questions about the opinions to the matter we used to study? In engineering we used to answer short note on ammeter. The same question last year, last to last year..... and so in current year.No change in the form of question and in the form of answer too. How one can expect to learn?
The question should make the student to think on his own on the subject matter. He should make his own interpretations. Let him understand that he has some way to think. That way might be wrong.. but let him know that its wrong. The important thing is he should think. For example how many of us really know what is the diference between new moon day and the lunar eclipse? Very few really....( I had asked many of my friends) . No one really bothers actually. Because the education that we got did not demand us to know all these things in detail. Just mug things up and score. ....you are intelligent then.....!!
So if the system is like this, let us change ourselves. Start thinking and challenging the things. We get interesting anwers and a sigh of satisfaction.......! :)

About being prime....

I have some fascination about prime numbers. Why i dont know. Here goes some observed trend... I hope its consistent enough.
Take a pair of prime numbers such that the difference between them is 2. Now the number between these two prime numbers is always divisible by 6.
The reasoning being......
Facts: There is only one even prime number i.e. 2

1. Such two prime numbers are always odd. And the number in between has to be divisible by 2

2.Lets consider that x and (x+2) are the prime numbers. Now, there are no three consecutive numbers i.e. x, (x+1) and (x+2) out of which none is divisible by 3.
Hence x+1 has to be divisible by 3.

3. Continuing point 2, another observation is: If x is a prime number  where x >=5, then (x+1) or (x-1) is divisible by six.  For instance, 19 is prime and 18 is divisible by 6. 29 is prime and 30 is divisible by 6.