Most of my working life (six-odd years till date), I have spent working with small-medium outfits. Almost all of these were agencies of some form or another. <\/p>\n
I learnt a lot from my agency experience: I learnt the nuances of “agency life” and came to appreciate the importance of “multi-tasking”. I learnt how to make things happen with limited resources, and picked up skills like Client Servicing and Project Management in the bargain. I have also done my share of staying up nights and working weekends to complete that all-important project, only to discover that the client took a week to find the time to review it! <\/p>\n
Working in an “agency” has its pluses and minuses. Like most things in life. And, as long as the pros outweigh the cons, life goes on. <\/p>\n
But today, I have chosen to go down a new route. I have decided to become “the client”! <\/p>\n
It’s only been a week since I joined my new employer – one of the biggest and most-respected private Insurance companies in India. (I have joined their Alliances and Bancassurance team) And already, it feels like I’ve made the right decision. <\/p>\n
The nature of the work is substantially more interesting. The scale of operations, significantly larger. And, of course, there are the perks that come with a big-brand job… the corporate plan from my mobile provider, the free tickets to plays and movies, etc. etc.<\/p>\n
There are other aspects that have been positively affected too: For starters, I now have peers. (In my last job, I was part of a 20-member team where I was second in command. So there were no peers to share things with. You may not think too much of it, but you miss it when you don’t have it.) Also, after a long long time, people know<\/em> about the company I work for. (Not all my previous employers were consumer brands. So I often had to provide a background with the name.) Plus, there’s the comfort of knowing that you’re part of such a big operation that there will always be things you can try out (in terms of other portfolios), without<\/em> having to leave the organization!<\/p>\n I’m beginning to like it here… I think I could get used to this… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of my working life (six-odd years till date), I have spent working with small-medium outfits. Almost all of these were agencies of some form or another. But today, I have chosen to go down a new route. I have decided to become “the client”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}