Different aspects of life

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Professional Vs Personal life

Professional Vs Personal life

1. How can one be a professional?
According to marketing and business term, Professional is the one who is paid fairly for her/his expertise and certified qualification preferably obtained from his/her academic background rather than their actual intellectuality, experience and ability acquired.

2. What does professional behavior entail?
Professional behavior in the form of environment can be formed by an individuals-operated firm which is difficult to draw the line as employees under him/her are in small set-up and probability of changing of behavior is high and bound to happen quite often. He/She feels to be having freedom of behaving however he/she wants.Whereas as company can have set of ethical, legal...so on things in writing as it has be to followed across many places by setting standards and creating a restricted and controlled environment within company itself.

3. What is a personal relationship?
Personal relationship is the one in which all our members of personal life are involved, namely, our own close-knit family, close/distant relatives, friends, neighbors, and other personally known ones.

4. What is a professional relationship?
It can be interpreted as a relationship in which all our professionally related people involved including collogues, business people in the fraternity, customers, and other business partners…etc.

5. Are workplace friendships good or bad?
And
6. How does one draw a line between professional and personal relationship?
It is hard to say whether it is good and bad, as everyone has different opinion about this in their outlooks. What is good for me might be good for u. In the same way, what is comfortable in professional life might be uncomfortable to others. It is upto one to realize to what extent we need to draw the line. The line that we draw now can be erased and crossed by us only in near/long future as and when we feel that we need some more from our professional life because of extension of expectations which takes place due to many internal and external factors, namely lack of emotional support from personal life, exploration of something new and unexplored from professional, for selfish reasons.

So, as long as, we are clear and aware of our comfort zone, what we are, what we want and want to expect from workplace friendship by realizing our needs and intentions. Collogues can be irritatingly intrusive and perceptive in our personal lives as they spend most of time with us in the office. In most of cases, they will be knowing about us better than our spouses and closed ones. Until and unless we have someone with whom we can share and confide in our personal life’s details. We need to draw a line somewhere which is snug to us. In reality it is rare to get to someone who discreet ,supportive and helpful to our personal lives as margin of crossing the line is so thin.
Both can be interlinked too providing we are in an environment which is conducive and ideal for a professional to discuss and blend both relationships together. But, practically speaking, in reality it is very hard to get as it may not exist most of times. Even though it exists, there is always threat and probability of change of so-called conducive atmosphere.

Note--Comments are most welcome

1 Comments:

  • At 10:36 PM , Blogger Pallavi said...

    Well I personally prefer to keep both seperate as it is better that way... :)

     

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