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‘She is so involved’ said the eminent scholar about one of his teachers. History teachers who teach with understanding and passion are hard to find and therefore it is claimed…Continue readingAttitudes towards Work – 18 May 2010

Sameer was in a hurry to rise up the ladder. He had just graduated in engineering three years ago. He was however from a semi-rural background and always found himself falling short of his own expectations and that of others. He was sensitive about criticism which his boss was unfortunately in the habit of doing so at every opportunity. He felt miserable with his life and moreover with himself. Will he ever improve and will he ever make it big were haunting questions with which he was becoming sort of obsessed. That made him even more miserable. He did contemplate suicide once but soon gave up the thought. He would not think of that drastic a measure after what his parents had helped him achieve. He was an engineering graduate and he did have a job though not satisfying enough. That perhaps was the source of his misery he would think. Sameer was often thinking about the negatives in his life and spent more time on brooding rather than focusing on his performance at his job. His boss was getting nastier and he was now afraid of losing this job too which he desperately needed. So he came for counselling.
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