"'Money', so they say, 'is the root of all that is evil'" ~ Money, Pink Floyd
I was born in a middle class family. My father worked for the CISF, and later went to 'gelf'. My dad's siblings use to complain that he doesn't earn. And he didn't too. But neither did he ever fail to support us in anyway. I always got what I wanted.
When I grew up, and while I was attending college, my mom would always advice me to concentrate more on my studies, saying that dad has loads of debts. Eventually, I finished my college, but without a degree. Nevertheless, I got a job right after I left college at Innoz, the startup by 3 of my classmates. There was no salary at the beginning though. After that I was given 3k a month as salary, and I was the only employee there. Salary increased gradually, and once I even joined a different company at 12k. But then Innoz called me back offering 10k. The other company being shitty, I went back to Innoz.
Salary would then become 12k after some 8 or 9 months, then was about to be 15 after some more months, when I said that won't be enough. So it was finalized on 17. I'm intentionally not commenting on any of this.
On telling that 15 won't be enough and to make it higher, I was told there will be better pay after the company gets proper revenue and then I would be saying the pay is too high.
Afterwards, the office was shifted from the 16 seater Technopark TBIC room in Trivandrum to the present 3 floor + basement office building in Koramangala, Bangalore. The salary was increased from 17 to 30k after the shift. By then the company has received the first real revenue from SMS Gyan, as a cheque from Airtel. I told the team again that the salary will have to be raised. I was expecting the 'too high' pay to happen then. But the raise was again another 10k, to make the current 40k.
By then everyone else in the team seemed happy. One of em even seemed ecstatic, but I can only think of his low expectations. Expectation, of course, reduces joy, but I'm not just expecting. I need to be paid more. I think I deserve more.
I was born in a middle class family. My father worked for the CISF, and later went to 'gelf'. My dad's siblings use to complain that he doesn't earn. And he didn't too. But neither did he ever fail to support us in anyway. I always got what I wanted.
When I grew up, and while I was attending college, my mom would always advice me to concentrate more on my studies, saying that dad has loads of debts. Eventually, I finished my college, but without a degree. Nevertheless, I got a job right after I left college at Innoz, the startup by 3 of my classmates. There was no salary at the beginning though. After that I was given 3k a month as salary, and I was the only employee there. Salary increased gradually, and once I even joined a different company at 12k. But then Innoz called me back offering 10k. The other company being shitty, I went back to Innoz.
Salary would then become 12k after some 8 or 9 months, then was about to be 15 after some more months, when I said that won't be enough. So it was finalized on 17. I'm intentionally not commenting on any of this.
On telling that 15 won't be enough and to make it higher, I was told there will be better pay after the company gets proper revenue and then I would be saying the pay is too high.
Afterwards, the office was shifted from the 16 seater Technopark TBIC room in Trivandrum to the present 3 floor + basement office building in Koramangala, Bangalore. The salary was increased from 17 to 30k after the shift. By then the company has received the first real revenue from SMS Gyan, as a cheque from Airtel. I told the team again that the salary will have to be raised. I was expecting the 'too high' pay to happen then. But the raise was again another 10k, to make the current 40k.
By then everyone else in the team seemed happy. One of em even seemed ecstatic, but I can only think of his low expectations. Expectation, of course, reduces joy, but I'm not just expecting. I need to be paid more. I think I deserve more.
