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Hello Guys,
I joined Cognizant recently, the project interview calls which I am getting is not from my base location.
I have the location constraint, should I wait for the right opportunity or raise this concern to ADP team so they can look in to it?
As per ADP policy, one should not have any constraints and take the project as FCFS basis.
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One big thing for me is learning to accept that it is impossible to keep all things handled at all times and to learn how to instead deal with things in chunks and build systems that deal with the types of things you need to be doing consistently.
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Try not to be as emotionally invested in it. Realize that, at the end of the day, it’s a job, and all you can do is the best you can.
I find that these 12 Steps carry me through.
1. Embrace the Abyss: Admit that the legal profession is an abyss that looks back into you, where printer jams are a metaphor for existential despair, and client emails at midnight are the universe questioning your life choices.
2. Find a Darker Power: Believe that a darker power, perhaps the ghost of a lawyer who never billed enough hours, could guide you through the treacherous waters of legal practice without losing your soul (entirely).
3. Surrender to Cynicism: Decide to turn your will and your days over to the cynical acceptance that justice is just a word, and the real winner is always the one with the most billable hours.
4. Catalogue Your Miseries: Make a searching and grim inventory of every slight, every lost case, and every instance where the law felt more like an antagonist in a Kafka novel than a noble pursuit.
5. Confess Your Sins to a Bar(stool): Admit the nature of your wrongs to a barstool, because it’s the only one that will listen without billing you, confessing everything from the petty theft of office supplies to the grandiose delusions of making partner.
6. Prepare for a Dark Night of the Soul: Be entirely ready to have your assistant draft emails that gently suggest clients might want to find a more optimistic counsel—one not steeped in the dark arts of legal nihilism.
7. Solicit Removal of Your Few Remaining Scruples: Humbly ask the spirits of lawyers past to remove your scruples, ensuring that your moral compass spins freely, guided by the whims of billable necessity rather than ethical considerations.
8. List Everyone You’ve Outlasted: Make a list of all the colleagues who’ve left the practice, either for a ‘better life’ or the great courthouse in the sky, acknowledging that you’re still here, billing time like a champ.
9. Atone with the Interns: Make direct amends to interns you’ve scared with tales of perpetual work and no play, offering them the solace of knowing that, yes, it really is that bleak.
10. Embrace Ongoing Despair: Continue to take personal inventory, and when you catch yourself feeling a moment of joy, promptly squelch it with the remembrance of a particularly brutal cross-examination or contract negotiation.
11. Meditate on the Void: Seek through meditation to improve your contact with the void, asking for knowledge of nothingness and the power to embrace the absurdity of the legal process.
12. Spread the Gloom: Having had a morose awakening as the result of these steps, try to carry this message to other attorneys, practicing these principles in all your billable hours and non-billable moments of dread.
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