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Subject Matter Expert, or not?

August 2015 · Prafulla Prakash

Recap: Rejected twice in tech lead interviews, I started questioning if people took me seriously. Maybe a beard could help me look less like a kid and more like a team leader.

I'm now a team leader trainee. My habit of working overtime continues. Is this a coincidence, bad luck, or a sign of something deeper — could I be a workaholic in the making?

Key question: Why am I enjoying this?

My friends at work who I share my flat with are busy figuring out ways to slack off and newer ways to spend money (I think most of it was to impress women and somehow get lucky). Me, on the other hand, was trying to figure out ways to shake off the "trainee" part from "TL trainee." Pretty weird for a 23-year-old.

Perhaps it wasn't so much about being a workaholic as it was about a sense of purpose I had unknowingly attached to work.

Well, honestly speaking — pata nahi!

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