First session

Today the first session on the paper Environmental Management for the new PGDMs went ar 12.00 noon. Since it was the introduction and the students were just four hours into the class room, there was enough to talk in general and students were attntive most of them.

But more than that it was the first class in nearly two months. And it is always a surprise that how much as a teacher there is a need for me to speak. This came out as a surprise when sometime in 2001 or so during the vacation one of my cousins asked me a doubt and then I could not stop at all.

This reinforces the idea that work shapes one's behaviour as much as one shapes the work. The whole idea of career suiting one may be an exaggeration in the broad sense. Sure the one with little interest in living beings may not become a good doctor, but for most other jobs the job shapes the character and the person.

One may extend to mean that the organisation shapes, or the industry in which one works shapes one's behaviour or even the locale or the naiton itself.

Such is the kind of mutual shaping that man and his work's interaction facilitates.