In many of our office discussions, we talk of a lot of things regarding work and beyond it too. Beliefs, hard facts, theories or sometimes just simple senseless chatter. We had discussed on such theory sometime ago, which comes to my mind today.
Sai has this theory - no matter what kind of work is given to interns, they always have a tendency to gravitate towards toilet drawings. And I have observed that it is partly true too. Perhaps part of the reason is all the jokes (and some true accounts) going around about how interns are only made to design and detail out toilets. Today as I sat and made a revised tiling drawing for a bathroom wherein we decided to change the tiles, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Why are bathrooms and interns so synonymous with one another? As per Sai's theory - Interns only get stuck doing toilet drawings when they believe that is all that they can do. When you believe that you can do much more, you end up doing much more! Yes, all of us here have encountered a toilet drawing in some capacity or the other - Tiling, plumbing or at the very least designing bathroom undercounters! But we have also done so much more. Designing and drawing, interacting with clients, dealing with vendors, supervising sites. When I look at the whole picture and all the other opportunities I've grabbed, I don't mind making a toilet drawing or two, every now and then!
Sai has this theory - no matter what kind of work is given to interns, they always have a tendency to gravitate towards toilet drawings. And I have observed that it is partly true too. Perhaps part of the reason is all the jokes (and some true accounts) going around about how interns are only made to design and detail out toilets. Today as I sat and made a revised tiling drawing for a bathroom wherein we decided to change the tiles, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Why are bathrooms and interns so synonymous with one another? As per Sai's theory - Interns only get stuck doing toilet drawings when they believe that is all that they can do. When you believe that you can do much more, you end up doing much more! Yes, all of us here have encountered a toilet drawing in some capacity or the other - Tiling, plumbing or at the very least designing bathroom undercounters! But we have also done so much more. Designing and drawing, interacting with clients, dealing with vendors, supervising sites. When I look at the whole picture and all the other opportunities I've grabbed, I don't mind making a toilet drawing or two, every now and then!
-Mannat
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