What My Job Taught Me

I had secured a job at a leading matrimonial website’s office and I learnt a lot of things out there. It taught me things about couple relationships and about men that no other employer could have taught me. My reference here is to what I learnt working at Simplymarry.com office at a leading suburb of Mumbai. These few insights were out of syllabus but totally welcome!

If the matrimonial website where I worked could be called home, then I can say that I have swept and mopped the floors, unclogged the toilets, climbed the stepladder to remove the odd cobwebs, hung a few paintings, rearranged the furniture numerous times, as the home expanded from a humble 1 room office to a 4 room office in a swanky skyscraper situated in a posh area of Mumbai, in a year’s time.

What I learnt working hands on at a dynamic workplace

Having joined in March’17, the one year of handling different roles at the portal was a thrilling experience which taught me quite a few things along the way. Here’s some of what I learnt at the website:

a. Angry emails

Nine times out of ten, when someone sends you an angry email, it comes from a place of hurt, one times out of ten, it is due to arrogance.

b. Relationships and men

Men do not read articles on relationships

c. Affairs

Almost every woman who is in an affair with a married man believes that her man truly loves her, is unhappy in his marriage, that his wife is a bitch, his married life is sexless and that the affair will have a happy ending.

d. Senior writers

Sometimes, even the most senior writers can be lazy, whiny and unprofessional.

e. The Mommy worker

Nothing, no degree or work experience, can compete with a mother who has the fire in her belly to prove herself to herself, after an agonizingly long, brain numbing baby break.

f. Sex

Articles on sex get way more hits if the cover image is of a woman in lingerie, lying on a bed, looking seductively at the camera.

g. How dare you

People who express outrage on FB on the weekly articles on affairs/cheating never type out one word of appreciation for the numerous positive, uplifting and progressive pieces that go through the rest of the week.

h. HTML

It is one non-breaking space

i. Twitter celebs

Folks who become famous on Twitter are called ‘Twelebs’.

j. Plagiarism

Experts, senior writers, freshers-anyone can send in plagiarized content-repeatedly. Even after they’ve been informed why the first piece was rejected.

k. LGBT

There are a lot of gay people out there

l. The glass ceiling

Women can help women break the glass ceiling, so can men.

This is what a hands-on stint at a dynamic workplace in an emerging niche taught me. As for me, my learning was rudimentary, my journey was thrilling and the experience priceless.