Opinion
Nidhi Daithankar
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THE PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX: ENTERING THE MEDIA INDUSTRY By Nidhi Daithankar
Just take one look at my current search history, and you’ll f ind hundreds of ‘How to Choose a Fulf illing Career’ articles that I’ve sifted through in my 2am delirium in recent months.
Issue 06
For me, graduating always seemed like a distant event in the unforeseeable future. We have A.I. Instagram influencers (Lil Miquela anyone?), phones with storage the size of laptops, and an immersive online world that has truly transformed the course of life. But actually having to leave school? No, that always seemed far-fetched to me – indeed, if academics have taught me anything it’s been to bask in the comfort of knowing that 30 years later, this one 30% assignment is going to be an inf initely minuscule moment in my life. However, this has since started to evolve into a sort of paradox in my mind – I call it the productivity paradox. In order to reach a point in my life when university goes f rom the present to just a collection of hand-picked memories, I will have to come to terms with the fact that one day I will have to turn the tassel, so to speak. My earliest memories of my childhood were in school, where I was told I was a distraction to the class projecting my boredom onto others. My homework would nearly always be returned to me with tedious notes scrawled in the margins or questions marks scattered periodically, but always that one word at the end of my work – “careless”; scribbled in dangerously red, seriously bright, ballpoint. Seeing this word numerous times, my parents attempted to drill into me the age-old rhetoric (in a not-so-nice voice) that “you reap what you sow”.
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