Hi guys..
"Aaila.. What you doing here..??" one fellow asked me in a Finance Seminar last week. Embarrassed to hear that i felt a divine enlightenment to write this post after a long time.
If anyone had enjoyed attending most boring of seminars then I must say im one of those so called talented freaks. Being in consulting / Finance field, seminars come as part and borrowed parcel of life. Few days back I attended one more seminar and it turned out to be a good outing for me! Till now regular attendance in Seminars has given me some material to type down thoughts, views, feelings, opinions, judgments (Whatever jatra u assume..)
- If you want to experience how people look at a guy they think he's in wrong place then simply attend a finance seminar wearing your fav jeans. I swear they'll make you feel like a beggar, no matter even if you’re wearing a Red Tag Levis' or Lance Lee coopers.
- Do not act like a satellite looking here and there or you'll end finding more satellites.
- Speakers generally are people who explain the matter and then explain why the matter explained should not be explained the way it’s explained. For instance, in a tax seminar speaker said Section xxx talks about this and that but that 'this and that' can not be 'this and that' as 'this and that' is not the way 'this and that' is.
- People tend to look at their watches more in Seminars than they look at it some other times. One should really wear nice watch. Aint mate
- Most of us always expect the big guns to deliver a proficient speech no matter even if we’ve heard them speak same words in earlier seminars. People never blame them for lack of new words or same joke but blame the pathetic organizer for paying him.
- Seminars are new method of ‘networking’. No matter how much u r interested in speaker, ur satellite will always catch some people offering unwanted business cards.
- Tax seminars are most interesting ones as per me. They never conclude but elaborate only to end the session by standard sentences like- “Participants may deliberate on this issue”, “Whether it would be available or rejected?”, “A question arises, and no one has any answer, hence participants may further argue..”, etc etc.
- People attend seminars to find answers and end up with more queries. Cause generally elaboration in seminars is exaggeration of thoughts. I recently heard one speaker arguing with a fellow over whether common streets where a milkman operates generally, be called as his place of business. I even saw some few (including me) noting down the case law on that. Oops, where’s the note..!
Above list is relative; different for different people. However, whenever my boss asks what u learned in Seminar (Being co. sponsored), I’ve only one answer- “I can elaborate on that sir...!”
