This publish was authored by Ruffina Perlintina, a current technical consulting engineering intern on the Enterprise Networking TAC Workforce.
Who doesn’t take pleasure in an prolonged weekend?
Sure, work is enjoyable, retains us and on our toes, however as people, all of us want breaks. One such break I skilled as an intern at Cisco was the Day For Me!
It was the primary time I had come throughout such a factor, and it was actually one thing I’d by no means heard of. On a current Monday, most of my associates from different corporations have been working. Nevertheless, I took the chance to spontaneously go on a small weekend getaway to the seaside metropolis of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.
It was a 6-hour journey by automotive, 345 km away from my hometown, Salem. I listened to music alongside the journey because the scenic views of the cotton-like clouds, bluish-grey lakes, brown hills, and inexperienced mountains mesmerized me. As poetic and exaggerative because it sounds, nature did do a quantity on me, leaving me with the curiosity to discover extra, however the scorching warmth of the solar stored me from leaving the automotive.
In Chennai, I bought to fulfill a childhood buddy I hadn’t seen in a really very long time, go on a purchasing spree, take pleasure in some video games on the play zone, take a stroll alongside the attractive glistening waters of the seashores at evening, and even check out the scrumptious and mouth-watering South Indian seafood delicacies. Oh, and did I point out? I additionally took some lovely photos for my Instagram.
Ingesting cup after cup of filter espresso, consuming some tirunelveli halwa (an Indian candy), sipping on a powerful glass of cardamom tea, and savouring some contemporary mangoes, I knew these flavours have been going to be remembered for a lifetime and can take me again to Tamil Nadu quickly.
The very best half is that I used to be capable of wind down with out having to hurry again to something. That’s as a result of one of many greatest advantages of the Day for Me is that everybody at Cisco enjoys the identical day without work every quarter. So, nobody returns to an inbox stuffed with unanswered emails or Webex messages to atone for. All of us begin the week contemporary and refreshed collectively.
My Key Takeaways
A Day for Me Needn’t Be Extravagant.
We needn’t make a superbly pre-planned and structured journey or getaway. It might merely be spending a day doing what we take pleasure in essentially the most, be it portray, watching a film, or just doing nothing. Take a day to show off all units, shut down the skin noises, and tune right into a quieter, slower life.
It’s the Small Issues That Depend.
It isn’t in regards to the costly enterprise class ticket or the lodge suite, however the moments and the recollections, like trying exterior a restaurant with a stupendous view, studying a e book when it rains, sitting round watching your favorite present with family members, or jogging on an empty pathway with earphones in that actually counts.
Gradual Down, and Be Grateful.
We are likely to get caught up in a aggressive cycle of both stepping up a hierarchy or focusing on to make more cash so typically that we neglect how crucial it’s to decelerate, pause, go searching, cherish what we now have proper now, and be grateful about it. It isn’t the aim however the progress and journey we must always deal with.
With Cisco, I’ve had this opportunity to rediscover my long-lost talent and love for writing. The alternatives I get to place myself on the market are quite a few. It’s been 5 months right here, the 6th working, and I wouldn’t change a factor. There’s a lot to be taught from so many inspiring folks in and round my division, throughout the globe, and as I embark on this lovely pathway, I’ll all the time come again to my days as an intern and the way it all started.
As Cisco workers, all of us have first-hand expertise with the right work-life steadiness, flexibility, and well-being prioritization. To make the very best out of it lies in our fingers. Though I had heard a lot about Cisco’s dedication to its workers earlier than beginning, I used to be capable of actually cherish each second of it all through this internship. And actually, I can’t watch for my full-time function to start to discover extra as a Cisco TAC Engineer and luxuriate in extra Days for Me!
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