It was another maniac Monday in the lives of 27 year old Pallavi and her husband Sandip Gupta. Having to manage a two year old toddler and rushing to work while awaiting the nanny to come is your worst unfolding nightmare.
Pallavi and Sandip met on the portals of FMS, Delhi and even before they passed out to the institute were much in love. They got married soon after graduating with Sandip joining Hughes software and Pallavi at Wipro. Both were based out in Bangalore and they enjoyed their first few honeymoon years in the garden city to the brim.
As they progressed up the corporate ladder, their hours of work increased and with the birth of Anju even the household chores went up manifold. A software job sure brings in lot of money and overseas travel but the downside is it gets too enervating. One lives staring at the computer and one becomes too cocooned to one’s routine.
Pallavi and Sandip had traveled all around the world and were not as enamoured as before. Pallavi wanted to quit her job but it would cut into their savings and one does not resign from a profession while still in their twenties.
The mad rushes in the mornings, the traffic snarls and jams and conference calls to clients across different time zones were proving too hectic for the young mother. In addition, she had to supervise the well being of her daughter in a crèche. Things were coming to the head and she wasn’t able to straddle both the boats. Anju needed her care as the nanny only spoke Kannada while the Guptas spoke Hindi.
Even as she dressed to work, the baby would sense it and brawl her heart out.
She just quit her job one day and told her husband, “this pace of life cannot go on forever and we need to give our full attention to the baby. Obviously, I won’t sit idle all day but instead plan to start a small restaurant. It is something I always wanted to do and this would give me the flexibility to manage the home as well”.
Sandip was encouraging from the start and that gave birth to “Mast Kalander”, a casual dining restaurant in Bangalore. They started with North Indian menu and it has done well in the four years since inception. So well in fact that they have opened four more outlets and even Sandip has joined the business full time.
As for Pallavi, she is ecstatic. “A corporate job gets boring after some time and one longs to do something on one’s own. Here we set our own standards and there is no rigidity of a 9 to 5 here. Once you start getting up in the mornings with a headache at the prospect of going to work, then one must quit. I did and I have prospered”.
May be lesson in it for us!!
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