Doing an Asok

For all the money a consultant makes, the job is often thankless. Nothing exemplifies this better than today’s Dilbert:

There are some parallels and some non-parallels between Asok and me:

• Asok, like me is an IIT graduate. Worse still, like me he is trained to sleep only on national holidays
  
  
• I must have flunked the course where they taught us to reheat tea by holding the cup to my forehead
  
  
• But I did meet the prerequisite for getting in
  
  
• Asok is an intern, hence his position at the company is not permanent. As a consultant my privileges at my client are pretty similar, except that a consultant probably earns about 4 times more than an intern
  
  
• I must have also flunked this other course, since I am still nutty about a lot of things:
  

My kinship with Asok often reminds me of this classic scene from Lage Raho Munna Bhai:

Yes, just keep doing it hoping that some day things will be better.