This submit was authored by Ruffina Perlintina, a latest technical consulting engineering intern on the Enterprise Networking TAC Workforce.
Who doesn’t get pleasure from 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 really one thing I’d by no means heard of. On a latest Monday, most of my associates from different corporations have been working. Nonetheless, I took the chance to spontaneously go on a small weekend getaway to the seashore 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 obtained to satisfy a childhood good friend I hadn’t seen in a really very long time, go on a buying spree, get pleasure from some video games on the play zone, take a stroll alongside the gorgeous glistening waters of the seashores at night time, and even check out the scrumptious and mouth-watering South Indian seafood delicacies. Oh, and did I point out? I additionally took some lovely footage for my Instagram.
Consuming 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 in a position to wind down with out having to hurry again to something. That’s as a result of one of many largest advantages of the Day for Me is that everybody at Cisco enjoys the identical time off every quarter. So, nobody returns to an inbox stuffed with unanswered emails or Webex messages to compensate 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 wonderfully pre-planned and structured journey or getaway. It may merely be spending a day doing what we get pleasure from essentially the most, be it portray, watching a film, or just doing nothing. Take a day to show off all gadgets, 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 resort suite, however the moments and the reminiscences, like trying outdoors a restaurant with a phenomenal view, studying a ebook when it rains, sitting round watching your favorite present with family members, or jogging on an empty pathway with earphones in that actually counts.
Sluggish 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 overlook how mandatory it’s to decelerate, pause, go searching, cherish what we now have proper now, and be grateful about it. It isn’t the objective however the progress and journey we should always concentrate on.
With Cisco, I’ve had this opportunity to rediscover my long-lost ability 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 may be 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 proper work-life stability, flexibility, and well-being prioritization. To make the very best out of it lies in our arms. Though I had heard a lot about Cisco’s dedication to its workers earlier than beginning, I used to be in a position to really 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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