Office mantras

Now I have settled into the "professional" mode and have started doing "something meaningful".

The work is amazing and you can learn a lot from it. The problems you face make you scratch your head and sometimes frustrate you (I started thinking, "what have I done in my 4 years of engineering :( ", for one of the problems). Then you find solution for problems and you feel on top of the world, the felling that you have done something "meaningful". You write a piece of code, send it to review, wait for the review comments, discuss and change your code, and after few such cycles, the manager finally approves the code. It is a great feeling when your code get approved for the first time.

But what next? You have completed your work, that too before you are suppose to, and then you start thinking what am I going to do next?

Here are some tips of how you are suppose to cope with this extremely rare situation...

1) Run your code again and again to find bugs.. (you actually pray that there are no bugs, and after every successful test you give a hypothetical pat on your back.)
2) Read your code and try to beautify it. Try to do something fundoo even if no one would care. And after all possible experiments revert the code back to the approved version..
3) Take long lunch breaks, even go on walks.
4) Take a novel and read.
5) Constantly check something dynamic as stock market or cricket scores and keep every one else updated.
6) Come late, leave early.
7) Start a blog, if you have one, post something on it.

Statutory Warning: Following these tips are subjected to workplace risks, please read the company culture for more info.