Words are Weariness

Parallelism We are coming with more checks, more fines, more often                 __ Tagline of Yarra Trams’ (Melbourne) drive against ticket-less travel. Is this catchy l tag line is grammatically wrong ?  Hard to believe.  Grammarians say  it is parallelism ;  you should not mix adjectives and nouns  in a sequence.  Faulty parallelism is when the different elements, though grammatically correct by themselves, do not mesh properly in one sentence. While some parallelism is barely noticeable, others can be quite jarring.  Examples of fault parallelism could be:           Including gerunds and infinitives in a list           Adjectives and nouns in a list           Changing from passive voice to active voice or vice versa .           Changing from second person to third person arbitrarily           Changing from present tense to past tense  etc. etc. While it is nobody’s case that all writing must be straight-jacketed into one style and catchy phrasism  sho

My Organization has a mentor-ship program. Senior consultants are encouraged to take under their wings one or two juniors and engage them in conversation about what they look for in their career and how they see themselves in the organization in the next few years.   I take to this activity enthusiastically.  Like the proverbial 7-year itch, many young people working in IT services, start worrying about where their career is headed after the initial euphoria of landing on the job is over. It happens anywhere during the first 3 to 7 years. Some are assailed by self-doubt while some others feel let down after having cultivated too high an expectation about what they could achieve.  Some are insecure that they are working on Technology platforms that are outdated and some others simply do not fancy themselves in a technical role and yearn for roles as Analysts and rue their lack of ‘domain experience’ that it entails. Almost invariably everybody yearns for ‘on-site opportunities’. Th