On a ‘work’ation

Not Interested In 9 To 5 Job? Then It’s Time To Try Tailor-Made Jobs

Sapriya Sharma, AIS Saket, XI E

Work—for some, it sounds dreary; for some, it sounds dreamy. And when you’re expected to score a typical nine-to-five job and sit at a desk for 40 hours a week, questioning your life choices, there are some jobs around the world that are in an ‘on-again off-again’ relationship with vacations, or as they call it, a ‘workation’…

Airline Pilots
Pilots have a minimum of 12 to 15 days off per month​, depending on the airline. For example, in a 30-day month, Southwest Airlines mandates that pilots take 15 reserve days. In addition, FAA regulations allow pilots to fly just ​1,000 hours a year. Getting existential crisis yet?
Workation Invasion: Being an airplane pilot comes with its downsides. Reserve days are not necessarily vacation days. They are often spent in hotels and away from home.
GT’s Take: 8/10, because there is no place like home.

Cruise Ship Employees
Cruise employees keep some of the strangest hours. Between cruises that they are assigned, workers have chunks of vacation time. This can be as much as ​8 weeks of time off, at a stretch. Really makes you question, wat-er you doing in  your life.
Workation Invasion: When cruise ship employees are at sea, they may work up to ​100 hours a week​. They also spend a lot of time away from their families.
GT’s Take: 6/10, the very idea of working 100 hours a week takes roughly 100 business days to get used to.

Footballers
Footballers enjoy a good 6 months of holidays per year. This allows scope for  other jobs opportunities and campaigns in between. But don’t be elated just yet, it comes with its downfalls too.
Workation Invasion: At times, footballers may be expected to play ‘friendlies’ for their country or during holiday periods. Another thing to bear in mind is that a footballer’s working career is relatively short.
GT’s Take: 8/10, a short career might just not be your goal.

Air Traffic Controller
Air Traffic Controllers have work schedules that vary greatly. This includes working night shifts every week. Although they work the usual five, 8-hour shifts of a 9-to-5 worker, they work at odd times which usually gives them 8 to 9 days off per month.
Workation Invasion: The lack of consistency of shift timing takes a serious toll on sleep patterns. In fact, before night shifts, workers get an average of ​2.3 hours of sleep. Talk about being a night owl.
GT’s Take: 7/10. In the pursuit of air traffic control, we don’t want to lose our control on sleep.

Firefighters
They generally work in 24-hour shifts, followed by 2 days off. Essentially, firefighters have a weekend after every work day.
Workation Invasion: Firefighting is the second-most stressful job in the US. In addition to battling fires, they are called to the scene of car accidents, medical emergencies and other dangerous situations in the area.
GT’s Take:  6/10, the pay doesn’t exactly make you think that risking your life is worth it.

PS: Some of the professionals mentioned above risk their lives every single day. Technically they are going to work but the uncertainties involved suddenly make a 9-to-5 job sound not so bad.

Shaping world leaders

AMIMUN’20 Inspired Everyone To Be The Change

AUUP

The ninth edition of AMIMUN was organised at Amity University, Uttar Pradesh from January 17-19, 2020. The annual event, a simulation of the United Nations, aimed at giving students a platform to showcase their diplomatic skills. AMIMUN’20 was organised in collaboration with United Nations Information Center for India and Bhutan (UNIC), Dhriiti - The Courage Within, HeforShe and Doctors Without Borders. The event was recognised by the United Nations and received appreciation from the Secretary General, António Guterres.
Over 400 delegates from more than 60 different colleges of India participated in this invigorating event. With the theme ‘Audere est facere’ which is Latin for ‘To Dare is to Do’, AMIMUN encouraged the delegates to engage in debate on pressing issues that plague the world and present solutions to the same. The three day conference witnessed several power packed committees viz UN Human Rights Council, UN Historical Security Council, UN Futuristic General Assembly, UN Commission on the Status of Women, United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Continuous Crisis Committee – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and All India Political Parties Meet.
AMIMUN’20 was elated to have as Guest of Honor Eugenio Aguilo, agricultural attache, Embassy of Chile; Dr Farkas Hilda, counsellor for science and technology, Embassy of Hungary; Avigail Spira, spokesperson, Embassy of Israel; Kamal Singh, executive director & CEO, UN Global Compact Network India and Indrani Sarkar, child protection and adolescent engagement specialist, UN Children’s Fund. The event was also attended by Sana Beg, head of communication, Doctors Without Borders and Anirban Gupta, co-founder, Dhriiti- The Courage Within.
Stirring a debate on issues that plague the world, AMIMUN’20 encouraged everyone to think for a better tomorrow. And that’s perhaps what we need in our world leaders.

Experience of a lifetime

A Data Analytics Workshop

ASCO | AUMP

Amity School of Communication, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior organised a three-day workshop on ‘Data Analytics and Modelling’ from Jan 31-Feb 2, 2020. The workshop threw light on several key areas in the field as scaling and scale development and refinement, exploratory factor analysis as a tool to build construct in SPSS, introduction to Smart PLS 3.0 software, types of mediation moderation effects, etc.
Offering hands-on training to 35 participants, it was indeed an enriching experience for the attendees. What made the workshop even more exciting was the fact that each participant was provided two months of free key worth 44 Euros each (3,488 INR) as an incentive. The workshop was partially funded by Smart PLS 3.2.9 from Northern Institute of Technology, TUHH University, Hamburg, Germany.
Dr Atul Shiva, assistant professor, University School of Business-MBA, Chandigarh University and Dr Sumit Narula, director, ASCO, AUMP were the facilitators of the workshop.

What made the workshop even more exciting was the fact that each participant was provided two months of free key worth 44 Euros each (3,488 INR) as an incentive.