Passion turned into a profession

My father always used to say that one should a have a hobby which can possibly become a profession later in ones life. As a child I was into several hobbies, but drawing and lyric writing stayed with me.



Since my main profession of Agricultural Knowledge Management which deals with farmers, repackaging information in lyrics having public appeal and depicting the same in pictures made my information dissemination activities special. This way my two hobbies came to my rescue.

While I took a break in my career to raise my daughter myself, drawings became my staple profession. I was preparing sketches dipicting Tribal songs and stories for SAKTI, a voluntary organization working for tribals. I could do this assignment from home, baby-sitting my daughter and sharing her crayons and paints.

Now that she is grown up, I am back to my main profession - thesauri, ontologies and the like. Although my hands are busy my heart is open to accept small drawing assignments which bring me respite and punctuate my otherwise monotonous assignments.