Statement Of Purpose

For all you dudes and dudettes aspiring to get into universities or companies, there is something known as a SOP – statement of purpose.
There was a particularly painful form, which I did not fill, which has this question. The answer follows.

Successful leaders have a clear sense of purpose. What is your statement of purpose?

In order to supply any reasonable answer to this, let me also make my views on who successful leaders in my eyes are. I would say the Osama bin laden, Dawood ibrahim, George Bush Sr. ( junior just had another idiot to contend with, I mean the voters had no choice, if the other guy had won, we would have the same things happening anyway) , Indira Gandhi ( she actually won on a slogan “Garibi hatao” ( eradicate poverty, covertly suggesting that the poor be gotten rid of, something her son tried, and she accomplished in no small measure by dying). Among corporate persona – Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Vijay Mallya, Dhirubhai Ambani, Karsanbhai ( of nirma fame). You get the idea.
Of these, I like only Vijay ( owner of UB – the worlds second largest brewery) and Larry ( owner of Oracle), as in I aspire to follow in the footsteps of these two. There is of course the Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packers ( sigh!, may god have mercy on his soul).
Henceforth, everything I write should be seen in light of this.

One talks about long term goals. Let me give you a flavour of what mine are. Here! I closed my eyes for a minute and tried to imagine what I would want to be at 55. I came across myself in colourful Hawaiian shorts and a beach shirt having a meeting on sponsoring the next playmate of the year shoot at Bermuda. Err. The rest is confidential.

Lets come to short term goals. You see, I have been duped so far in my life into believing that one should be educated. So like most of the people in India I appeared for 2 such public exams, and unlike most, cleared them. Now what people fail to see is that it has its own costs. Mine is 6 years of my life. At the end of it all, I am in a position where 40 days and 40 nights is not happening. There are some things I want in life. I am not settling for anything less than that. Any job where I don’t get to eat quality food is out. ( sorry McDonalds and subway are at best stopgap arrangements.) Something like a good lasagna every 3 days ( sans the bird flu risk of course) is more like it. No mess or standardized arrangements which make you eat shit with a lot of other people. I understand fertilizer is needed in the country, but that’s for plants, not human beings.
Then we come to other essentials of life – namely alcohol. A weekend beer is a must. Anyone who asks me to give that up, I am not joining. An opportunity to use HLL ( Hindustan Latex Limited) products is also welcome. Apart from these, I really don’t have any other needs, apart from the occasional ( read pref daily, twice daily) shots of Jack Daniels, or Absolut.

Medium term goals – should I even talk about them. But wait, I already have. Refer to this for them.

And to any other evil HR who wants to know my purpose – up yours!
~hope you gets the ideaz
~Somanxo