Trainings on Saturdays...

YES... I completed the three day training on IBM Websphere. And well..I did learn... atleast on thursday and friday but on saturday..

All these three days i have been thinking "Do we at this stage of our brain development cycles need trainings?". When was the last time you listened to your teacher and actually understood what was being taught. With male teachers, the cricket match happening outside the classroom was always more interesting. With "good" female teachers, we used to be attentive.. but hey hey... not to what they were teaching.. And the last and the least.. with not so good female profs.. fortunately they were not so harsh on attendance.. so never attended... :)

In this, the one i attended, a poor little "muchhad" soul tried to make us understand everything about websphere. Starting from the basics he went on the most intricate topics like clustering and messaging etc. And well, i must mention, the guy was good. He was technically sound and a decent communicator.

But again do we really need trainings. Arent we along with the services of Google capable enough to make any damn stupid thing (yes even websphere) work when thrusted upon us. To support my motion, I have completed almost three years in the industry, worked on various technologies, various different products without a single training (this was my first). And I have atleast survived without struggle.

Spoon feeding is what i call such trainings. And problem comes when someone is trying to spoon feed you while you are not hungry. You will either refuse to swallow, or puke it out later. When you are actually hungry, and you are as mature as a twenty something should be, you will easily find food to your liking (ofcourse, google has laid out all the delicacies of the world at a click's distance..:)

Ok, so i buy the other argument as well. A good training can save us a lot of time. Ofcourse, whatever i was taught in three days, googling it out would probably have taken a week. But the important part is right amount of training and more importantly at the right time. So if you are taught something today which is not to be used before 6 months, its useless.

And lastly, my motivation for this blog, IT SHOULD NOT BE ON SATURDAYS. Imaging yourself getting up early on a weekend, taking a bath early on a weekend, getting ready and leaving the house early on a weekend. Driving 35Kms to office. And all this, to attend a training... Had it been to work and meet some deadline, it was still understandable.. But for a training... no way.

So I dont know if trainings are good or bad... but there are a strict no no on weekends...Had it not been for the saturday, Probably the topic of this blog would have been : "Trainings, A must" .... :)..