Travailler En Inde

Malgré les défis excitants de l’entrepreneuriat, il y a des jours comme ça où même le patron n’y croit plus. Je traverse un peu cette période.

Il fut un temps où plus on me disait que ça ne marcherait pas et plus j’avais envi de prouver à la tierre entière qu’ils avaient tort. Aujourd’hui, je suis fatiguée, oui c’est celà le mot: “fatiguée”.

Cela s’explique peut-être par un ralentissement des ventes, par une saturation des problèmes, par une impression que rien n’avance, par une vision trouble de l’avenir de la boîte ou tout simplement, cela s’explique par le fait que j’ai besoin de vacances.

Peu importe la cause, le résultat est le même, mes journées au boulot semblent interminables: entre moments de rêverie, surfing sur internet et emails à des amies, je ne suis pas très productive.

D’après mes investigations, c’est plutôt normal. Un ami m’avait envoyé un tableau décrivant les cycles du choc culturel:

• Honeymoon Period: Initially, you will probably be fascinated and excited by everything new. Visitors are at first overjoyed to be in a new culture.
• Culture Shock: The visitor is immersed in new problems: housing, transportation, food, language and new friends. Fatigue may result from continuously trying to comprehend and use the second language. You may wonder, “Why did I come here?”
• Initial Adjustment: Everyday activities such as housing and going to school are no longer major problems. Although you may not yet be perfectly fluent in the language spoken, basic ideas and feelings in the second language can be expressed.
• Mental Isolation: Individuals have been away from their families and good friends for a long period of time and may feel lonely. Many still feel they cannot express themselves as well as they can in their native language. Frustrations and sometimes a loss of self-confidence result. Some individuals remain at this stage.
• Acceptance and Integration: A routine (e.g. work, school, social life) has been established. The visitor has accepted the habits, customs, foods and characteristics of the people in the new culture. The visitor feels comfortable with friends, associates, and the language of the country.
• Return Anxiety, Re-Entry Shock, Re-Integration: These stages should be mentioned, even at Orientation, because of the very important part they play in a visitor’s stay in the new culture. It is interesting to note that REENTRY SHOCK can be more difficult than the initial CULTURE SHOCK. You will learn more about it when it becomes closer to the time of your departure home.

Resource material: The International Services Office, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Original source unknown.

Je pense qu’il doit aussi exister des cycles pour la création d’entreprise (je l’imagine plus en dents de scie):

ENTHOUSIASME => DESILLUSION => REGAIN D’ENERGIE => FATIGUE => RECONQUETE => ECHEC =>VICTOIRE etc…

En attendant, le prochain cycle…