Page 3 - Al-Rashed Newsletter April 2020

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MR. VENUGOPAL THADATHIL - SENIOR PROJECT ANALYST

1) If you have to describe your professional life in three sentence ?
As a rookie, I took every opportunity as a challenge, and was eager to learn from those opportunities. Went the

extra mile in creating own rules that was required to simplify the task on hand. The analytical skills I got from
education, really helped me to keep my cool under pressure. I always believed that a well-organized person can
take on any amount of work.

2) The time you realized (incident/moment/project) that I meant for shipping world ?
This moment happened within few months of joining this company. The management was looking to
promote a junior staff to the all important customer service desk, and my name was kind of an automatic choice.
This promotion was my actual stepping stone to the shipping world.

3) Share any of your significant experiences from your long journey in shipping?
It is difficult to single out any single incident, as each incident is unique in its own way. These incidents kept
happening on daily basis all thru the years, by virtue of the variety of activities I was involved with.

4) If not shipping then what career you would like to pursue?
To be frank, shipping as a career was not there in wildest of my dreams. During the pre-shipping career era most
of my engagements were of technical/electrical in nature. As a boy, I visualized myself to become a sound
engineer in the future.

5) Your thoughts on humanity in this era, especially in the current scenario?
The current trends in digital communication are alarming and may have a negative long-term impact on human
social interaction. The excess digitization is slowly turning humans into humanoids, that is appearance
resembling a human, with a machine brain. The humanity is disappearing from daily life.The best place to,
reverse this trend is family. Just being a human being defines you everywhere. Helping anyone who is in need is
humanity. This is a time when we need humanity in abundance. A tiny virus has shown that the best medicine to
survive this gigantic scare is humanity. The choice we make now will decide the fate of generations to come

6) What is the most challenging aspect of your job?
The short answer is: Time management. It is important to divide the time between specific activities, which spans
over different time zones.

7) What you do to unwind after work?
Nothing much apart from some family chores. Shipping is 24 x 7 engagement, some or the other is always
chasing you for urgent matters.

8) Any advice, you would like to give to the young and senior employees of Al Rashed ?
Our company handles a wide variety of shipping activities – from normal agency work to freight forwarding to
project handling and so on. The opportunity available for the staff to learn the tricks of the trade is enormous.
Being organized allow you to accept any challenge thrown at you.

-Interviewed by: Naseema Khan