The most sought after job is not that of a Software Engineer... it's that of a "kaam wali" (maid servant). With a lot of competition that exists in this job, it's a niche area. Mind you it's not an easy job. Below are some of the traits of typical "kaam wali" which will make identification easy:
1. If you hear some wierd language that sounds like a fcked up version of your local language
2. If the person knocks at you door at 7 am telling you that you need domestic help
3. If the person offers domestic help and charges 500 rs per task (no it's not listed in TFS ...that is charged extra)
4. If the person treats your house has her own house literally
5. If the person has a tendency to tell you that you need to buy sugar ASAP, because she can't start work without a chai first!
6. If the person decides to disappear at will for a couple of days and has the nerve to not inform you.
7. If the person is responsible for causing a virtual inflation in your society/apartment by job hoping across floors or other buildings in the same campus
8. If the person tells you to turn the TV on or play some music, since she apparently performs best while listening to music or watching TV.
9. If the person tells you to turn the AC on, since she is feeling hot.
10. If the person doesn't care a s**t about how long she's been working with you, but will still demand a raise after every 15 days.
11. If the person cooks extra food to being with, so that an opportunity is created automatically where in you will offer her to take the food that otherwise would have gone waste!
12. If the person is highly influenced with indian-soap-operas such that, she will be trying various techniques to eavesdrop on private family conversations that she learnt in these shows
13. If you can trust that person to publicly declare every single thing that happens in your house.
14. If you can trust her to leave the job for someone else is offering her 10 rupees more per month.
15. If she gives reasons like, "bus late aayi", "baccho ko school mein chod na tha", "mere pati ne raat ko bahut maara", "mein time peich aayi, aapni ghadi tapaso", "tula kadhi usheer nahi ka zhala melya" etc.
16. If her name is "Gangu", "Shanta", "Kanta", "Mangal", "Ujwal" then they are considered pedigree.
All the "kaam walis" are super unique. They come in various shapes, sizes and age. The older ones are more groomed to deal with trying situations, however they don't usually stay put on the point. The younger ones think "women empowerment" is all about them in specific and don't leave an opportunity to blurt a heavy dose of dirties abuse you have ever heard in a life time if you ask them to do additional work. Then there are ones which try different techniques to earn some real fast money (remember that Bollywood actor who was convicted for raping a "kaam wali"). Then there are those who wouldn't bother to wear clean clothes everyday and stink enough to wake you up even if you are in the deepest of sleeps. There are those who can finish "zhadu + pocha" for a 2 bhk flat (approx 900sqft area) in 10 mins or lesser period! Then there are those who can consume all the soap that you bought for washing the utensils, in one day, yet manage to leave the utensil dirty!
All in all, highly dynamic in nature, very "hard" working, always on the run (hurry to another place)!
Presenting The Indian Kaam Wali...!!! All stand and bow (or otherwise, fcking do the entire housework on your own)!
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