Work and Email

Feb 14, 2005

It’s amazing what an important role email plays in today’s work environment. We take it so much for granted. In the last 30 minutes I have replied to 4 work queries. Clients write to me all the time and I reply to them all the time. On an average I exchange 10-15 emails everyday.

When I got the Internet connection back in 1997, many people regularly used my computer to send and read emails. I was the only one at that time who didn’t have an email account. So I created one at Lycos.com. I remember I sent my first email to my girlfriend’s brother’s girlfriend’s best friend who was visiting her brother in the US — my girlfriend had jotted down her email on my notepad. She gave a nice reply and we became such good friends that even when my girlfriend and I broke up, we kept communicating.

Then another friend told me I must already have had an email account from my ISP. She gave instructions on the phone on how to configure Outlook Express. The rest, as they say, is history.

95% of my work happens through email. I’m happy to use it :-).