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Career Image1This is one of a topic I was long thriving to post, but today someone  completed my pile of reasons to blog it down & provided an invisible push to put my thoughts in the closet of words. It may specifically portray a Mid-Income Indian Society.

Since childhood, I have seen and understood what peer pressure is all about, what expectations your family have from you, what is the difference between a real world and a world explored by Alice. Always being a part of it (thanks to my family background), I never could relate myself to any of the fictional characters present during my days of TV watching. I was somehow more bedazzled by Achievers, Scientists, Detectives, Nobel Prize Winners etc. (may be fictional TV series but more of ‘logical’ realities) than Fairies, Gods, Superstars (real yet virtual – hard to draw a line through), Kings etc. Mysteries were more thoughtful/interesting to me than Magic. I started reading about Bermuda Triangle & the Lost Ships, Pyramids & Stones and what not when I was in 14-15 years old. They kept me awake at nights and when I turned 18 I devised my own Big Bang Theory which later, I opposed (after 2 years of wisdom gaining). Anyways, keeping this topic a little away from my biography, I meant to say is I knew what I can/could do, and though I love(d) speaking (as in on stage anchoring, debates …), sports, creativity with art and drawings … but was always a little biased towards Science & Technology.

During college days, I heard a lot about Brain Drain. When I was preparing for IIT (which, I couldn’t get through) I heard a lot of brain migrating to Western & more developed countries and I always wondered that is it really such a big issue? Do potential students really have a choice? And, if they possess certified intellectual brain then why to question their wisdom of choosing the right niche. With sand changing its side in my hour glass, I understood it may be a drain … but the other aspect that people forget, or often may get un-noticed is the problem of intersecting career goals or indecisive dreams. This is the thing I wish to spotlight in this post. This is what a meeting with someone made me realize that I have to post my opinion on (without being offensive), rather humble opinions!

This is based on real case studies, my friends, my colleagues chit-chat, and social networking + someone. India is surely a cultivable land of crops and intellects. We are proud to be looked upon & quoted as hardworking and intelligent work force. But how decisive are we, when it comes to a simple question – What to do to make a living? With potential wise work force comes it’s flip side friend “competition”. Needless to say this competition is getting deadly (not just a metaphor) as years are passing by. Everyone is readily trying to move up the corporate/commercial ladder at any costs. Students and young graduates are confused for their interests may be diverse but the scope of jobs is limited and confined to Software, Outsourcing B/I/K(PO), Doctors, Architects etc. but what about the Artists, Writers, Potters, Singers, Actors etc. People do have interest in Arts but migrate to Commerce as it is paid well, and will earn you a good living. You complete your Bachelors in Science, and then move to MBA in Finance just like gaining a pile of degrees and certificates and yet uncertain what to do in life. With no offences to anyone, its hard to understand that how can ‘just’ attaining a degree makes you believe what is it like working in this very domain?

This is in no context to the ones who are switching domains to move up the ladder – Bachelors in Computers for Software Engineer, and then after some years MBA in IT/Marketing/Finance to move to a Managerial or CXO post. This is understandable for you have enjoyed being the one you studied for before moving on in life & ladder. But to the ones, who at the age of 22 wanted to pursue Commerce, and joined B.Com or BBA and when asked to join a company, appeared for Software Companies as Engineers with may be a ‘6 months course’ in their profile highlighted to overlook the cross domain background. Ask a child before he joins college, what you wish to do and the unanimous answer is “earn money” and specially with engineers of all domains (Computers, Mechanical, Electronics, IT, Electrical etc.) – now, at the end of college, they are all united to work for software companies for they generate vacancies & pay well much faster than any company of ‘other domains’. The result is no matter you did Engineering in Mechanical or Chemical, you will soon be somewhere in front of a computational box writing a piece of code or something. There are very few people who actually do and pursue what they wanted and dreamed of. This is all due to media, corporate and society stereotyping culture! We all say and publicize that there are millions of opportunities to an individual with any expertise but in practical world revenue generating companies are like black holes which at the end suck you in as corporate controlled and tech driven labor.

My opinion is simple – If you want to be someone, be someone rather than finding an escape route or a short cut to fame & name. Software firms need determined workforce and not people who did computer course but actually wanted to be a choreographer. I know life is tough to be lived upon on certain conditions, but being 22 years old at least certify a ripe brain with ambitions!

Cheers,
- Rishi

Note:
I had a word with the same someone and I owe her a small apology for I have inadvertently judged a book by the covers (may be was less hopeful of getting a chance to flip the pages through or may be in a hurry) or may be I was a little more inquisitive & responsive in profiling. Anyways apropos the petite[Fr.] discussion, I wish to add a different context of thought as in India the word struggle pays you neither a cent nor any respect. No matter what the profession is, prefix it with ‘struggling’ and you are way out of league & specially if it has to do with media/creativity. I agree that finding options may include over-powering your own interests for a practical cause or benefits in our money driven society as opposed to the fainted value-driven culture.


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