How is IT

I graduated from the university with the degree of Bachelor of Engineer in 2008 with computers as major. It was the year of global economic crisis. Thus, many of the IT companies, who had recruited big flocks of students from campuses, held back their offers. At that point we realised all of a sudden that we are producing disproportional number of engineers out of our universities.

The second thing that came into picture was that a major chunk of these engineers was joining IT industry. The only single motive behind it was the money for most of the people. I consider myself to be fortunate enough for choosing IT industry out of my own interest and not for the digits in the salary.

The matter of fact is that the salaries in IT are puffed up numbers. As compared to other industries the salaries in IT in India might be marginally on higher edge. Especially in recent days the gap is very little, if any. However being in wrong industry for a wrong reason costs a lot. I see many of the frustrated people around me each passing day. The most unfortunate part is that these people come to know hat they are in wrong place after spending a few years in IT. But even at this stage they are unsure of what is their skill and what is their liking.

In my opinion our education system is to be blamed for that. We are never taught about how to choose a career. We are hardly given any opportunity to discover ourselves, our hidden talents. For most of us our career is directly mapped to the grades that we obtain in the decisive exams. However, expecting this kind of luxury in the country struggling for the literacy rate of 74% is unfair.

The youth of my country should change the approach in this aspect. Discovering new fields and being aligned to the stream of one's interest always yields fruitful results. There was a famous film called “3 idiots” woven around the same message which rocked box office a few years ago. This attitude of following one's liking is what we should definitely learn from western world. I hope that the steps of economic reforms being taken by the new government of my country would create enough lucrative opportunities for the people to follow their hearts instead of following the flock.