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Take up engineering only if
you have the aptitude
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By Sarasija.A: To do or not to do: Take up
engineering only if you have the aptitude and interest. Or else it could be
disastrous
A common dilemma that many
twenty-year olds face on completing their engineering degrees and landing a job
is 'What next?' Four years of college had gone by in a blissful haze without
much thought to whether they actually liked what they were doing; their job now
financed their Saturday night parties with friends, a big screen TV and weekend
road trips. But once the glamour of financial independence wears off, the
emptiness comes roaring in. Most are stuck in jobs they hate and find themselves
lost where nothing in their life makes sense any more. And then realisation
strikes: ‘I never should have pursued engineering.’
After making this grave error of
enrolling in engineering colleges as the most natural thing to do after high
school, they work hard assiduously in clearing exams and acing interviews to
land jobs that they detest now. They finally wake up to the fact that this
wasn't what they were meant to be doing with their lives. Then comes the quest
for the perfect career – which isn't just hard to find, but often also requires
jumping through several fairly narrow hoops to enforce a career change.
At 17, a student cannot be expected
to make a choice of career that exactly suits them, but parents can avert
possible disaster. Are their kids actually interested in
Math/Physics/Programming? Are their analytical abilities quite remarkable? Do
they tinker around, disassembling the stereo? Parents need to give a second
thought, (and possibly a third) before pushing kids to be engineers.
As for the kids themselves, in a
society obsessed with churning out engineers like hot vadas , a little
forethought can go a long way in making sure that when we sign up to be
engineers, we aren't engineering a disaster. We all want that perfect job that
we love to wake up and head off to every morning. With a bit of caution before
making our career choices and pledging away four years of life, we can find it
much sooner and with a lot less hardship.
The writer is a student, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore.
( Courtesy:
http://www.thehindu.com )
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