As i read through papers on the morning of a calm sunday , I came across the engineering admission column which took me back to my days when i used to visit counselling website daily to check the status of engineering seats in various colleges and to gather information abt colleges. those breath taking questions in the engineering, those nervous moments of counselling and the hefty competion where i was left behind 300 people for a mere 0.70 marks, those sad moments when I saw irrelevant people taking IT as major, Finally i became an engineer and now working as a consultant in a very reputed firm in India. Though I am happy that I work in the field which I wanted to, I am also sad as of why my field has dragged a lot of potential engineers in the other fields by its fancy pays and hi-tech lifes.I turn around my cubicle and I find bright civil engineers,production engineers, mechanical engineers from one of the best institutes of India where getting admission is like a gift sitting and programming. Why did they join Civil engineering just to sit and do some certification in Java or is it be there travelling in a software company bus. Those who are supposed to build great bridges and revolutions in the Indian Industry are sitting there finding out logic for technical problems.
When I sit and think as of why are these people leaving what they have learnt whole heartedly and got a gold medal in it are sitting and coding, Only two things stuck my mind
1. Money and Fame
2. Hi-fi life
3. A Trip to abroad free of cost
I felt these are the two factors that are driving them to this field, they feel that they get recognised in the society if they are called as a Software Engineer and they get hefty money as salary which their father only got when he retired.
Because of this hefty money they try to have a hi-fi life which never belongs to them and ultimately they spoil the society in which they live in
This is the most important driving factor which driving the whole of engineers to this industry " A Trip to abroad" a word which is more often called as "Onsite". Well I dont know how people see onsite as, everybody who joins an IT company wants to go to onsite no matter they have the skill, competency, talent, communication, nothing they look out for. they bluntly ask for a onsite
Because of this enormous recuirting by the IT companies a lot of talented engineers are lost by the other industries and the environment in an IT company is totally screwed by some irrelevant guys from other streams, the whole of engineering methodology is lost, Hope this recession makes a correction in the recruiting of really skilled people by the IT companies
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I do agree and also disagree with what thoughts are expressed. It is true that we see people from different domain choose some branch of engg. and finally turn up to be programmers. Infact there are people who take up engg due to various reasons which was never of their interest but what we call part of the status.
But we must also not forget, there are people who had lost the battle of getting an engg seat in the main strems like CS, IT. But get a chance to make a comeback and are upto the mark at their jobs despite having come from another stream.
All that makes a difference apart from the qualifications you hold is with what interest or passion you do your job. And the qualities you develop as an engineer.
This not only involves expertise in programming but it does mould the man outlook towards life completely.
Every individual who is blessed with this atmosphere should utilize it to his best to make his and his people's life worth living.
This topic s an eye opener to all the engineers out there which will make them think are they worth to be where they are. Probably the souls will get up and enlighten themselves.
This is a good concern raised by the blogger.
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