The Decision : Job vs Career

Jeetu sat on the bench. A lot of thoughts were striking in his minds. After all, he has to make decisions for his life. For the past few days, he was in a dilemma. A question was disturbing him “Whether to do a job or to continue learning in his field of passion?”. In the last semester of his Engineering, had a decent package of big software MNC in hand, good college grades and within a couple of months, he was going to graduate with Bachelor's degree from well-recognized college. After graduating, he was going to join the company. Everything was sorted, but he was uncomfortable and feeling something was being missed. When he joined Engineering, the aim was to complete an Engineering degree with good grades and landing into good MNC with a decent package. Today it was happening but he was not happy. There were a lot of changes in the past 4 years which transformed an unconfident teenager to the confident youngster who loves challenges and doesn't fear anything. The company  was paying enough to fulfill his basic needs and provide luxuries but not well enough to feed his passion and provide the adventures which can really satisfy him.  

This is not a story of Jeetu but the story of every Engineering student. When they are teenagers, some of them follow instructions of their parents, some of them are fascinated by luxurious life of people around them. By then, they are just delighted by outer material things and can’t see the things under the picture. They do hard work in higher secondary schooling to get admission to good Engineering college. They complete Engineering for 4 years with good grades. Going through the long process of 6 years and realizing this is not so me or the thing that I want is quite depressing. Do this long process of 6 years completely go to waste? Definitely no, not at all. Engineering is a really very beautiful process. In these years students not only get the degree but learn a lot during these degree years. 

The very first thing that comes to anyone's mind when talking about Engineers is "JUGADU". Yes, Engineers are really Jugadu and they are really proud of it. In Engineering college life, students come across many situations where there is no conventional solution to solve a problem. What we Engineers do to solve them - A very obvious Jugaad which do not only solves the problem but also in the most feasible and convenient way. 

Management is another thing that is learned best here. Engineers do a lot of technical stuff, flourish hobbies, playing games, spending a lot of time doing hangouts with friends, arranging various non-technical events and also participating in it and with all these things maintaining 75% attendance in all subjects throughout the semester is really challenging thing and still these students unconsciously manage all these things. The best instance of Management quality comes during exam times. Two days earlier, even the proper syllabus of subjects is not known to many students still they manage to not only pass the exams but to also get a good score. It's magic, isn't it? 

Another best part where Engineers are pretty good is following deadlines. The job may small or large and the time is given to it is less or more, deadlines are followed. It may be assignment submission or project completion. It is okay if a lot of time is there to complete the task and even better if very less time is there to perform task, task will get in any way by proper approach or any Jugaad.  Engineer won't give any chance to complain about not following the deadline, but again there is another case, quality about work is there or not? But this is a later part.    

If there is a problem, just figure it out not to make an issue about it but figure out to solve it. This problem-solving approach is another great quality. It may be finding bugs in projects or any real-world problems. Problem-solving is part that really interests Engineers.

With all these qualities Engineers demand some adventure and thrill. Even though need to do a lot of work with machines but work gets boring when it is completely monotonous. Some challenges, some adventure should be there. Again that's the reason Engineers leaving desk jobs which don't feed them challenges and use their make use of their potential.  

In various fields like Business, Glamour, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Social services. We see more personalities from Engineering background compare to other backgrounds such as medical or Commerce. Root for this lies in 6 years process through which Engineers go. It is the process of self-realization. Self-realization about their interests and qualities. With all these qualities discussed above, why would any individual prefer to monotonous desk jobs. Definitely he will seek for challenging profiles. 

   An hour passed, but Jeetu was still on the bench. Even after thinking for this much time he was unable to reach the conclusion and make a firm decision. He went through the process and when he is aware of his skill set and potential, he needs to take the decision. There was no doubt the job was good and he will get a good salary but he also knew he can do better than this job. Various fields were there where he could make use of his skills and make more money. let Jeetu take his own decision about his career but what about you. What do you feel about yourself? Have you ever thought about you and your skill set? your potential and your interest? or made a decision just because everyone else is doing it so even I should do the same. Its time to think and decide....

- Mr. Mayur Labhshetwar

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