AfterI joined my engineering course, there were times when people told me that I was on the wrong place. Not that I was bad at studies but they thought I would have been better in one other field. Somehow I didnt think it that way. There is always some difference between avocation and vocation. After joining the numerous s/w people I realised that it is not really always what you see. The deeper you probe, the less you seem to understand. Unlike my earlier belief of this place being a creative hub, I came to know how much important it is to know different sources of solutions. Unlike elsewhere (or so I think) when we get in some problem we don't try to be the first one to solve it but hope that somebody else somewhere must have faced the same problem and solved it. (I don't blame anybody. I myself am a part of this) So at some point of time you actually start thinking that if creation is not way to job satisfaction, then what is!
I was jolted back to reality from this thought by a particular conversation today. We don't work for job satisfaction. We work for hike, promotion and then again hike and so on.
That reminded me why I did not pursue my hobby as my career. There were two reasons actually -
1 I was afraid to fail there. A somewhat sensitive area.
2 I didn't want to convert something that I enjoyed to something that was a part of the monotonous everyday life.
Job was never the endpoint. Job was something that would give the independence and means to pursue somehting that I enjoyed. It in itself was never the end.
6 comments:
you have just hard hitted me with news from real world
This is my point of view.
You might develop a diff opinion.
I will ask you after another year :)
Well its different strokes for different people.I won't say its a view shared by the majority of people here in IT-BHU ,who are obsessed with the rat race of getting placements or for that matter the academic scenario in India with academics becoming the "be-all" "end-all" for students.
But there must be more to life than chasing down every academic high.
You know what, you are one hundred percent right here... i couldn't have put it better myself....
@ jamzz
to tell you the truth, we all have been thru tht phase, a part of the rat race, trying and hoping to get the best. In fact we still are in some way or the other. Lets not close our eyes to the truth. But yet, when u join the real world and realise this is the life you are going to live forever, you wud want something more than just tht.
and that is whr the something other than academics come into picture :)
@anks
:) am glad you agree..
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