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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

So Far I have not touched any serious or sensitive issues. Today I have decided to take a plunge and write about my other side. In the next few lines people will come to know about the transformation of a youth to an Engineer.

When I was a kid my parents expected me to get First Rank. They were least bothered about how I studied and performed, all they wanted was I must do better than the rest in my class. For some parents I was a integral part of the term " REST OF THE CLASS" . That means when they tell their son/daughter that they should do better than others in their class, I never failed to be in that crowd of "OTHERS".

Even after completing my undergrad my parents still think that I might for once succeed in coming first in the university. My parents " We have great trust in you son, you still have a chance, you can enroll for some masters course of your interest and can come out with flying colors" 26 yrs of knowing me still they have not given up the dream. I have done everything possible to shatter their trust about me excelling in studies, but all efforts in vain.

Then came the year of my board exams. They committed a big blunder of moving to a house where a separate study room can be provided for me. It was a makeshift bedroom for me most of the time. If they had actually known what was happening behind the closed doors of my study room, one thing is for sure, my younger brother would never be let to close his study room door.

Every damn guy around me was talking about going into computer engineering. During the long thinking sessions in my room I actually tried to simulate the future.
My thinking " Everybody wants to go into software line, what if in 5 years time this field hits a saturation point. By the time ppl realize that there is no scope or entry space for more software engineers it would be too late. So I will take a different engineering course and when the IT field hits a dead end other engineers would be of great demand." So I decided to do something different from what the rest of the class aspired. "Ennoda thinking ellam mayiraa pochu"

In India it would have been easy for any discipline engineer to get into IT industry. I ended up doing my undergrad studies in Singapore and became a Mechanical Engineer. To my dismay all the jobs available at the time of my graduation was for computer engineers. Damn Damn Damn! what have I done, wasted 4 yrs of my life doing engineering and not knowing any programming languages. Damn!! I was frantically looking for some short term software courses so that I can give a shot at IT jobs. Short term crash courses were big time expensive ones. Then one fine day got a letter " YOU ARE APPOINTED AS A MECHANICAL ENGINEER IN XYZ PTE LTD" If this didn't happen then most likely I would have found my way to some CALL CENTERS in India. Call center ROCKS as it was the only hope I had before finding my present job.

posted by Nutty @ 8:23 PM