I Yam Engineer

Oh yes, that’s exactly how more than half of them introduce themselves as.

Wait, are you sneering at the grammar? Most of them don’t even know how you pronounce the word ‘engineering’. If you ask them why they chose to pursue this course, you’ll hardly find anyone saying, “I want to become an engineer”, instead, the answers you’ll come across would be “it’s the cheapest of all courses now” (I’m cuing at the YSR’s free education disaster in Andhra Pradesh), “had no better thing to do”, “because it’s a four years’ course”, “my parents wanted me to join a big college” (oh yes, arts colleges are not considered to be big now), “all of my friends are doing engineering”, “the girl I had crush on since forever is in this college”, although the list goes on and on, the closest sane reply you could get is, “I want to get a well-paid job” and trust me, after the end of those interesting four years, they would ask themselves “What the hell was I thinking?!”

After a rollercoaster ride of four years involving ragging, affairs, scholarships, break-ups, practical classes, fests, meaningless internals tests, projects (that most of them actually buy), 40-page external exams, what it really boils down to is to make a decision of what next?

                                                                           

And how they make the decision?  Simple – if they have money plus, they’ll usually opt for MS in US or Australia or Canada or any place, whatsoever, out of India, if they have less money the default choice would be MBA (only god knows what exactly runs through their mind that they go for a business specialized course after doing a technical degree), and finally if they have job (no matter what engineering course they might have done, you’ll find them looking for a software job!), they obediently dedicate their whole lives either bragging or complaining about pay-checks. There are also those who gain lust for technical stuff and opt for M-tech.

But there are always few odd-ones out who try to give their lives a meaning by doing what they love. Among them, however, there are some who only count the hours they didn’t sleep – what they do during that time no one has any idea!!

If they have nothing? Well, an engineer always finds something to do, be it doing any crash courses, applying for government jobs and so on so forth!

P.S. I’m an engineer myself! :D