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If you haven\u2019t been living under a rock, then you would be well aware of our country\u2019s intimate romance with engineering. If the situation gets any worse, our dearest prime minister, Narendra Modi might just have to declare engineering as the national career of India. Most average Indian mothers think at least once in their lives, \u201cMera ladla beta bade hoke engineer banega<\/em>\u201d. Now the fact that the \u2018ladla beta\u2019 is barely able to add 2 and 2 together, and has a flair for becoming a DJ, is just a minor technicality. What are engineering businessmen for?<\/p>\n Yes, I call them businessmen because that\u2019s exactly what they are- businessmen. Their only concern in life is to go for a swim in a huge pile of money (a la Scrooge McDuck). Why should they be bothered about the kind of \u201cengineers\u201d that their institution is producing, and whether those engineers even know the difference between \u2018torque\u2019 and \u2018momentum\u2019? Everything is peachy as long as they have the golden \u2018engineer\u2019 tag on them. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I don\u2019t have a personal vendetta against engineering. I feel that it is too a noble profession like many others. But the larger part of the so-called engineers are the by-products of a mass sheep producing machine (sheep-mator 3000), crying \u201cmba mba<\/em>\u201d instead of \u201cmah mah<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So if you too have been dazed by the \u201cIIT dream\u201d, it\u2019s time for me to give you a harsh dose of reality. Here are some of the most popular myths about a career in engineering that have lived on for way too long:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #1 I am guaranteed to get a high package job. <\/strong><\/p>\n Ah, my favorite! Many of you na\u00efve souls have the following formula in mind:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Step 1: Take admission in XYZ college of engineering.<\/p>\n Step 2: Survive long enough to get a B.Tech degree.<\/p>\n Step 3: Score a swanky job.<\/p>\n Step 4: Be RICH!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wow. That sounds like a super amazing formula, doesn\u2019t it? I mean, all of us have heard the story of their cousin\/friend\/neighbour who graduated from his B.Tech, and secured that sexy 15 lakh package. Didn\u2019t that make you want to jump off your bed and just dive into your books? Only if life were so simple! What most of us don\u2019t realize is that those dream packages are only secured by a select few, the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the institutions. Most engineering graduates have to content themselves with a 3.5 lakh package, offered by mass recruiters (a.k.a the saving grace of the average engineer). Agreed that the growth rate in engineering is good, and many that start off at 3.5 are earning big bucks after a few years, but that is NOT A GUARANTEED THING. Your growth would always depend on how you perform at your job. You won\u2019t be visited by a career fairy at night, who will tranform your package with one flick of the wand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #2 Engineering should always be followed by an MBA.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fill in the blank:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n IIT + _____________= $$$<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I won\u2019t even wait for you to answer this one. We all know that the answer is IIM. When the words \u2018IIT\u2019 and \u2018IIM\u2019 appear in the same sentence, Indians\u2019 hearts skip a beat. You won\u2019t deny when I say that this one can easily qualify as the \u201cIndian dream\u201d. This \u201cdream\u201d is also the perpetuator of yet another common engineering myth, that MBA is the next logical step after engineering. Since B.Tech+MBA is considered such a solid combination in our country, B.Tech graduates don\u2019t even think twice before enrolling themselves for CAT coaching. Just try to find logic in this statement, \u201cEngineering ki hai isliye main manager banunga<\/em>\u201d. I mean, if you have studied engineering, why don\u2019t you become, I don\u2019t know, an ENGINEER? True engineers are those mythical creatures that are working in technical fields such as dams, factories, petroleum refineries, etc. If your ultimate goal is to hold a plush managerial job in an American MNC, then why waste your time with engineering at all? It is a sad affair to see our country in dire need of engineers when half of the population comes with that tag.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #3<\/strong> I\u2019ll get setlled right after I graduate.<\/strong><\/p>\n This one goes hand in hand with the package one. Think if you\u2019ve ever heard these lines,\u201dBeta bus kisi tarah B.Tech kar lo, uske baad to life set hai.<\/em>\u201d Of course, because top companies are just flocking around to give million dollar jobs to every tom, dick and harry, right? They obviously have a magical factory where jobs get created every minute, waiting for their \u2018engineer in shining armour\u2019 to come and take them. Why would they care about your calibre, your performance or your personality? I know you are not dumb, you can sense the sarcasm. No, there\u2019s no magical world out there where there are jobs in abundance. With the boom of engineers in our country, the demand and supply ratio is seriously screwed. If you go to a random street and shout, \u201cWho here is an engineer?\u201d, you are guaranteed to see a lot of raised hands. In such a situation, thinking that you would be guaranteed a well-paying job right out of college is a very faulty assumption. 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