Have We Made the Rewarding Choice?

We only have one life but many possible careers. Challenging ourselves to find one that truly fits is one of the most rewarding choices we make as adults.

When I read those lines, I just thought it’s so apt…. not just for myself but for many in general… and the irony is with the passage of time our spark gets blur… I was talking to a person who is doing his PHD in applied mathematics from IIT R one among the most reputed college in India. After talking to this person I just felt that his spark has been subsided to an unbelievable extent. This is just one story…. Similar numerous we encounter whenever I talk to more people….

This person when completed his +2 was keen to get through IITs for graduation degree in Engineering, but couldn’t make his way through cut throat competition. Eventually landed up doing B.Sc Honors is Mathematics. Later his dream shifted to join IT industry. But this person landed up doing the MSc in applied Mathematics. Dream of joining IT industry got encapsulated in packaging of reluctance and lost its existence. And finally this person made his way for his PHD and got through IIT R. This phase can be considered as re-entering and re-affirming the belief in his dream, complete revival….! I know this guy since almost a year or two, always found his energy level high.

Recently I was talking to this person and he told me that he is about to finish his thesis. But there is a slack time between submission of thesis and getting the degree. This slack period is about six months…!! Consequences, which he narrated, were many organizations they don’t consider the doctorate-ship unless one produces the degree certificate…. Which I really doubt; as most of the organizations who visit campus and offer jobs when kids are still in final semester or much far off. Other is financial reason, mass of middle class face this constraint. These all things are acceptable to me…

What surprised me the most was he has an offer form Amity to teach engineering graduates….!!! I am sure he would have not aimed for that and to teach kids in second tier engineering school, one need not to earn a PHD to do that… I am not saying whether teaching is bad or second tier schools are bad. But to do something where you are under valuating your skills and potential is something which needs to be re-thought and addressed carefully. Putting the umbrella or reasoning and blaming don’t help. We made our choice very much by our self. One wrong choice leads not only to zero score but also the negative marking in accumulation. In any kind of favorable or unfavorable days one need to keep the spark alive and shiny. Once that gets dim and faded our eyes start loosing the dream of life worth living.

No factor which exists outside effect our spark it just we as an individual flicker it. If someone is mediocre, its not that everyone else around is genius. Rather that person has completely agreed and accepted the fact s/he is that… with limiting the immense growth horizons.

Go confidently in direction of your dreams…!!