Cobbler's son becomes a cobbler - 'Career Decisions' unnecessary?

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  Rupam Das

  Engineering is Different. I am sure 95% of the Engineer's fathers are not engineers. They cant be because 22 years back we did not have more than some 2000 engineering seats per state!
  
  Engineering is easy. You at least give yourself a chance for a job! 2 years in US. Good Dowry for boys , less dowry for girls if they ever managed to have come back from US/Aus.
  
  What are the other common professions you suggest that ensures good job prospect? It will be interesting to hear from you.
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  sauravgoswami

  Below thought defeats the purpose of Engineering, unfortunately Engineers passing out they dont know the defination of Engineer,and our socio-econimic background do not allow them to think in that direction.History suggests we have been dominated and ruled and still we are doing the same,Corporates pay us handsomely and make us human-bots.
  Due to rise in population as well as change in generation does not gaurantee an Engineers child will be a fine engineer,eg Gavaskar's son didnt end-up like his Father.Only our appraoch can change this scenario.
  
  

  Engineering is easy. You at least give yourself a chance for a job! 2 years in US. Good Dowry for boys , less dowry for girls if they ever managed to have come back from US/Aus.

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Looks like we've two issues being discussed here -
  

  • Why our education system/ colleges fail at producing good engineers?
  • Why aren't students able to make good career decisions?

  These two are entirely different issues and shouldn't be mixed (IMHO). But given the title of the thread, I'd focus on the second.
  Students aren't able to decide which career path is better for them because they aren't exposed to ideas. These days, our brains are so engaged in trivial activities that there's no time to really think about 'future' or exposing minds to several career options. "Follow the heard" mentality is going up and people apparently have 'good lives' with it. It's also true that a LOT of people end up frustrated in their professional lives because of not making decisions when it mattered.
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  all engineers from any branch are forced into IT sector by the college they study cos they want to boast of having 100% placement this is killing engineers to the core
  
  PS: my point of view no direct targets here
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  zaveri

  the word "engineering" has seem to be evolved into a brand, which stands for promised financial security.
  
  in short it means to say , that if you choose engineering as your career, then you will never go hungry, let alone becoming rich.
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  Ramani Aswath

  For example, a cobbler's son becomes a cobbler. A teacher's son becomes a teacher. A King's son becomes a King.

  Occasionally a carpenter's son becomes God as does a cowherd's son.
  
  Choice is the individual's.
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  Ramani Aswath

  For example, a cobbler's son becomes a cobbler

  Occasionally, a cobbler's daughter becomes an IITian!
  See a saga of sacrifice by a father.
  
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  Salute you sir you are the greatest father in this world