My Father Is An Engineer So Am I

September 2, 2012 | Filed under: College Life,Your Opinion | Posted by: BADRI NARAYAN

1 : “I shall prepare for the IIT JEE. I want a degree from IIT. My father also passed out from IIT.”

2 : “Oh! That’s great, so you want to become an engineer then IIT is one of the good choices.”

3 : “What is an engineer?”

Good morning, this is the “Real Situation” reporting live from the whole of India.

A bright father and a poorly informed, confused son is the ultimate combination in India.

India is driven crazy by academics, but that should be the positive side of India. Unfortunately, when it is confused with the “Legacy” issues it becomes a disaster.

It is a wild misconception that people want an engineer or a doctor at home and force their children to study so. They are not concerned with the degree; they are actually concerned with the legacy. Once we have an engineer at home, so will his off springs become one.

Things needed to be done are a bit of grooming, pressurizing and he will be an engineer some day…………

So our legacy remains as of being an engineer.

Apart from the field of engineering, we have a family with a jaw dropping twenty two lawyers (courtesy KBC), actors who can win national awards are sons and daughters of Lifetime award winners and just to go to the base, a property dealer’s son is again a property dealer.

Can’t this world be a bit creative and rather than thinking about legacy why don’t they think about what that boy/girl wants to do. This problem is prevalent in India and so does it show up in the world statistics.

Even if a micro percent of this population were groomed well enough in sports we could have possibly won all the medals in any National or International games being all gold. We do not need overtake China on the count of Engineers because we surely cannot do that in case of Olympics total medals leave alone gold.

What are so many engineers going to do. Oh yes!!… I know, create unemployment.

Although we might say it’s an indifferent world but it is the one that creates all the difference in our lives. We go by the norms set by our society and so does everybody follow it. Breaking away from the normal woven path is difficult and sometimes confusing too, as some force themselves to think that the path they are in is the way of following their heart. Sometimes it becomes difficult to identify your true talent.

In India, we should try and not follow the legacy pattern. This pattern leads to utmost confusion in the individual himself and he follows a path he least likes to. We need people who firstly identify the child’s talent, let their children do something different from the norms set, believe in them for whatever they do and help them while in crisis or confusion.

Change is required in the way of thinking, acting and believing……..

In believing that

“Change always comes with bearing gifts”- Price Pritchett

24 Responses to My Father Is An Engineer So Am I

Very well written… and equally true.

Nishchay Sharma
October 24, 2010 at 11:13 pm
i know.. so many of us are here just because our parents wanted us to be!

anwesha
October 24, 2010 at 11:29 pm
outstanding piece of writing…and absolutely true…

Angana Das
October 25, 2010 at 12:12 am
We should certainly let our Children be Free. Let them decide what they want to be.What they want to study or not.We should only guide them not force them to become Doctor Engineer lawyer and so on. Let them decide this for themselves.

Dr Ashok Kumar Singhal
October 25, 2010 at 6:30 am
thank you all….@ahok sir absolutely true….and I think you are doing what is actually required……

Badri
October 25, 2010 at 10:47 am
sahi keh raha hai yaar, mere papa bhi engineer hai
hamare khandan me do hi profession hai:
1)male- engineer
2)female- teacher
kya kar sakte hai bhai

pranay bhardwaj
October 25, 2010 at 11:05 am
nice starting….lolz…..amazing writing….

Atia
October 25, 2010 at 4:11 pm
i donno about engineers but this is definitely true for doctors……..this is not about being engineer or doctors it can be ne profession where parents want their kids to become their replica in their profession without understanding what a kid want to become…..

abhi
October 26, 2010 at 12:38 am
we should not force the kids to do wat we are doing or wat we wish to do. sometimes parents try to complete their own dream via their children as they was unable to do what they wish to coz of some reasons. but is makes no sense and it ruins kids life. one day or other they will curse the parent for everything they will suffer ahead coz of no interest in the field they are.

we should allow them to follow what they want as per their interest. there is a scope in every field, if every kid is a engineer or doctor there will be nobody to help them.

even a doctor or a engineer use the products manufactured by other companies. they cannot do their work without the tools and equipments, so there is always a need of different profession and if one chose a path by his / her own decision i bet he / she will do best in that rather if asked by parent to do something else..

ritu
October 27, 2010 at 3:06 am
@atia and pranay thanks…….@ritu very true, most of the parents see their reflection in their children so force their dream on them and they are left with no option but to follow……..@abhi ya very true doctors engineers and lawyers too….

Badri
October 27, 2010 at 5:53 pm
what would you be if not an engineer?

Anne Rhea
October 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm
What type

Shin Khan
October 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm
which career/profession would you undertake if not an engineer?

Anne Rhea
October 27, 2010 at 6:34 pm
there r many it depends on ur intrest

Rajashekhar Savadi
October 27, 2010 at 6:35 pm
You are very right.One should ask really and seriously what they want to do and want to be one day and do all to achieve the Goal. If not possible make it a hobby and excel in it beside your profession you had to go for willing or unwillingly. A sad thing but things happen in life we can not avoid them but just face them best to our abilities.

Drashok Kumar Singhal
October 27, 2010 at 6:37 pm
hey i m also preparing for iit jee

Sumit Mishra
October 27, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Good How are you doing it ? caoching Institute? Describe the best way to prepare for it and be successful with good ranki?Ifanswer is too lenthy Email me :drashoksinghal@hotmail.com

Drashok Kumar Singhal
October 27, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Go with your own interest.

Vikash Anand
October 27, 2010 at 6:39 pm
No doubt about it.But always try to get the best out of your self and of the opportunities provided to you. Do not ever forget GOD HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES.Keep the morol up in all you do. You eill succseed.

Drashok Kumar Singhal
October 27, 2010 at 6:40 pm
@anna rhea a very good question but no one ever gets enough time to find the answer to that question….by the time we realise we are good at something or we define our area of interest whoossh!!….time just flies and you open your eyes to just see where you have landed…..honestly if you ask me I still do not know what to do in life and why am I doing engineering………

Badri
October 30, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Have also seen people taking CSE/ECE just because they are most preferred or whatever stupid reasons people talk about..and many many times students have no interest whatsoever in their fields
and branches like MCE , environmental etc are infamous for just no reason…..matlab how sheep like people are

Babita Naagar
September 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm
- yep! But perhaps they are not at fault. If in the first place they don’t know why they have to become engineers, how are they supposed to decide which branch to take!
  
  Anwesha Bose
  September 4, 2012 at 4:53 pm

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