Today, I am not going to give you pointers or advice
on this topic. Instead, I will narrate two stories and you are free to choose
the one you like!
All characters appearing in
this work are real. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is absolutely
intentional.
Neha was good in academics. She
excelled in engineering exams with an average of +75% in all her semesters. She
was one of the first to get placed when a battery of IT firms lined up at her campus. Three month down, she knew she did not enjoy the job. She was clueless on how to meaningfully contribute. Day after
day, she wrote codes monotonously. But one fateful morning, she decided to stop compromising. She
sat down and identified the gaps which held her from being good at her job.
She picked up couple of hobby projects relevant to her work, read up on
internet and enrolled for courses. In six months time, she had done 3 hobby projects
and gained deeper understanding of the programming thought process!
At work, she probed her clients on user experience when her
colleagues didn't go beyond required specifications. She got to the point where
she understood what problem was she addressing and for whom was she solving it.
With a holistic understanding, she suggested a number of design changes to
enhance user experience. The client got mighty impressed and recommended
her to be part of the design team. More success followed and the trend
continues till today!
Our second protagonist, Rohit was an excellent engineering student too. He never
bothered to top the class, but, always managed to be in top 30 percentile. Automotives
and electronics were his favorite subjects. He would get to the depth of the
subjects he loved. Reference books, videos, projects…he would leave no stone
unturned to satisfy his appetite for learning. But, for the subjects he didn't like, he just scraped through! By the end of four years, he had a
healthy number of projects and above average academics. IT companies came in, and he got placed on the very first day. But, life had other
plans.
Two months before campus placements, his friend had casually
asked for his CV and forwarded to his neighbour who worked for a reputed core engineering company. As luck would have it, this company called him for an interview on the very next day of his campus placement. A written test, three rounds of technical interview and he bagged the job! The
senior manager who took his final interview categorically said that they were impressed by his projects and subject knowledge. After, three years of outstanding experience, Rohit moved on to
pursue his post graduation in USA and landed up with a lucrative job in his
favorite automotive company. And, he hasn't looked back since then!
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