Staying up after 12 is taking its toll on me once again. heres a bit of,um, thought
Its amazing what 'Choice' does to you in Life. Its like all the junta do the same damn things for a few years and then finally what they 'choose' to become in the 'next' stage brings so much change to what they do and what they will become.
It is true that most junta do not really have or WANT more than 1 choice, but imagine the magnitude of difference it makes.
Imagine three guys:
All write the CAT 1 year - All get raped that year.
Tom writes CAT the next year - gets into IIMA and goes to join HSBC in HongKong after 2 years.
Dick says, fuck the CAT and writes GRE to join a Ph D program in Wisconsin (I know wisconsin is a wee bit too far, nevertheless just for the effect) and finally ends up with a Professorship in the university of Alaska at Anchorage ;)
and Harry says he'll dish it all and join TCS. He does and then moves to Verizon the next year, Satyam the next year and so on till he finally becomes 26 and 'settles down' (techie term :) ) in CTS.
(Note: Iam purposely avoiding Thermax or Reliance just to keep the discussion dispassionate and fair)
Note that tom, dick & harry had pretty much the same amount of grey cells and all of em were pretty vague about what they wanted to do before,say, going to college.
The point here is that this 'choice' is majorly influenced by things such as 'peer group', 'location of college' and other,um, smaller things that we dont think about. But imagine what difference it makes to what you become.
But what the heck, my whole argument might just be completely wrong because - a guys' formative years only begins after he leaves college and enters the real world.
But, i can counter it saying - if a guy joins a phD program, there is very little he can do in terms of thinking of anything else for the next 5 years - his,um, 'choice' is already made.
IT guys have it a bit easy, they can quit any job anytime they want and sit and home and think for a week. the next week they have another job :) of they want to.
Hmmmm, Iam sleepy - iam sure it shows up in my analysis of the whole issue.
G'ngt <yawn>
Wednesday, 15 March 2006
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2 comments:
First of all tell me how to do the single blog multiple post thing.
Second abt this blog in which u said that once PhD is taken as the choice he has nothing to think abt other than research for 5 yrs which i strongly disagree. The amount of experience we get from bein with multi diversified ppl and scientific thinking makes a PhD guy think far beyond any normal CTS or TCS guy can think. same is the case with the IIM guy. Lifes always a chance of learning. One never gives up learning unless he dies. It depends on how much u learn in the meantime. Looks like I am boring u. See u then.
Hari - Iam not saying a PhD is bad. I saying that a Ph D like your self will be much different 5 years later than, say, a guy like me. CHOICE :)
Heres how one makes multiple posts:
1.www.blogger.com. enter pswd on the right corner textboxes
2. you'll be taken to a 'dashboard' which will have a list of blognames. click on any name, you'll get a screen where you'll have the list of posts and a link called 'new post'
3. In the dashboard if you click 'creae blog' every time, you'll end up with new blogs every time.
hope this helped.
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