Career move

Does working in a smaller organisation in the initial days of your career serve the purpose? Does it give you the exposure and the opportunity to learn more and more things? It sure does. At least, it did in my case. I started my career as an Instructional Designer in one of the leading companies in elearning. But sometime down my first job, I realised the need to join a smaller organisation and get a chance to learn, with more responsibilities. Having decided on that, I moved on and needless to say, that whatever I know today can be credited majorly to this career move that I made. Good decision!!

The Indian Youth of Today

The youth of today is not what we would expect them to be.They arent the types who would loiter around squandering away their parents' money. For them, getting settled is of utmost priority. No longer are Engineering and Medicine the only preferred careers. Career options like law, journalism, management etc are the more sought after than ever before. The youth unabashedly accepts of not being caught up in the vagaries of smoking, drinking and other ill habits. It has absolutely no qualms for accepting that it believes in the existence of a Supreme Power and fate. We have a majority of the youth agreeing to their parents' choices as regards to everything, be it a career option or the person to get married to. No longer does the youth wants to escape the responsibilities of the family or should I say the joint family. Doesnt all this seem so very different from the previous generation. It sure does! The youth is not carried away by superfluous things and wants to rethink the very essence of its life with its family.

Not just this, the aspirations of the youth has jumped by leaps and bounds. They are no longer satisfied with the simple pleasures attached with the 9 to 5 job (Its almost non-existent these days). The youth doesnt mind stretching himself/herself beyond what he/she can sustain as long he is making it well in the performance appraisals and also swap companies without attaching any emotions to any company. He wants to do a lot of social and developmental work alongwith the day-to-day job. At the same time, he doesnt mind leaving abroad for higher studies or for better options. In fact, I myself, know quite some people who have or are in the process of immigrating for the sake of better options. A lucrative career is the thing that is most coveted for by today's youth.

We see that the youth of India is today is making it big as far as the carrer is concerned but the sorry state of affairs is that India is still one of the poorest of nations and doesnt have much to offer in terms of the conditions of living. Can that be changed? Well, it would surely need a lot of revamping to be done to the existing systems.