IT professionals Satified wid their JOBs

[Asif]

well a lot of the guyz here wud b working and i expect quite a few IT pros.
considering the menial jobs the Indian IT companies as a whole do well hav a poll for all the IT people about their JOBs

[Garfield]

Dear!
There is nothing like a menial job...!!!
It's your attitude which makes it menial...
SM

[arviyon]

maybe one can substitute the word menial with low-end to make it sound less offensive.
But the thing abt mindset,well..,its a nice soundbyte and all that,but sorry to say,in reality,its nonsense.

The fact is most of these outsourcing jobs(including s/w) involves work where we hardly need to apply our brains or our knowledge,which is pretty sad.In the company i work in,there are ppl from iims and iits,who do work which even an ordinary grad (or maybe even a school pass out) can do.What a waste of talent..

An interesting article on this topic:

http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/aug/10das.htm

[D e e p t i]

Why do we opine only jobs requiring use of brain to be "GREAT"? We've been nurtured with these prejudices. We probably assosiate too much ego with being "intelligent" and "above-average" and thats the reason we find "low-end" jobs unsatisfactory.

[The Last d'anconia]

Originally Posted by D e e p t i

Why do we opine only jobs requiring use of brain to be "GREAT"? We've been nurtured with these prejudices. We probably assosiate too much ego with being "intelligent" and "above-average" and thats the reason we find "low-end" jobs unsatisfactory.

well said Deepti....

yeah...why do v call ourselves humans??? look at those animals ...they r so good...r they using their brains...?? still they are happy....

letz go back to those ages when Man never realized that he has a brain and itz power....

letz go back to those dark ages.....


let the earht be Animal Planet....no humans...errr no Intelligent Animals...

[arviyon]

Originally Posted by D e e p t i

Why do we opine only jobs requiring use of brain to be "GREAT"? We've been nurtured with these prejudices. We probably assosiate too much ego with being "intelligent" and "above-average" and thats the reason we find "low-end" jobs unsatisfactory.

and i thot ppl actually wanted such jobs becos they wld find it more enjoyable and satisfying.
i didnt even hv a hint that it was ego which which was driving them .what a shame
I guess its the same ego which is driving ppl like sachin and lata mangeshkar to stick to their profession-after all playing cricket iw qualitatively no different from any other physical work..is it?

[Asif]

well thats better said the done..... ull come to know wats menial and wat isnt once u join the industry there are hardly jobs that are exciting and high end... one case mit b that u r satisfied wid watever u get to do...widout lookin fr better opps