Today, many of us are worried about our careers. Making a good career and earning big bucks is our focus. Also we are often confused and distraught over what to do. To go for MS after graduation or go for the lucrative MBA options. To stick to the field we graduated from or to shift to some other field. To join this company or that. To do this course or that. All this stuff does exhaust us mentally and we are still no where close to our big dreams of earning big bucks. Well, that’s how life is, isn’t it. Now that we have grown up we have to shoulder our own responsibilities and also those of the world.
However remember the days when we didn’t have to worry about these. Those days of childhood when we dared to dream of being what we wanted to be. Those carefree days were a bliss and the most happy ones. Like every other child even I had some crazy, sometimes outrageous dreams. What mattered was doing things which appealed to me. I remember how my interpretation of an engineer was one who drives a train-engine. Since I always was fascinated by trains I would think being an engineer would be a cool job. To think of it now, how wrong I was! Being an engineer is not even close to being interesting forget exciting like I thought. As I grew up I started reading novels. I was intrigued by the thrilling ‘Sherlock Holmes’ novels and being a spy was my next ambition. Even now I’d not mind being a spy working for some secret agency like MI-6.
Since childhood I must have had hundreds of new ambitions each day and I actually took them seriously. I would often day dream about these whacky ambitions of mine. Right from being a pilot, an engineer(one who drives engines!),a soldier, a spy, a cook, the guy selling ice-creams and many more. Pondering over these I realize how impractical some of these dreams were and how innocent some others were. But all of these were linked to what fascinated my young childish mind. However today I am finally doing ‘Engineering’ not the one ‘the younger me’ thought it was, but the actual engineering. And now I realize this is not what I wanted to do. But this is what I am required to do. Times have changed now and so have the priorities. These priorities that are dictated by the world and its lifestyles. The world where being successful means earning more and having more power. So here I am on my course to become an Engineer; still unsure of what to do ahead; still uncertain of what to do with my life and still doubtful if I’d ever be able to achieve the ambitions set by this world which surely are not as gratifying and exciting as the innocent, sweet childhood dreams I had.
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