Whether it is buying a cup of coffee or choosing career options, opportunities and choices have increased to the point where decision making occupies much of our time. When it comes to careers, Indians have been known to gravitate towards the more lucrative and “safer” fields such as engineering and medicine.

Hey, what do you want to become? 

Engineer. 

What’s your aim in life? 

Doctor. 

Where do you want to make your career? 

Engineering. 

What are you going to study after +2? 

Medical.

Whomever you ask, you’ll get the same answers regarding one’s career choice. Doctor or engineer. That’s it, and nothing else. There’s no other choice. Simply nothing beyond these 2 fields. Everyone is rushing to become a doctor or an engineer. But is it practically possible to just have these 2 choices only? Is there nothing else beyond these two fields? Is it possible that everyone choose these 2 fields? Possibly ‘NO’. Then why everyone is rushing toward becoming doctor & engineer? 

If you do a survey in India, you’d get that maximum number of students, especially those who’ve secured good marks, want to become either doctor or engineer. Roughly, it can be determined that almost 90% of students of India want to have engineering or medical as a career. 

First, when a student passes 10th std and enters 11th, he/she is actually ‘forced’ to take science by his/her parents. The student may or may not be of science stream, but he/she has to take science whether interested or not. Parents actually force students to take science in +2. Those who don’t take science are those whose parents understand what their children want to take, or simply children refuse to take science. Among them, there’ll be lots who are interested in science in reality and take science in +2.  

After that, when they pass out 12th exam, they’re forced to take either engineering or medical. Some force to take engineering and some force to take medical and some force to take either of them, wherever the student gets seat. If students can’t get admission, their parents give donations of lakhs of rupees to college. After that, through several complex processes (complex processes = giving donations to college + cheating in exam + other malpractices), they pass out as doctor or engineer. And when you ask their parents, they’d say with pride that their children are doctor or engineer. 

After that, engineers would try for companies and doctors would either work for hospitals or start their own clinic. And continue their lives. They get satisfaction by just labeling ‘doctor’ or ‘engineer’ in front of their names and nothing else. Parents also feel pride by saying that their children are now doctor or engineer. 

This is the scenario of India at the moment. Everyone just wants to label the titles of doctor and engineer in front of their names. No one has the feeling that becoming doctor or engineers through these complex processes is really nothing. Today, if you count doctors and engineers in our country, you’d need a supercomputer as the numbers go on forever. And you can count other professions on the heads of your finger. 

Engineering and medical are among the most important and demanded fields, without which many of our progresses would be stopped. All the latest technologies of today are only possible due to exponential growth in engineering, and we’re creating treatments of many previously untreatable and deadly diseases only due to the same exponential growth in medical. So both of them are very important for our both development and survival. But the problem, in anyway, doesn’t lie within engineering and medical. The problem lies with the fact that whether they’ve talents in the fields or not, the majority of students in India are taking either engineering or medical as their careers. The main defect is with the society. It’s a common mentality of the society that everything lie within engineering or medical, which is actually untrue. 

World is giving scope to each and every field. And to be honest, today no one gives interest in what your profession is, but everyone gives interest in your skills and what you can do with them. Whether you’re a doctor or an engineer or an artist or a businessman or a politician or a social worker or a sportsperson or an actor or a journalist or whatever you’re, it’s not of any interest. The interest is in what you can do with all these. 

So, always choose to become what you want. The choices of life shouldn’t be affected by others interference. It should be solely personal. If you want to become an engineer, go with your dream. If you want to become an astronaut, go with your dream. If you want to be a writer, go with your dream. If you want to be a doctor, go with your dream. If you want to be a singer, go with your dream. If you want to be………, go with your dreams. But if you don’t to become, never go with it. You’ve the rights to choose for your life. Never hesitate of doing something you know, is right for you, & you want to do. 

We can choose what we want to. The choices of life are not like the MCQs of exams, where if one answer is wrong, one mark would go. But these are something which affects us lifelong. If we choose something incorrect because others are saying to do, we may need to suffer for the whole life. So, explore the possibilities of life, choose your profession according to your talents, become what you want and rock the world with your talents.