From a Teacher to Student : Career Choices

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1488559976492","data":"Dear Sujay,<\/p>The fact that you had the audacity to go for a start-up, an unstable one at that, right out of college made me feel like I had taught you wrongly. This is an apology. This is an apology for questioning your career decisions in an era where start-ups have slowly become a great opportunity for youngsters. <\/p>You see, we were raised different. Throughout my age I had heard about the elusive government job, about the way I will be safe once I landed one. That led me to believe that my brightest students would all be scholars in government institutions. You got an opportunity too, and then it went out flat, you went ahead and went into a start-up that was just got on its foot. In that space, I remembered my upbringing, and thus, the call into the personal room and the scolding. For a moment, there was a forgotten memory of how I wanted to see if my inventions themselves worked out. How I wasted my time preparing for government jobs for almost a decade before the return to academia, back into innovations. I guess you reminded me of the mistakes I had done in my own career path, and thus, I pushed it onto you. <\/p>I am sorry. I am so terribly sorry. While, there might have been ups and downs in your career graph that would never come with a government job, there was happiness too. You never passed on your ideals away for the sake of your upbringing like I did, and maybe that is what is making this difference today. I do not know where to mail this to, I do not know your address beyond the one given in your website, and that is where this will reach. Perhaps, in a haphazard scheme like at our own college, my letter will be lost too. Maybe, its better that way.<\/p>If that day, my scolding would have made you change your career path, made you be safer, I would not have written this letter. You would have become just one of the many faces within a crowd. And as a teacher that would have been my failure. Do you remember your classmates Sujay? They're parts of drone colonies now, reproducing pieces of information to contribute to a larger image that they do not wish to know. That is my failure, and yes, I know I should tell them to take more risks, but, I cannot bring myself to write those letters today, maybe, that's a failure as a teacher too; being unable to go to a student and admit mistakes when they look and seem happy. <\/p>Your pictures on Facebook, the grants you have received, the way you have progressed make me happy. There is no greater joy to a teacher than the success of their student, no matter what I taught you during that particular interaction. <\/p>I know at that moment, I was abusing the power I had on you to steer you into a way that you did not want to take. This was a problematic approach to take, because in that way you became powerless, just for a moment. All the knowledge that I had given you over the years became just a function. So, yes, this is an apology. <\/p>Not sans happiness,<\/p>A teacher from years ago <\/p>"}]

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