Life as an Engineer

LIFE AS AN ENGINEER

Tony Stark, one of the most famous Avengers, is an electrical engineer who completed his masters from MIT at the age of 15. He lives in a mansion located on an edge of a cliff. JARVIS, an Artificial Intelligence, is his best assistant. Now, this my friends, is the REEL life. That obviously does not mean that you cannot be as famous as Tony Stark. It’s just that not every electrical engineer grows to be the ‘Iron Man’, who has cool robots and lavish lifestyle. Most of the kids at the age of 15, haven’t even heard of Fleming’s Right Hand Thumb Rule let alone the fact of getting into a high end college.

As an engineer working in a  government job, you would have a government home, with a government flat, a government car, as they move up the rank.
On the other hand, if you’re working in private sector, your salary would obviously be way better than those in the government jobs. But here’s the twist - you have absolutely no free facilities unlike the government counterparts. You have to buy your own vehicle and your own house.  So you see, every type of job has its own pros and cons. This, my friends, is the REAL life!

Tony Stark has one hell of a life-from saving the planet to organizing pool parties. But we are not Tony Stark, are we?  As an engineer, you might have to tackle technical situations in your field. You might be thinking that engineer’s life could be monotonous but it’s pretty much awesome at times. Because your college life teaches you to handle the extremes of pressure and find/create happiness in any situation. You may not have a life as adventurous as an Avenger, but you will definitely have some life that you will miss after retiring as an engineer.

You might have to stand in the scorching heat just to see that the roller is properly compacting the bitumen for the new road. You might be spending hours on a single program just to realize that you’ve haven’t declared the variables in your program in the first place. You might be doing overtime just to make an impression on your boss and simultaneously missing the card game you used to play with your family on weekends. But at the end of the day, you’ll be satisfied when the road is constructed without any undulations. You’ll laugh at yourself when you realize that the compiler of your language is not even aware of the variables you are operating with. You’ll cheer up and give the longest and tightest hug to your kids when your boss (who has seen you working late at night) gives you a promotion.

You might not have saved the planet with your engineering skills, but believe that you have done your part. And that’s the reality check!! So, to sum up, life in engineering is pretty much chilled out and awesome. Life after college, as an engineer, is more of pursuing your passion which you realize while pursuing engineering!

There goes a saying, “In India, you first do engineering. And then you do, what you really want to do!”