Last night I had lot of time on my hands to kill and I spent it contemplating on my life and its events thus far. I looked back a few years in to my past and tried to think of the reasons that motivated me to do, what I have been doing. As a kid it was the rat race at school and the desire to out do my fellow class mates, the primary motivation that drove my performance in academics. There were a few things in the curriculum that I studied out of love for the subject, but this was a very rare occurance. When the time came to join, the school of engineering, my major was chosen solely on the merits of my rank in the common entrance test and not based on what I wanted to study. Ofcourse my understanding of what each major dealth with was very limited and I ended up choosing electronics and communication as my major. It was more or less a random pick.
When I came to United States for graduate studies, I decided to major in DSP an communications. If you are thinking that I was knowledgable enough by now, to know what I wanted to study, you got it all wrong. I picked DSP, not because I was good at Math or the basics of Signal Processing, but because for some reason, DSP sounded more glamorous to me. After barely surviving 1 semester of DSP courses with 3 B grades and not knowing what I learnt during that semester, I figured, DSP was not my forte and like most other Indian students, I choose to study VLSI for rest of my graduate school.
This tells you that, the important decisions of my career have been random or populist picks and I never asked myself what is that I really wanted to specialize in. My guess is that many other Indian students have had their career choices made in similar fashion. I think there is a huge need to have a career information guide that provides the information about various career choices. This can be a great resource to many students of the future generation.
When I came to United States for graduate studies, I decided to major in DSP an communications. If you are thinking that I was knowledgable enough by now, to know what I wanted to study, you got it all wrong. I picked DSP, not because I was good at Math or the basics of Signal Processing, but because for some reason, DSP sounded more glamorous to me. After barely surviving 1 semester of DSP courses with 3 B grades and not knowing what I learnt during that semester, I figured, DSP was not my forte and like most other Indian students, I choose to study VLSI for rest of my graduate school.
This tells you that, the important decisions of my career have been random or populist picks and I never asked myself what is that I really wanted to specialize in. My guess is that many other Indian students have had their career choices made in similar fashion. I think there is a huge need to have a career information guide that provides the information about various career choices. This can be a great resource to many students of the future generation.
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