Expectation & over expectation

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 For many years, I have observed that students expect to have a high salary right after college. If they do not get a good package, they become disheartened. Many students even do not join their campus placements. Those misdirected souls loiter around and waste precious time.  However, some students do get a high salary but the number is very small. The majority of the students are going to get the average package or lower than the average package. This is the reality and it should be accepted with humility. You get what you deserve. Someone may have given more time to learning things and hence he or she has been rewarded. If you work hard from now on, you will also climb the ladder. You have 30 to 35 years ahead of you to do something and excel in it. If your effort is continuous, no one can defeat you. Life is a long journey; it should be looked at in that way. Nothing happens overnight as the saying goes, “Rome was not built in a day.”

 

In popular culture, a fresher’s salary is mocked and made fun of people hesitate to join certain companies and these companies are the biggest recruiters in India. In popular stand-up comedies, people are made fun of their organization and their salary. Now, you need to understand that a fresher is someone who is starting and learning things. So, nobody will pay someone who is learning and not productive to the company currently but he or she would be an assent after the training. An asset is something that gives back a return on investment. The companies invest a lot in training the recruits because work demands are different in companies. One more thing that should be remembered is that the companies are capitalist and they do business to earn and not to give jobs. 

 

Probably, no college in the world can make you fully job-ready. It is simply not possible even for premier institutes. You should understand that the college prepares you with basics and builds your confidence. If you are a mechanical engineering student, after studying mechanical engineering, you cannot make iron suits like Iron Man, can you? Since you are not that kind of Superman; you should not have a super expectation. So, one needs to step down from heaven and work like a mortals. Generally, the high achievers gauge the gap between college curriculum and industry requirements through their efforts. If you observe them, they know something you do not know.

 

 Once you go to work, you will find some of your basics put into use and the rest of the things, you will learn by training and experience. Therefore, keeping aside all the negative thoughts, one should reconsider and devote some time to learning. If you go to markets in many parts of India, vendors let you try the item before you purchase so to build confidence. Similarly, one needs the first few years in the job as the letting others try period. You should not think of salary to a large extent. After some experience, you can switch jobs for a salary hike.  

 

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