I got a chance to watch two absolutely fanatical Tamil movies that portrayed software engineers as the curse of the human society. I really could not comprehend this negative sentiment. Why such a sick, sinful, highly exaggerated display is required in a filthy movie ???
A software engineer do not cheat around. He does not rob,steal,mug anyone. He is also a common man who works for his living. He has commitments, responsibilities like any other person. Then what exactly discriminates him from common man !!!!
Salary ??? It is all an illusion. The fact is, he is the one who achieves much less and works much more than anyone else. The mental stress, deadlines, sedentary life style compensates for the extra penny he earns. To put it simple, HIS LIFE IS PENNY WISE BUT POUND FOOLISH !!!!I m sure that every software engineer will be looking for an alternate career option than being a couch potato, staying away from his families most of the time.
Lifestyle ??? This seems to be a major weapon for middle aged men to attack software engineers. I absolutely agree that they had tough time during their youth. They started earning only by late twenties and by that time they would have got married. New roles and responsibilities had kept them busy drafting future plans. But each and everyone would have some unfulfilled dreams and wishes of a typical youth. Even a software engineer is like everyone else except that most of them start earning pretty early and get a chance to fulfill some of their dreams. The most notable being the fancy clothes, bikes, bike trips etc. Wake up folks !!!
Most of the people in jobs other than IT live closely with their families in their habitual place. But life of a software engineer is disturbing rather annoying. As the IT companies are mostly located in confined areas, relocating is mandatory rather compulsory. As those places are expensive and highly mechanical his parents decide to stay at their native places. The result, even if any urgency, he cannot visit his home due to the non availability of travel tickets. In my case, there is only one train to my home town and I need to book tickets two months in advance at least. For anyone who was brought up in a conservative, affectionate environment this separation will definitely have some impact on their day-to-day lives.
A software engineer loses so much to earn very less. Every IT company just sucks the hell out of every employee and awards him some peanuts. But each and every person, right from street vegetable vendor, auto driver till people owning shops in big shopping malls, try to wiggle out the hard earned peanuts from him. Is it ethical ? After all he is a software engineer, not criminal, becoz if he was he would have entered "The great Indian politics" !!!!
24 June 2008
Software Engineers are not criminals!!!
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kb..they are not criminals but definitely they(we??!?) are self-fish soles not caring about the society and the world we live that is more dangerous than criminals!!think again, you will know!!
I completely abet the facts provided KB...
@Karthik.v :if that is the case then all of us are selfish,need not be IT guys only for that matter ;-)
All earn to satisy their needs and this is one way of doing it and nothing wrong in it :-)
I agree with you da..Even I m seeing fake smiles, fake praises everyday. I m learning it as I(we ??!?) m also a part of the world you are talking about. Now the situation is getting worse as there is at least one software engineer per family. If you have attended any family functions recently you could see that the phenomena you are talking about has propagated to the elderly persons as well. There were days in which they had healthy affectionate conversations. But now it is like,
Father 1 : My son is so and so company and he is earning so and so..
Father 2 : Oh!!that is not much I guess..even my son who is less experienced than your son earns so much.
Father 3: My son is in canada for three years.He is a big shot in his team.
All these are very painful and the worst nightmare comes when you get struck in between their discussions. They just drill you with questions such that you get a feeling that you are not worth living. The world have changed or we have changed it ???I seriously don't know.
The purpose of the blog is to say that we "earn" money and we don't spoil anyone's life for the same. Such derogatory display of us being the evil souls is absolutely absurd !! But as you say, corporate life is very dangerous !!!
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Nice post..agree with you about the difficulties of s/w engineer and the comparisons made by relatives
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