The Power of You

Three continuous years of ass-licking and that too for a so called “high paying job”. C’mon man! Grow up!

The companies that visit our campus for recruitment present before us job profiles that at first look portray a rosy picture before us. But, give your rusty brains a bit of trouble and look for the growth that you would follow under normal circumstances. Believe me it will not lead to where you deserve to be or where you want to be in the next ten years of your career. A popular adage states that you should not stop dreaming because if you don’t dream how will you accomplish it! There are actually quite a good number of people in our institute itself who have the potential to change the way we look at the world today and the way we work in the world today.

Let’s talk in mathematical terms because that’s what we IITians are adept at. In a batch of 700 people remove the MSc. guys, approx. 100, followed by the removal of dual degree people, approx. 250, which leads us to a total of approximately 350 eligible candidates for placements. Now, this figures accrues to 500 if we take into account 150 people from the dual degree senior batch. Even if I get pessimistic about the financial status of the families of the pupils studying here, the number of guys who are in a dire necessity to take up a job will not overshoot the figure of 200. Now, further remove 100 cold-blooded guys who want to spend their lives by doing 9-6, grooming their children, watching movies with their better halves, and saving enough money so they could spend their old days sipping tea and reading newspaper on an easy-chair. So, this leads us to a potential 200 pupils capable of taking risks and changing their future for the better.

Just to remind all those among you who have given their bit to come to this prestigious institute by fair means (I am a bit doubtful about the existence of the unfair means but still…) that they are capable of doing anything (and when I say anything, I mean anything) if they are determined to. Above all this institute of ours provides us the freedom to sit for placements even after two years of graduation in case a person decides to start his own company just after his or her graduation. I think you are intelligent enough to gauge that two years of experiment would make you clear about the future of your company and if you are, let me tell you that a good business attains its break-even in 12 to 18 months.

If you would allow me to use the calculations that I did earlier I would like state that in ideal case there should be at least 30 to 40 companies rolling out every year on average taking into account that a start up would comprise of five people on an average. But the gloomy present scenario is that there are hardly four or five groups going for their start-ups.

What my point is that if we claim ourselves to be the best in the country(I don’t think that you would doubt it) then if we won’t take the risk then who would. If you are still not convinced, let me state another fact that till today a majority of the start-ups by us have been successful. How could you work for others and allow him to take all the credits? If he likes your work then you should be smart enough to note that you have the acumen and agility to provide employment to thousands or even millions. All you have to do is to have faith in yourself and I don’t think that this is a cumbersome task for an intelligent person like you. This faith is going to take you miles in your life and would allow you to smell satisfaction and success. And I guess there is nothing as sweet as the aroma of success. If you want to fly high, dare to dream, dare to be you!