Career Advice

This is part of one of your earlier original posts. It is typical of the skill level you demonstrate in most of your posts,

"How does a tester work? Please help I'm a graduate engineer."

I don't think you are ready for, "operation and maintenance of substation as well as erection and commissioning of substation."

Too many lives would be at risk with you working there. Once again you are asking questions that belie your level of competence. Stay where you are until you have some experience and don't have to ask elementary questions.

There I go again with the negative comments. I can't help it. If the truth hurts, maybe it should.

GA to Milo for this encouraging mail.

A small background of cultural differences may not be out of place here. In India 50 years ago, one had to choose between engineering, medicine or law. No other options were there for the average person. The very bright ones went to IITs. Others like me had to settle for lesser institutions. A small percentage had the passion and became great engineers and scientists. A very small %age. So, businessmen saw the oppurtunity and opened thousands of engineering colleges, some good, some pathetic. Most engineers coming out of these colleges are proportionately good or pathetic. A small percentage still make very good engineers, because they do have the passion to learn, do well and pursue excellence. Most of them could easily have done well in medicine, law, finance .. you name it. Just happened to be engineers.

i have worked with many illiterate people whose parents could not dream of putting their son through elementary school even, let alone college. But the passion for engineering is so bright in these people, that i have no doubt they would have been a shoo-in to IITs if only...

i cherish the time i spend with such people and do what i can to better their formal education.

The scope to earn a living in many field is better nowadays, still engineering rules the roost.

Thanks again, and sorry for rambling

kvsridhar,

A very good answer here. A sterling example of a Good Answer Off Topic, or GOAT. (Yeah, it's not an exact acronym but since a few here once adopted this term I figured I resurrect it here.)

Many people forget that this is an international web and that many different complicated cultures meet in cyberspace. Forgetting these cultural differences is a natural human mistake that afflicts both sides of the culture gap. A westerner trying to project authority will often be perceived as arrogant. At the same time there are also many arrogant westerners. This gap can and will get worse if the parties involved are unknowingly talking about different things.

Redfred, Kvsridhar,

There may be a bit of cultural gap to bridge. But I think that if we see our role as "providing encouragement and assistance" that our good will will help us across that bridge.[p]

I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt- my good will- to requestors until /unless they show that their "needs" are out of line. How do we define that ? I don't know, But I think I know it when I see it. But all of us have different views of that.

My thinking changed once when I saw a photo live. It made me realize that

Milo

Thank you redfred and Milo. It is an enriching experience to interact with people who are not only good in their field, but are so human (can't think of a better adjective!)

And what a beautiful picture ... thanks .. i have saved it on my desktop

i wasn't kidding..here it is .. my messy workstation. What a beautiful thought to wake up to ...or at any time ..... (even better after a couple of nice shots of Glenfiddich !)

Looks like your mouse is orbiting the planet. Hopefully a certain < Del the> CAT won't go after your mouse...

Milo

Heh heh.. i would surely like to introduce Del to our famous God Ganesha, whose 'vehicle' is a mouse .. a very powerful one... after all he is carrying the 'Elephant God'... we Indians do not start a day without paying obeisance to Ganesha, since it is believed that he removes all obstacles from our path in any venture, righteous of course. In modern times, with the influx of IT in India, Ganesha sometimes gets upset .. like here...

It is a gif image titled "Lost mouse Ganesha", but somehow the animation doesn't work..nice one.

Hey KV, What I understand is, as Hitudanand said he knows many engineers in India who do not understand operating principles of Tester. In such a situation praying to Ganesha is necessary to see the day through. Or may be a few Odd good hands like yourself, save many asses. Hope you won't take any offence.....!

You bet praying to Ganesha (or any one of the other 33 million Gods and Goddesses) is how most of us stumble through life here And no, no offence taken at all. If you check some of my posts, (even the thread where i have been compared to Google/Yahoo), i have taken most comments as compliments