Why there are so many unemployed engineers?

As you saw in my previous post, we talked about how the government is putting in efforts, but it is not helping students much.

In this post, I want to talk about its effect on the country.

The process of pursuing engineering is being made easier and easier with time just so the students don’t feel pressured, are able to pass and become an engineer. This is giving rise to unemployed engineers or engineers in other fields which have nothing to do with engineering.

Let’s take the example of computer science engineers. 

Go and search the news; Indian Computer Engineers are ruining the open source.

You can find many more; this is just one example.

So, the question is why is it happening? Yes, the process to become an engineer requires little to no effort today but why did the government make it so easy?

As we saw in the last post, it’s to keep up with the pressure on students and suicide but then shouldn’t we blame the student for not putting efforts?

Its answer lies when we look at 5 years in the past in that child’s life, when they were pushed for JEE to become a good engineer and before that into taking science to become an engineer.

The child’s decision had already been taken by someone who barely knew them when the kid did not know what engineering was, or about any other career options. The child did not know that they could be a historian, an artist, a writer, a company owner, etc. but the future of that little child was already decided. It’s similar to when centuries ago, parents used to decide whom their child would marry the moment they were born. Doesn’t it sound pathetic? Well, because it is.

The government reduced the syllabus, practical work in classes and increased the written work which is easier for the child to do with less mental effort. Just so the stressed students can keep up with the course of becoming an engineer or a doctor.

Consequently, this has demotivated other children who love science to emigrate to other countries instead of working here only, which is leading to brain-drain. This has reduced the quality of engineers and doctors in our country as it is degrading for engineers and doctors who work hard & wish to stay in the country for its betterment.

Furthermore, this has caused a reduction in the average pay an engineer gets as most of them do not provide quality work; usually the ones who took science under pressure in the first place.

Though within that same crowd, there are also others who are thinking how amazing their work is and are ready to put more efforts if they get proper pay, so they don’t have to think about their basic survival and personal problems. They wish to create something great for the world through the company because they can’t be good engineers when they aren’t compensated fully for their efforts.

This shows how low the minimum wage is in the country and how underpaid they are whereas, in the previous picture, how can someone be underpaid if they are not being creative and innovative in their designated field? How to pay those employees? The company cannot pay those who aren’t willing to work but the ones who suffer most are those who are willing to put in more work for better pay.

In conclusion, just because the kids during their teenage years couldn’t do what they wanted, the whole country is suffering. All the enthusiasts, creative people, genius scientists, imaginators are suffering. They are struggling just to survive and have their basic needs met in their life.

It hurts to see the dark future of the country and children because of people’s closed mindset which is why I want to help these kids. The reason I am building Codru Education is that I want to help them all to work on things they want instead of teaching them a defined syllabus to become a doctor or an engineer.