What next?... the big question of our lives- Prof. B.P. Giridhar

Date : 09-04-2012

What next ? is the big question in all our life. Everyone does not have answer to this question so I was also confused about it. But our respected Vice chancellor Prof. B.P. giridhar Enlightened us today with his great views.

Today an interactive session was held at New H.M. Hall from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for B.tech Civil Engineering 6th and 8th semester.The session was mainly focused on career planning. It was cleary a success because it cleared many doubt and misconceptions of students about there future.To our advantage Our vice chancellor sir is also from Civil Engineering field so he can Guide all of us in best ways.He completed is graduation in the year 1978 and post graduation in the year 1982.

Most of student are not even clear about the main  difference between the term’CAREER’ and ’JOB’.The first question which he asked all of us was the difference between career and job. First he heard the views of many student but none was able to satisfy him. After that he explained the difference with the two examples which he had witnessed personaly.

As explained by him job is any task  which is assigned to us and require our skills and we are are rewarded on the basis of our performance. On the other hand Career needs a long term planning and it may require us to take up many jobs to reach our final aim which is already planned in advance. The example sir gave was of his sisters son whose progress he have been seeing since his birth.He said that when this boy was graduating I asked him that what he want to do with life so he answered in simple word that I want to be an enterpreneur at the age of 30. So he graduated in the field of electronics and communication,after that he was placed in a very good  electronics company. He served there for two years then he changed the company to Robert and Bosch after working for them for few months he  was selected for a 9 month training in germany. So  during this whole journey he had learned a lot about how the engineering Industry . Now he decided to do MBA in finance from Harvard University which he successfully achieved. Now he was ready with lots of experience and knowledge about this field to start his own company. And he is now successfully running his electronics company in many countries.

So in above case the final destination was already set where that boy had to reach so he worked according to some set plans in his mind.So we should work in our life with some set goals and predefined task in our mind what we have to achieve. We should always go for excellence in life.

Sir also gave us many of his life experiences which were truly  benefitial to all the students.I think all of the student have now got a direction were they are heading in life.

In the end I want to quote few lines :

When ambition exceeds performance, The gap is called Frustration..

When the performance exceeds ambition, The overlap is called success..!