On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Vishnu Vijayaraghavan < [email protected]> wrote:
> It is not the degree that matters. It is the interest towards > coding/programming and IT. But IMHO Ethics is dead and there are no > passionate IT developer in the industry today. > > > So very unfortunately, careers in India are not chosen by passion. It is chosen by the "wealth generation" capacity ONLY. Followed by "ticket to America". Throw in the MNC giant's ability to pay ridiculously high salaries, we are heading for total disaster in the next decade. As a person who was running a core engineering company (my brother runs it now), I know what is happening. We have to shut down in the future if this continues. No doubt that the IT industry has done a miracle (I thank it for it) in creating a "real" middle class in India, but it needs to get more socially aware and responsible. It is surely no easy task, but something needs to be done. Don't mistake me guys, I am not asking for the IT salaries to be reduced. It is killing all small and medium scale core engineering companies. India requires small and medium enterprises to survive. They are the real heart of India employing a huge majority of Indians. This is not a rant and I am not a communist. I am a passionate software developer myself and I run a small software company who has to make the same compromises because of the norms. And no, I could not have paid my non-IT staff in the engineering company IT salaries because my customer will walk away to another supplier who's overheads will be lower :-) I will end this with an interesting conversation I had with one of our electronics technician who was with us for 9 years. He holds a diploma and is brilliant. This is was what he asked me- "You are giving me 19K per month and you are giving Karthik (One year experience, BE, software engineer) 22K per month. Who gives more value to you?" I had to say "you do, a lot more, but I cannot help it". It was sad. He left us that year and found another job for the same salary. Just that he could work more peacefully. Regards, Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
