On Monday 27 December 2010 11:49 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > The irony is the fact that cars are still affordable because the salaries, > compensations given to Auto sector employees / sub contractors / OEM > suppliers are low (compared to IT). Increase this to IT norms and cars will > become automatically much more expensive and will become unfordable to the > middle class yet again. That's the reason why there has to be inclusive, > sustainable growth (I have started to get a feeling that this is > an oxymoron). This might not be possible at all because it is a vicious > cycle we have ended up in. Growth of one sector should not be at the expense > of the other. >
Though that might be true, salaries for better or worse, are decided by market/macro-economic conditions more than anything else. I don't think salary needs to be the motivational factor for any career - the choice is simple (though quite hard) - if money is the motivation, it is unlikely a person will be happy no matter which career he/she chooses - I'll hazard to say even if they do "succeed" in it. So I think it's more of a personal/character decision than anything else. I've read a rather neat quote I liked recently - it goes something like - "don't try to be a success, strive to be of value". I have to agree with that. If you can provide genuine value to your employer/customer/client, I think most of the money/success issues will take care of themselves eventually. And I don't think "genuine value" happens unless you also happen to like the job :) Vamsee. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
