On Tuesday 26 Feb 2008 5:31:33 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > The local people working for places like nokia / samsung are just as bad as > the ones working for the local companies (well, slightly less bad). The > good ones get cherrypicked to head abroad. Or scout for high paying jobs > abroad.
Don't want to indulge in complete speculative nonsense here, but I have, in various forum discussions came across similar discussions about similar situations unrelated to the IT industry that may have a bearing on the issue. I would just like to bring them up as "thoughts thunk while thinking". Knowing that all generalizations are wrong, I will still go ahead and state that the typical engineer or techie who hunts for higher paying jobs abroad is one who has family encouragement to do that and family support to do that. In other words those who start off being socially privileged in the first place (often but not necessarily "forward caste")go ahead and achieve "greater things" The less privileged people often have family pressure to 1) Start earning soon to recoup investment 2) Inability to put in that extra investment to travel abroad 3) Family presssure to stay on and to fulfil family obligations and not go away These people often do not already have others who have done the same thing in their extended family, and can very often be the only technically educated person in the family. There are other bells and whistles that may be associated with this, such as "backward caste", widowed mother, only son with three sisters to be married, only educated person in the family, easily available job nearby in local mofussil town in a government establishment that gels in with all the other social commitments. The salary is often much higher than anyone else in the extended family earns despite being much lower than the multinational/foreign type job. Like I said similar situations exist in other industries and vocations, including medicine and industrial research and production. Unfortunately (and I am not accusing you) there is a tendency to consider these people as being somewhat inferior in the same manner that IIT graduates sometimes refer to non IIT types. shiv
