I wasn't
sure what I would become and there is a lot of difference between what I wanted
to be and what I am. But I do not complain because its better than what I thought
it to be.
God
probably had a better script in mind. Today am a software engineer by
profession. When I was around 10 years of age, I wanted to become a civil
engineer. And then I thought I just wanted to be an engineer. Later when I was
doing my tenth std , biology was probably the toughest of subjects I had to
encounter and I thought am not gonna choose my major as biology in my higher
secondary. But as it turned out to be I got into the biology class. I never
wanted to be a doctor then but my parents thought that opting for biology would
give me the additional option of writing the entrance test for Medical
examinations which I never did. Later when I was quite sure about taking
engineering, I thought to myself that I shouldn't take Computer science as my
major. But fate had other ideas. Am now a computer science engineer. But I can
boast myself as someone who is in a career that I can relate to my studies
because many of my friends don't. Even when I was doing my engineering in
computer science I was very poor in my programming skills and I knew that a job
in this field would require that and I had to work on that. I didn't have a
good tutor for that and I thought it wasn't a good idea to spend for a tuition
on that , because that would mean I had to burn out some money from my dad's purse, which I
didn't wanted to. Then I came across Systech which introduced me to a field
called Business Intelligence and where I wouldn't require more of a programming
knowledge except for some sql skills which I already had. I
know that there are many students out there who still think there is no career
outside c,c++,java. I hope one day they too would realize like the way I did.
Now am working on a BI tool called Microstrategy and that can write sql on its
own making my job much easier. So, here I am , a software engineer without any
coding. So what do you think ,did I chose the career or the career chose me??
Who chose whom??
-RB
