I just celebrated diwali yesterday and spended lots of money in shopping which wasn’t mine why?simply because I am yet to receive my first pay check. And I am not too happy about the situation I am thrown into because of the recession period. Honestly when I was in college I never ever expected that this would be so dramatic. Simply because college gives you hope and your heart is filled with dreams to achieve milestones. Even in january , when I was going for my final sem project I did not realize that IT industry would go through such phase.
A phase in which stock market is going down ,major investment banks in USA arel going bust, people are loosing jobs in usa and ya this had to effect India as we live in a global world no matter what the ministry says.Although I do not understand the economics of it as I am not an economic student but I do understand that petrol price have come down drastically and inflation which was going out of the roof has also managed to come down. But then value of rupees is decreasing.
Hence every company which deals in dollars is feeling the pain and that is coming down to every college be it small or big brands like IIT’s,IIM’s or any local college. As my friends who are going through placement procedure said that the package they are getting is way less than same time last year. And worst is the news reports that comes from every corner which states that even people who were placed by big mnc’s are getting regret letters instead of joining dates as this happened to 15 students who were from IIT Kharagpur which is one of the renowned institutions in the country. Even in company’s these decisions are closely guarded that no one has any clue and they have a fancy term coined for justifying these moves. In here they forget the effect on the student they have recruited but than Buisness is not done emotionally I guess. And yes its not your college where you are allowed to take so many liberties without ever being penealised like this.
Which is really sad as there is no time given when one can actually search for alternatives. At times when I see things around me I earnestly feel that I should give up everyything and just quit searching for anything. And I don’t know but some how it feels that one is not doing what one was supposed to do. I know its something written in every self help book that asks you to discover yourself. But than I am still doing that which is discovering “ME” as the days are passing by and cossing my finger with hope, aspiration and all the dreams that inspite of all this things will change with the new year.
AS nothing is as permanent as change!
By
Tulika Jyoti Vardhan
