Wither manufacturing jobs?

I met this guy who was from my own college. It's been quite a while since met someone from my college so the conversation waxed on nostalgia, a bit of pride of been in a great institution and the frustrations of not having learnt enough while we were there.

I was surprised that the person I met had done remarkably well to obtain a gold medal in his stream ( I myself would have settled for a Galvanised Iron medal or something like that for my academic prowess!)

I assumed that he would go on to do masters in the US (as is the college norm for toppers) or do an IIM MBA...surprised he was into a software major! I subtly understood that he didn't have a great programming knowledge or aptitude, infact it was one of the very few areas he had done badly at college ( I mean relatively, he had better scores than me even in programming, though I used to consider myself some programming genius at college).

The point is good engineering talent is being sucked in to IT stream. Most of it is due to media hype of the profession and the typical bad mouthing of shopfloors. Parents who had slogged at the shopfloor always took opportunity to belittle it and it rubbed on the entire society not realising that a topper from a leading institution is going to have a different kind of shopfloor profile.

20 years down the line when we sit in an aircraft or drive over a bridge, I am sure we will break in to a cold sweat realising that all the best engineering minds are no longer running these operations. Over a period of time market dynamics sets right such skews and I really hope it does!

In the beginning

I always used to claim to be powerful in my thoughts, candid in my opinion and witty with my words. To make an inane claim without it being validated is illogical. There's no better way to evaluate your writing skills than to publish them and check its acceptance. I have attempted to shout my thoughts loudly, with out the fear of being shouted back at or being spurned by the scorning eyes of know-all critics.

It is one thing to criticize the creative writers saying "Oh gawd, they are baaaad" and quite another to roll up the sleeves, sip mug full of coffee and pour out page full of thoughts!

I don't claim that this blog is different from the million others in the blogsphere. You don't stop living in your home even if it isn't very different from someone else's. So here in these pages will parade my thoughts, opinions, successes, failures, laughter and the occassional tear without claiming it to be vastly different from your life or the next man/woman's.

So here goes..

I try my hand at blogging
Even if I dont have critics fawning
Hope that readers come back for more
Or atleast don't call me a bore