One
of the important quotients of checking out success in a
professional’s life is how he/she feels as he rises up in the
organization. Most people would feel “satisfied”, if their career
growth through the management rungs has been in line with their
expectations. In the present write-up, I am primarily referring to
those, who decided to stay with an organization, and not take to the
idea of starting on their own for various reasons. In my opinion, if a
professional gauges his professional success by the wealth he has
accumulated – I mean if he/she chooses to measure his/her
professional success by checking the bank balance and/or net-worth
creation- then such a person’s career graph will be full of hopped
jobs and if the returns aren’t to their expectations, they will be
starting on their own.
Thus in my opinion, those starting on their own in a field that is
well-established do so for the wealth creating potential of such a
decision/action than for giving fillip to their inner-drives. It is
truly very rare that someone was driven by the technical richness of
their idea and wanted to branch off to seeing it in reality. At best
the way out could be to have it as a hobby and try out the projects.
This means that the funding for the same will have to be from one’s
savings. If only the idea was too complex or needs high investment, it
is certain to meet its death.
I
would recount my own experience, picking up the thread from the
previous post.
I
had joined my job as a Control Engineer after my college. Though that
was not my natural choice for a field, I had reconciled to it and
wished to perfect the learning of it. For one thing the teaching of
Control Systems way back in 1974-79 was by using hand calculations and
graphs, whereas this a subject that is better visualized by quickly
generated full-fledged graphics. This is a reality today due to the
availability of the desktop computer and software packages like
P-Spice, Matlab etc; or similar available affordable mathematical
tools . Alas! this is also a time when, advancing through the
management rungs I am at such a level where I oversee or am expected
to get things moving by making others work! My getting involved with
technicalities will be frowned upon.Thus, I miss the excitement and
exhilaration that comes from seeing a technical idea/concept working.
This is why I have several times exclaimed whenever I see younger
generation (those born in late seventies or better still the eighties)
are born into an
The
curse part of it as for me is that, I have to create time outside of
my office routine to try and test some of the ideas that have been
flooding my mind and frustrating me no end in the process. Today I
want to rush towards my retirement so that I can devote all the time
to “perfecting” my
ideas and see them in
action!
