Plight of Civil Engineers in Private Sector - 2
Other side of the dilemma
An elephant is worth the same, living or dead. Same are the civil engineers. If there were no civil engineers, human race would have been relegated to natural caves in the forest for living. No business, no roads/transport, no entertainment and never a skill would have existed on earth.
Monumental structures, majestic highways, massive irrigation and power generation water spots provide testimony to the hardwork of civil engineers. Even the topmost earner in the globe must and should be grateful to the civil engineer who built the premises in which he functions.
In spite of these civil engineers are the deprived lot, to be termed nothing less than the most unfortunate amogst professionals. Lay-off period - stretching from months to years - haunts them like a devil, project after project. Though we don't find any other professional accepting salary less than present when he opts for new employment, we often find civil engineers being pressurised to work for 50 percent of what they are getting!
An elephant is worth the same, living or dead. Same are the civil engineers. If there were no civil engineers, human race would have been relegated to natural caves in the forest for living. No business, no roads/transport, no entertainment and never a skill would have existed on earth.
Monumental structures, majestic highways, massive irrigation and power generation water spots provide testimony to the hardwork of civil engineers. Even the topmost earner in the globe must and should be grateful to the civil engineer who built the premises in which he functions.
In spite of these civil engineers are the deprived lot, to be termed nothing less than the most unfortunate amogst professionals. Lay-off period - stretching from months to years - haunts them like a devil, project after project. Though we don't find any other professional accepting salary less than present when he opts for new employment, we often find civil engineers being pressurised to work for 50 percent of what they are getting!
I am the best example for such situation. To avoid any more lay-offs, I approached an employer after a project and requested him to utilize me for work in the areas like correspondence, marketing, creation of newsletters and all other media related activities.
You will be surprised at the reply I got! He asked me to work free of cost and accept commission on revenue generated through those activities.
To avoid lay-offs in the civil engineering field, I even became a journalist and assisted media to edit newspapers and periodicals namely Bangalore Sun, National Matters, City Today, Bangalore Eveninger, Bangalre Lines and Move Up People.
An employer will be kind towards his civil engineer and fulfils his every requirement when the project is under construction. The same employer will be hostile when the project nears completion, finds fault in nothing and everything the civil engineer does and creates a situation which compels the latter to resign on his own.
The employer thinks he has nothing more to understand about civil engineering after completion of the project, being calculative that he can have four more female employees around him if he saves the salary he is paying to the civil engineer.
Will there be a lease of life to civil engineers in private sector, atleast in the future?
* * * * *
|
|
