The number is my CGPA aur the CPI as many people like to call it. The definite index of my employability. The lower your index the higher your chances of ending up in either Accenture,TCS and the likes.Can’t include IBM here, especially after the “butchering” meted out to the batch just a year senior to me by the HR that dropped in from Calcutta (if I’m not wrong).
Since the number of firms visiting the campus is close to 75, 70 being the number that has a liking for mechanical engineers (God knows why ?) and again I being a mechanical engineering “hopeful”, brings down my employability probability or EP to 3/70 or 4.28% .
Should that bug me ? Well in a way yes. But on the other hand, No. The answer is indecision. If I have somehow convinced myself to be a software engineer doing what every 3rd engineer in the subcontinent does,having resigned myself to my fate, I need not worry.
But then that puts all the mechanical engineering gibberish that I’ve put up with for four years down the drain (not that I care) and the perks that come along with a job at ITC or say some PSU to near impossibility.
Decisions and a chronic thought process, constantly weighing outcomes breeds negativity. That’s just rephrasing a very famous quote from the Bhagwad Gita (you know which one).
I realised this very early in my life. There’s never a second chance. That helps, impedes the thinking part and pumps in adrenalin, literally. It’s either Yes or No. Simple.
Disclaimer Should my CPI jump up to where I’d like to see it, I’ll have no qualms rendering an unconditional apology to whosoever has read this post.
