Pathos of an Engineer

Engineers are one of the most underrated professionals in India. And the reason behind this, are the Engineers themselves.

“Engineers have made the life of people unnecessarily easy and simple.”

Any retard becomes eligible to use a smart-phone, just because he has enough bucks in his wallet. This is just not done. You have to be smart to use a smart-phone.

Take the case of Doctors. These useless creatures used to carry some herbs in a jute bag and used to roam around in villages to loot ailing people. We gave them stethoscope, syringe, needle, forceps, X-ray machine, ECG machine and what not. And today, these buggers are making twice the money we make.

Any common retard is enjoying all the luxuries, we engineers developed after years of hard work. And then, they underpay us for our genius efforts. We just won’t let their life be simple anymore.

How easily they read the number displayed in a bus, and cause unnecessary unimportant crowd? The number displays of public buses should read like this.

First solve the above equation and then get to know the bus number and the desired route. And obviously, if you are unable to solve the above equation, you do not qualify to use a calculator either. To buy a gel pen, you have to tell the chemical composition of the pigment used and the working mechanism of the ink reservoir and the barrel. To get a bottle of mineral water, you at least have to know the atomic numbers of hydrogen and oxygen. All the cold drink cans should be password protected after you buy them. You can get the password only if you solve the puzzle printed on the can itself. And you will get only three trials. After the third trial, the cold drink will turn into shit.

To buy a calculator, you at least have to be a diploma holder in any engineering discipline. To buy a smart-phone, you have to submit your B. Tech mark sheet along with a written test. To buy a laptop, you should have a PhD. thesis in your name. To be able to sign up for Facebook, you should have invented something of large social use or given any scientific theory duly acknowledged by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And to be able to sign up for Google+ you should possess all the above qualities.

Jokes apart. India is not a very technologically advanced country. And the reason is that, we do not celebrate technology or creativity. We celebrate politicians. We celebrate movie stars. We celebrate cricketers. And then we celebrate corruption. We celebrate money (The commerce guys make a living out of that). We celebrate kinship. But we never celebrate technology. Mark Zuckerberg is a celebrity in America. I don’t think Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Dr. Har Gobind Khorana and Dr. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar were ever considered as celebrities in their own country. They are often referred as boring creatures in the cool language. And that is why we don’t see a Mark Zuckerberg in India. Very rarely people want to go to the research field. We are alienating ourselves from the real deal and making ourselves dependable on the cold countries.

Today, as a part of my anti-boredom campaign, let’s celebrate the spirit of technical education and let’s celebrate being engineers.

All Izz Well...2

Every morning I get up and decide.

‘Today I will stay happy.’

On most of the days, I am happy. But as a matter of fact, there are days when I do not live up to my expectations. And that is because; my happiness is related to the happiness of few more persons. So today, I take the pain to educate all these ignorant people about the simple fact in life that, ‘Situations may not be at your control, but staying happy is completely your choice.’ 

Let us understand this by using Stephen Covey’s 90/10 principle.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. We cannot escape getting drenched or falling in a ditch while going to office. We cannot escape getting stuck in a traffic jam. We cannot sometimes escape bird shit falling over us. (My bird shitting accident rate is 3 Nos. per year.) We sometimes also cannot escape our boss shitting on us. We cannot escape a flat tyre, a common cold, an ATM failure or a pimple. We have no control over this 10%.

The other 90% is different. We determine the other 90% by our reaction. You cannot control a red light. But you can control your reaction. Don't let people fool you; YOU can control how you react. Let’s take an example.

Your boss is shouting at you for no genuine reasons.

Reaction 1: You start an argument, trying to justify your point. You forget that your boss is an ass. You come to your desk. You punch over your workstation. The coffee spills over important documents. You shout at the housekeeping boys. (Next time, they spit on the coffee before they bring it for you.) You leave from office. You shout at the driver for traffic jam. Your roommate has arranged a surprise for you. You shout at him too. He does not allow you to have pleasure with him that night.

Reaction 2: Graciously you accept whatever your boss says. You come back to your desk. You make a cartoon of your boss and upload it on Facebook. (There are many other ways too:Fire your boss.)You get numerous funny comments on it. All your friends curse your boss together. You show the cartoon to the housekeeping staff as well. They sympathize you. You feel nice. You leave office, enjoy the drive. You get stuck in a traffic jam. You enjoy Facebook. You reciprocate the surprise arranged by your roommate. And you spend the night with pleasure, with your roommate.

Always try to make yourself believe that, things could have been even worse than they are. Your daughter has failed in exams. You can choose to curse her, shout at her and cut down her pocket money. Or you can choose to believe that things could have been even worse. She could have been addicted to smoking, drinking, drugs, boyfriends, had sex with a stranger and get pregnant and stolen all your money and gave it to the stranger. You can choose to encourage her or promise her an i-phone. She can do exceptionally well in her exams next time.

Never let the ‘It’s okay’ attitude die within you. Always remember, life is what we make it. At every point of your life, you will have only two options. Either you react with a smile or you react with a frown.

The choice is yours. Learn to say.

All Izz Well....!