BaKhabar, January 2012, Page-6

better light a candle than curse the darkness

Starting a Career v/s doing Masters: What should Graduates choose?
No doubt after spending a lot of efforts, money & time for getting a Bachelor Degree, everyone wants to earn money to compensate these entire prime factors. But it’s time to think widely comparing our dream job, the money we can earn, the area of our interest, the saturation time of our life span & off course further opportunity to study a bit more to add a feather in our cap. We have to spend our time to think & realize about our long term goals with comparing the every aspects of our professional carrier.
Lets start with simple factors, after getting a degree from an university, our prime target is to earn money. But we used to forget that we are in the era of competition. Every day we need some updates to make us alive in this competitive age. If we simply fail to grab an opportunity in our campus selection (where we get a god salary) the life becomes tough after the left turn outside our campuses.
Now this time is the time where we should sit alone and think about our prime targets or such called the priorities of our life. We should compare different opportunities in wide area of our related education. My ancestor used to tell “Padhai Kabhi Bekar Nai Jati” meaning education never goes in-vain, which we realize after spending some time during our professional carrier. No doubt earning can compensate all the expenditure of our effort & time but that should be Good Earning with the area of interest.
Let’s start with an example of two friends from same educational as well as financial background “TAHA & HETA”. Taha & Heta both did not find any placement from their campus and started their job search, although they are mechanical engineer. Taha found a job of Mechanical Engineer in a company with a salry of 20,000. Heta was not lucky enough to get the job. Both need money to support their family. Heta tried tried but unfortunately every time he visit the company he got the rejection on the account of experience, some time on the account of different tools used in the industry. Heta spent again some money to learn some software tools to groom his Mechanical Degree but failed.

Finally one day Heta while surfing internet found some scholarships website of DAAD & Erasmus, who used to sponsor students from developing country to do masters in some fields. Heta found some time they need GRE, GMAT & sometime IELTS exams to start the process. Heta decided to invest some initial amount to sit in the required exam IELTS for his area of interest while his thirst of job meaning search of job was going on parallel. At the end of four months he still did not find any job while Taha already saved some 50,000 during this time. But this time the opportunity knocked at the door of Heta and landed him in Erasmus Program to do his master in the area of Automobile. He happily left the country because the master program was fully funded. He just spended time to write some applications ans emails and yes he got the scholarship funded by the organization which by which he was getting around 1000 euro per month.
When Heta was on the way to Europe Taha met and told, “It’s time to earn why the hell you are going for the master when your family need the money and apart of that at the end of two year you will again face problems to start the carrier while at that time I will have some two year of experience”. He smilied and left.

He started getting 1000 euro per month in which he used to save 300 euro per month. During his study he got some opportunity to work with professor where he utilized his early learnt software tools and again earned some money to buy the luxurious gadgets of his time. After two years he earned almost 7200 euro with an European master degree. He went back to his country and found a job where he appointed as an assistant of Taha. But he was happy and even Taha was also happy to be Heta’s boss. But due an international exposure both were earning same at that time.

After spending few years when both reached at the age of 35, they got a chance for promotion as the project manager. Although Taha was having more experience than Heta, but Company choosed Heta due to the the better understanding of subject which he learnt due to his master. Taha felt that his life saturated at that post and with the salary. Now it was the time to take the advantage to earn a lot and move a bit more than his friend for Heta just because he thought for a long run and spent some more time on further studies.
So after our graduation if one is earning 25,000 per month then it’s better to think and search for some funded master program which only needs your hard work on documentation. Although you can’t earn that much but if one can save money from his scholarship then he can support his family with at-least 15,000 per month in worst condition. But life after master can land you at-least at better position than the graduation. This story implies not only for engineering degree holders but for all graduating backgrounds. Just think widely and compare the opportunity.

If you need assistance you can contact the author for some guidelines at tabish4u17@hotmail.com

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