Economy in shambles, jobless engineers turn salesmen, clerks in Andhra Pradesh

FluteHolder wrote:http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/economy-in-shambles-jobless-engineers-turn-salesmen-clerks-in-andhra-pradesh-411198?pfrom=home-lateststories

Medak: A television set plays the debate on India's economy in Parliament as Vikram attends to customers at a provisions store in Shankarpalli mandal of Medak district in Andhra Pradesh. Scornful of the deliberation far away in India's capital, he sees no hope of things changing for the better.

Vikram has a reason. The 24-year-old has an engineering degree in Information Technology, and yet is forced to work in the shop after a desperate two-year-long search for a job.
 
With the economy in shambles, jobs are hard to come by in Andhra Pradesh. Just 15-20 per cent of the aspirants are landing up jobs in a state with the highest number of engineering colleges in the country.


For the remaining engineers, job means working as salesmen selling grocery and electronic goods, or working as government clerks or nursery school teachers; anything that comes by as long as you can earn a living.
 
"Out of 130 students in our college, just 20 got into IT; that too call centre technical support. They're working for 6000-7000 rupees," says Vikram's former classmate Srinivas.
 
Srinivas, relieved at being selected for a government job as stores in-charge, gives a revealing example, "The Medak ordnance factory got more than 80,000 applications - mostly from engineers - for 90 labour posts it advertised recently. The qualification was tenth pass."
 
"What a mismatch. Can these people sweep and clean machines?" he asks.

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

What these newspapers dont say is a big chunk of these engineering students flunk subjects and retake and retake. It is not like these are great students with high marks and languishing without proper jobs.

I just sent this news item to my cousin who is in his 3rd year, and told him if he did not do very well, he will have a tough time getting a decent job. (Not that the idiot will read it)

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

What these newspapers dont say is a big chunk of these engineering students flunk subjects and retake and retake. It is not like these are great students with high marks and languishing without proper jobs.

I just sent this news item to my cousin who is in his 3rd year, and told him if he did not do very well, he will have a tough time getting a decent job.  (Not that the idiot will read it)

there you go with your daily dose of nonsense. First of all you are making a lot of assumptions even if we assume it is true what should they do dropout instead of retaking the test and pass. No wonder your cousin gives two hoots to your half baked ideas

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

What these newspapers dont say is a big chunk of these engineering students flunk subjects and retake and retake. It is not like these are great students with high marks and languishing without proper jobs.

I just sent this news item to my cousin who is in his 3rd year, and told him if he did not do very well, he will have a tough time getting a decent job.  (Not that the idiot will read it)

there you go with your daily dose of nonsense. First of all you are making a lot of assumptions even if we assume it is true what should they do dropout instead of retaking the test and pass. No wonder your cousin gives two hoots to your half baked ideas

Repeat after me...there is no solution to any problem without making any assumption.

Now...who said they should drop out ? Why would the company take a guy who has flunked 10 subject 10 times when there are 5 others who flunked only 2 subjects twice?  

Let me explain further so your Dumpkopf can get it.  A few years ago, these guys would not have entered any college and would have gone straight to porter job. Nowadays, the so-so guys get a second chance when they get into engineering colleges. They should get serious and put in the effort to redeem their rotten life (till then). If they continued their "porter-mindset" in their 4-year of college, they will fail and fail and fail and when they finally (are) pass(ed), they will only end up as porters.

See if you can write to the ToI and get the Marks/grades of those sales guys.  These are just porters - morn to be porters - just that they have a degree.

Why dont you find their addresses and give them a code coolie job in your firm?

confuzzled dude wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rishi wrote:This is not new.

Even 25 years ago, I read in the newspaper there were two engineering graduates working as porters at the Central Railway station, Chennai.

What these newspapers dont say is a big chunk of these engineering students flunk subjects and retake and retake. It is not like these are great students with high marks and languishing without proper jobs.

I just sent this news item to my cousin who is in his 3rd year, and told him if he did not do very well, he will have a tough time getting a decent job.  (Not that the idiot will read it)

there you go with your daily dose of nonsense. First of all you are making a lot of assumptions even if we assume it is true what should they do dropout instead of retaking the test and pass. No wonder your cousin gives two hoots to your half baked ideas

Repeat after me...there is no solution to any problem without making any assumption.

Now...who said they should drop out ? Why would the company take a guy who has flunked 10 subject 10 times when there are 5 others who flunked only 2 subjects twice?  

Let me explain further so your Dumpkopf can get it.  A few years ago, these guys would not have entered any college and would have gone straight to porter job. Nowadays, the so-so guys get a second chance when they get into engineering colleges. They should get serious and put in the effort to redeem their rotten life (till then). If they continued their "porter-mindset" in their 4-year of college, they will fail and fail and fail and when they finally (are) pass(ed), they will only end up as porters.

See if you can write to the ToI and get the Marks/grades of those sales guys.  These are just porters - morn to be porters - just that they have a degree.

Why dont you find their addresses and give them a code coolie job in your firm?

More blah from Gyani