Indian mindboggling demographics - Boon or bane

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I was talking to some in India - works as an Architect. He was laughing that no girl will marry him for the salary he is making Rs 30,000 as an architect.  Another guy switched to IT from manufacturing as girls repeatedly turned him down unless he switched to IT (and the A/C white collar job) with higher pay. He did and ended up in US after 2 years as a code coolie.

smArtha wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I was talking to some in India - works as an Architect. He was laughing that no girl will marry him for the salary he is making Rs 30,000 as an architect.  Another guy switched to IT from manufacturing as girls repeatedly turned him down unless he switched to IT (and the A/C white collar job) with higher pay. He did and ended up in US after 2 years as a code coolie.

Last year, back in India, we hired two priests (brothers in mid to late 20s) to conduct a pooja/ritual. They inherited about 300+ client families and contacts. Each of them averages around Rs. 1-1.5 lakhs in monthly earnings. Yet no girls were willing to marry them - even those from priestly families. The older one who was approaching the 30 threshold got super vexed trying for about 5 years and finally managed to marry his maternal uncle's daughter (10th pass) working on elders from both sides in resolving decades old differences. The younger one was remarking to me that his chances are way superior if he held a Rs 10-15K/month IT job than 10 times that as a Priest.

confuzzled dude wrote:Bane. Overpopulation is never good. The best India ever did was to create 3 million jobs a year and here we're talking about 10s of millions joining the workforce every year. I'm afraid this will be worse than the '70s and '80s situation. There will be mass migrations out of India (exodus), as Indian service or manufacturing sectors won't be able to absorb all these folks. All the billions of dollars that are supposedly coming into India are not to create jobs rather to target the consumer so they won't do jack to help alleviate the situation.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

smArtha wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I was talking to some in India - works as an Architect. He was laughing that no girl will marry him for the salary he is making Rs 30,000 as an architect.  Another guy switched to IT from manufacturing as girls repeatedly turned him down unless he switched to IT (and the A/C white collar job) with higher pay. He did and ended up in US after 2 years as a code coolie.

Last year, back in India, we hired two priests (brothers in mid to late 20s) to conduct a pooja/ritual. They inherited about 300+ client families and contacts. Each of them averages around Rs. 1-1.5 lakhs in monthly earnings. Yet no girls were willing to marry them - even those from priestly families. The older one who was approaching the 30 threshold got super vexed trying for about 5 years and finally managed to marry his maternal uncle's daughter (10th pass) working on elders from both sides in resolving decades old differences. The younger one was remarking to me that his chances are way superior if he held a Rs 10-15K/month IT job than 10 times that as a Priest.

The priests are in short supply and they seem to make a big killing. Unfortunately, the other factors - status and standing - come into play, and perception plays the biggest role in this.

It is all about the IT Maya.

smArtha wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
I was talking to some in India - works as an Architect. He was laughing that no girl will marry him for the salary he is making Rs 30,000 as an architect.  Another guy switched to IT from manufacturing as girls repeatedly turned him down unless he switched to IT (and the A/C white collar job) with higher pay. He did and ended up in US after 2 years as a code coolie.

Last year, back in India, we hired two priests (brothers in mid to late 20s) to conduct a pooja/ritual. They inherited about 300+ client families and contacts. Each of them averages around Rs. 1-1.5 lakhs in monthly earnings. Yet no girls were willing to marry them - even those from priestly families. The older one who was approaching the 30 threshold got super vexed trying for about 5 years and finally managed to marry his maternal uncle's daughter (10th pass) working on elders from both sides in resolving decades old differences. The younger one was remarking to me that his chances are way superior if he held a Rs 10-15K/month IT job than 10 times that as a Priest.

SomeProfile wrote:

smArtha wrote:

Last year, back in India, we hired two priests (brothers in mid to late 20s) to conduct a pooja/ritual. They inherited about 300+ client families and contacts. Each of them averages around Rs. 1-1.5 lakhs in monthly earnings. Yet no girls were willing to marry them - even those from priestly families. The older one who was approaching the 30 threshold got super vexed trying for about 5 years and finally managed to marry his maternal uncle's daughter (10th pass) working on elders from both sides in resolving decades old differences. The younger one was remarking to me that his chances are way superior if he held a Rs 10-15K/month IT job than 10 times that as a Priest.

Those priests should look at migrating to the US. This is what I have noticed about many young Hindu priests in the US:

confuzzled dude wrote:Speaking of Priests, my father is a member of local temple management team, a year and half ago, they hired a priest to replace the one that had left and this guy turned out to be a cheat, he ran away with a bike my father loaned him along with the cash from temple Hundi. Apparently, this guy has been doing this sort of stuff for a while and many police cases were already filed against him.