You are 18 yrs old & you have to take one of the biggest decisions of your career, you have a job, a public sector one which pays you fairly enough on one hand and a prestigious college giving you a degree on the other hand. What would you select? Would you go for college, a place you are longing to go from your 12th STD, a place where you could enjoy for four- five years with just studies to care about… nothing else, no responsibilities no headache…:p, or would you go for a job where you could see yourself as an officer 5 years down the line. Let me explain further.



After 12th boards I didn’t study well so as expected I wasn’t getting a college through aieee.

I wasn’t allowed to go to a college by donation so I had to take drop! I knew I had to do maths… just maths rest i.e. drawing and aptitude was not a problem.

After about a month or so my father saw an advertisement about an exam for recruitment of clerks in bank. I was told about it & my first reaction was…” Yuk!! Hell no!! I m not doing it… I don’t want to be a clerk” I thought it to be a menial job. Still I filled the form half heartedly... L

A weak later I was taken to my uncle who is a bank employee as well. He told me it was not a menial job! Rather it was quite a prestigious job. I would have bank balance... ;) Of my own!! Could buy loads of footwear clothes gadgets and so on. Still I wasn’t sure about it. Then I was told that it would take me 5 years to do my architecture n still there was no guarantee that I would be getting a job, n on the other hand if I join in here I could complete my graduation in three years and could give promotional tests and moreover it was a public sector job so there was job guarantee…

Then I had started feeling that job was the correct way to go… Maybe god had planned this for me. I had around three months for the bank exam & I worked hard. My exam went well… J

Now there was around 5 months for my aieee exam & I didn’t feel like studying for it, I had made up my mind for the job. And there came my ban exam result after around three months & I was selected…J.All this while I never studied just enjoyed with friends n spent my time on facebook. Still there was no guarantee that I would get a job so I studied for a month for aieee n the paper went better than last time… I got a rank in which I could get nit Raipur!

It was then when I told my friends & my relatives about it. My relatives were delighted to know this. But most of my friends didn’t want me to go for job. They said I go for college. It is a better life there. They said I would be missing a lot if I go for job, it is a part of life which every one should live. Hostels, hangover, bunking classes, crushes and so on…. I would be missing all these things… rather I would have to work with oldies… I should enjoy these 5 years of my life…

I am so confused…L sometimes I feel like going to college n sometimes I feel I should go for the job. L What should I do? Please advice!