Have you started to build your identity as an engineer?

We live in a world where having an identity is very essential and difficult too.

On a funny note I am not talking about having a voter id or adhaar card.

I am talking about having an identity in your social and professional life.

What is engineering?

Wikipedia says, "Engineering is the discipline, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific,

Economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures,

Machines, devices, systems, materials and processes".

I know you are thinking this guy must be a developer, simply copied the definition from Wikipedia. Yes if you think copy and paste is very simple and anybody can do that. But it’s your misconception. Reusing of code is very important, time saving and essential technique in software engineering. In engineering you will have to do many things.  If an engineer builds some system which already exists, don’t just think that he just built the copy of an existing system. There will 100 reasons behind building that. There is no end for evolution which is the major and last phase of SDLC.

What I think is "One day god was tired of creating new and good things in this world, and then he thought of creating an engineer, who will do that job".  So proud to be an engineer.

In today's world there are 3 types of engineers.

First they want to get a good job in some very reputed company. Good salary, luxury in life and fun with family.

Second they want to do something in life, but they are not able put any efforts towards their goals. Constraints can be many.

Third they want to do something very special in their life and want to gain a real identity. They dont want to go behind a Sheep like just another sheep.

Here third category is very interesting and this category has people like

Larry Ellison (Oracle)

Steve Jobs (Apple)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and many other great engineers cum entrepreneurs.

Dear budding engineer, analyze yourself and decide which category you fall into. You are an engineer you should be hungry for knowledge and should have great urge to build new things by making use of your knowledge. 

Trust me you can change the people's life with your creations. Mark Zuckerberg has proved it already. And as the title of this article says you need to build your identity as an engineer, but how do it. The only way to have a great identity in the world of engineering is by your work. Trust me "Your work is your identity". This line exists from ages. But it is still true even in case of engineers. 

You are an engineer.

Analyze and think

What is your present knowledge?

What can I build with it?

Do I need to increase my knowledge?

What do I have to learn to implement my idea?

Is my idea valid? Discuss with your fellow engineers

Love your work, Build, change the world and get your identity.  And of course be proud of your work. There is nothing wrong in it.

                                                                                               by

                                                                        MAHALINGESH MADANSHETTI

Friends how many of us are doing a job which was really a dream come true and how many of us are into that kind of job wherein its just fulfilling our materialistic requirements rather than job satisfaction. Think over guys. So here is a beautiful article by our friend Mr. Mahalingesh that triggers your thought process. Understanding his concept is a vital key to improving the quality of your life.