Often underpaid and under-appreciated, engineers work for the betterment of the people around them. They do thankless jobs and get their hands (and clothes) dirty so that you don’t have to.
But it’s not all that bad. Sometimes, it’s pretty awesome to be an engineer. Why?
Your life revolves around making things easy for people.
While doctors make sure that you live a healthy life, engineers make sure that you get to safely spend that healthy life. From comfortable homes to easy-to-operate household machines, bridges, gadgets, everything that makes you lead a comfortable, luxurious lifestyle, you can be sure there’s an engineer’s efforts behind it all.
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You get paid (handsomely) for thinking outside the box.
Engineers are artists. Not many people would agree to that, but that is a fact. It’s a fact because unlike some other professions, engineers work on things that are physical – roads, bridges, buildings, machines, gadgets. And the designing of these tangible things lets you play around with designs and lets you loosen your creativity! Just look at the Metro Bus Project (not that we needed it, but khair..) Also, all of this pays you handsomely!
Note: This doesn’t apply to the people at Suzuki who produce Mehran cars.
You are NEVER bored of your work.
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Monotony is a word unknown to engineers. The thing with engineers is that they have to adapt to change. Every passing day brings a change in people’s perception of comfort and luxury. Engineers need to be on their toes at all times to realize these changes and make sure that they find a way to find fixes for them. Which is why…
You are ALWAYS in demand.
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As long as humans exist, there will be the need of better homes, better buildings, and better roads to travel on, better cars to drive in, faster airplanes to travel in, luxurious watches to wear, and whatnot! As long as humans exist, there will be the need for these ‘basic’ necessities. There will be machines, there will be electricity, there will be roads. For all of this, engineers will ALWAYS be needed. So regardless of how underappreciated engineers may feel sometimes, they can be sure that without them, the world would be a much darker place.
(Note: Please refer to the severe shortage of bijli, gas, saaf paani, roads, and high-tech hospital machinery in Pakistan, and you’d know I’m not kidding)
You can be sure of a promising, fulfilling career.
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Engineering students go through a rigorous four or five-year study period filled with plenty of tiring, sleepless nights. It’s this very rigorous regime that lets engineers have a fulfilling career that gives them time to work, enjoy their lives, and choose the career path that they prefer.
Freedom of choosing your own career path.
The thing with these engineering studies is that they open your eyes, heart, brain, and every other organ in your body, to different avenues of learning new things. Which is why engineers can have the luxury to choose how they wish to spend their careers. They can venture into sales, maintenance, management, designing, business, art, medicine, law, and find plenty of sarkari naukriyan as well.
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You are hugely-respected (sometimes even more than doctors).
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Engineering is a highly-respected field of study. In Pakistan, every person that can fix things is called an engineer. Even when you’re a young engineering student in university, your parents would ask you to fix the blender, toaster, and every other machine in the house, ask you to do all the electrical wiring and tell you to fix the cracks on the walls. If you’re a jugaroo and know how to fix things, you’re automatically deemed a master of the engineering arts.
Preference in getting rishtay.
Yes! This is true! If you’re an engineer, it is highly likely that you’d get a good rishta just because you’re an engineer! Being completely stereotypical, if parents of a sundar, susheel larki are given the option of choosing a dulha for their daughter, and if it comes down to choosing between an engineer and an accountant or an artist, for example, you know who’d get the nod in most cases.
You possess the ability to change the present bad times into good times.
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In Pakistan, there is a dearth of quality engineers. But regardless, we have been blessed with top-notch engineers such as Dr. Shahid Hussain Bokhari and Dr. Javaid Laghari, among many others. Moreso, we have a highly-talented younger generation of engineers coming up through every corner of the country that possesses the ability to turn our bad times into better times. Because let’s face it, every singly politician is hell-bent on sucking every ounce of energy from this beautiful land.
Pakistan is a country that runs more on ‘Maa ki Dua’ and Divine involvement rather than on devised policies and properly-functioning systems. Engineers are rarely hailed as heroes for bringing about positive changes in the lives of Pakistanis. But they still carry on working to make Pakistan a brighter, better, safer place to live.
As an engineer myself, I vow to do the same. (Unless I get my immigration to Canada approved! – just kiidddiiiingg!)