Job Satisfaction
I heard my elder
friend being told by his father, I am not a professional in the field you are
desiring advice. Only what I can do is to take you to my senior colleagues in
office who may be in a position to advise. The query may have to be raised by
you after the introduction and it is you to understand from him /her.
On a later date I
came to know that the query was a basic confusion--- which of the job offers to
be accepted. The condition was that there were many offers in hand which have
been shortlisted to two. He was utterly confused to decide between the two to
arrive at the final conclusion.
His opinion as told
to me was to go for the job in which he fits as per his academics but it was
less paying than the other one – not in line with academics.
Other day he accompanied
father to his office and as advised met a senior officer, who commanded respect
as an officer and also as a person in the society. First having known about the
basic issue the officer wanted to know my
friends view who conveyed it the way it was told to me.
The officer had a
hearty laughter. My friend got further confused feeling that the laughter is
making mockery of him.
Then started, the
sincere discussions between the officer and my friend. The officer communicated
that – Like all of you I have also tried for my job, with a view to work in the
field of my academics.
I did not get one in
that field, rather I have got offer for this “Class I” officer’s post. I have
joined it with the feeling that some job is required at least to be independent.
It was remuneration, which was basic priority for me then, rather than type of
work. But once joined, I am not mentally ready to change to another, wherein I
shall be paid less than what I am getting today. So in the process, I being the
first class first post graduate in Statistics, am now counting the wagons in the railways. No
relation of job requirement and my academics.
Might be you think, I would have
enjoyed the job in line with the academics better but now that I already
have a few years experience and am in touch with friends from other academic
fields – I understand from all my friends that the charm of “my academic field /
arena” is very short lived. The monotony of the work in the one’s own academic arena
gets him bored and exhausted after a few
years (may be 2-3), AND THE SAME FRUSTRATES HIM REST OF HIS LIFE.
The best
answer to the issue is to switch over to a new job in different academics. And
as me , no one will like to go for a lower remuneration and looking towards
friends drawing better salary – perks in the fields away from own academics –
calls for further frustration.
Now that you have
the two shortlisted offers – my advice will be to go for the one, which pays
more unless otherwise the work is disliked by you. Not liking is something
different from Disliking. May be in due course
of time you get any other better offer you may shift / jump over to that one.
It is not only you
but all students during their first job get stuck at this issue only, so was I. The years of experience and feeling from
other friends and colleagues lets me know that it is remuneration which
ultimately counts. Yes, it is said that - money is the means and not the goal of
life. But then without means goals can’t be achieved – therefore money takes
primary seat for the goal. With the economics deteriorating and costs escalating day
by day you may get nothing cheaper today than yesterday and at every walk of
life, money pays an important role. Your technologies will get outdated after
may be 10 years and you may not be update with it – but then money becomes more
and more important every day. Therefore it is better to leave the affection to
the academic arena and go for the better remunerating job.
During those days
education was the first charity. It was very cheap. Now education is the main
business. Parents have to spend a fortune to make the ward a professional. But
then all the parents are not able to cope up with the hefty requirement. Fortunately, banks have lent the helping hand by issuing
soft student loans. Now the students have to repay in terms of EMI alongwith
the interest. This is additional burden on the present day students. Therefore
they will have to be more inclined towards the remuneration besides anything as
compulsion.
Yes there is a parameter called job satisfaction – which again is short lived.
Same monotonous works cause trouble there too. There may be a few counts who may be able to change
their job within or beyond the organization and continue to get the offers from
the same academics and differing fields – but then it is extremely difficult to
fall in this bracket. World is too large to hope for such favours.
M.R.Iyengar.
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