Why do Indians want to be engineers

OK, guys, when I said, "Why Indians want to be..." I actually meant "Why are Indian parents forcing their children to be engineers". So, why do we want to be engineers? Like... WHY? You guys have thousands of other job opportunities and fields but you still chose these two jobs (engineering and medicine) again and again and again. Are you guys that dumb? But let's put all of that behind us. In this article, we are going to plunge into what really is the hype with Indians and this job, how it actually became a hype, and why it is irrelevant nowadays.

THE ENGINEERING HYPE

Honestly speaking, this is the most outdated of any Indian hype and is still being viewed as one. Like, most engineers think that they're gonna drive a train or something after graduation! Most engineers don't even know what they are studying. They just go to college so that they can get a degree and get a job and support their families. That's it! They don't have any passion, no innovation, or any interest to pursue their interests. Sure, most families in India can't afford to let their child pursue his/her passion but if they have the financial backup to produce 1.5 million engineers each year, then I wouldn't say that they didn't have money.

Now let's look at stats. First of all, there are three tiers of engineering colleges in India

                      Tier 1- Dem prestigious universities (Like IIT)

                      Tier 2- Da less prestigious ones. They are state-sponsored or private 

                      Tier 3- Private colleges

The one thing which is to be noted that the majority of engineering certificate holders are from Tiers 2&3. So most of the time, if your father has a grip on the management (because everything depends on your father), a seat will be there for you along with a free degree at the end. But here is the fun part- Companies don't really care about whether you have a B.Tech or M.Tech. All they want is innovation, the spirit of company culture, or in another word, quality. And quality is something that most engineering students don't really have. They got the degree cause their family said so. Now they can't get a job even though Indian society says so. That'll be a moment of rebuttal at the society. 

Now about the money. If y'all are talking about money, let's begin with the richest in India. The richest 1% in India has 73% of the total wealth of the country, and the poorest (est. 645 million) just saw that their wealth had risen by 1%. So, for people like them, engineering is the only option (apart from medicine, which is kinda expensive)

Looking back now, the hype for engineering began during the time when India allowed foreign direct investment and the need for engineers sprung up in various metropolitan cities. So, engineering became "the job and the norm and the life" which was to be lived, loved, and enjoyed. So Indian parents, wishing the best for their child, told them (more like ordered them) to be an engineer. So they did, and this became the unspoken code of conduct (or something like that) until the number of engineers became far greater than the number of engineers required. So now, in India, there are thousands of engineering graduates, who, due to their parents' will, had to be an engineer and are now unemployed. And there are more Indian engineers who have to work for jobs that have literally no relation to what they used to study. 

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