Choosing the Right Job!!!

As we have discussed the current situation of telecom industry in my previous blog with the topic of “Need of Career Counseling”, here we will discuss some options for the choice of right career for us. As it has been our normal trend, that students try to get internships in their student life. From this opportunity, we can have better exposure of telecom industry & can have better prospect on our future.

In last few years, it has been observed that telecom is adopted as a profession by the people even with different educational background just due to the boom in telecom industry. Just one interesting example to share with you that before two years ago, once I had chance to visit the office of a telecom operator (for an interview J), my class fellow introduced me a guy who was working in operations but was just MBA with no telecom background is working in telecom operations. What do you analyzed from it? A guy having MBA degree with simple BA or B. Sc working in telecom field, is it not just due to the boom of telecom industry?

Situation of Pakistan telecom job market which is generally considered as private cellular companies is worst than ever before. This is just due to more outcome of students than the number of jobs in market. People adopt telecom just due to its name but they do not think that if a good programmer is entering in telecom field, he / she is doing two crimes, first one ruining a good programmer, second one is that snatching the vacancy of a good telecom engineer.

There are many fields in which a telecom engineer can go which are Networks, Programming, Software Development & Evaluation, R & D, Technical Writing, Control Systems, Automation. Teaching nowadays is also a good profession. Students pursuing for further education can go to teaching field as well. Even, public sector organizations are offering a number of opportunities nowadays.

No doubt that these all fields are inter-related but there is still a difference. On some places there is need of programmers in telecom as well but may be while going to a software house, a programmer may get different advantages like more incentives, polish his technical as well as management skills, can have better future in long term plans. But now when entering in telecom industry, it has not very good chances to reach your desired target which causes frustration as whenever you see your peer in a better position than you then it can cause negativity which can affect overall performance. However, this is not right in every case. Exceptions are always there.

Just imagine that if any of us has entered in telecom operations, but after two years of such a difficult job, he has come to know that he had interest in software development then where he /she will consider his last two years spent in telecom as this experience will be useless for him.

So there is really a need to know our own interest & try to go to that field. The above mentioned fields are also relevant to telecom so we can be the part of telecom industry while adopting these fields (mainly programming & networks). So to join these fields can have bright chance for our future. The same is the case while considering the situation in vice versa, as for example, I am in now telecom industry. Now, I think that if I adopted to work in some software house as a programmer then I can never be successful as I have lesser interest in programming than telecom. So with all other options, it is not less important to have known you interests while choosing some profession. For this purpose, we can get guidance from our seniors as well.

May be some of us can think that I have some conflicts about my views as in another blog “How to Enter in Telecom” that just go for first available opportunity. Discussing this as today market is also saturated so whenever having some opportunity can be availed but to move to your desired job as soon as possible. Next time, I am thinking to write on a very hot topic “Creating References” which will cover hot issues of our telecom industry. Just work hard & trust in ALLAH Almighty as hard work can never be useless. Hope to see you soon insha ALLAH. May ALLAH bless all of us.