I Opened rediiff and IBN Live today morning happily to read some columns on India’s yet another victory (yipeeeeeee…Something to cheer about in these gloomy times) in NZ. And guess what the 1st Headlines were… “Infosys opts out of campus recruitment” & “Global economy shrinks, India loses 5 lakh jobs”. God I skipped a beat. Where is our economy headed? Every one is talking about the number of job losses, but no one talks about the future of those lakhs of students who will be passing out this year. What about them man. Where will they find jobs in this gloomy marker scenario?
I had gone to my college last week. I did my engineering from there. Four best years of my life. It was really Nostalgic. I just loved the feeling to be back in that campus where life was so care free. Went to eat My favorite “ Samosa” in the canteen. Meet all ma teachers. And I could feel the heaviness in my heart out of that nostalgic feeling. Suddenly a dialogue from the movie RDB hit me hard “ Campus ke is aur hum zindagi ko nachate hain to campus ke us aur Zindagi hume nachati hai “. I hadn’t realized its meaning while I was watching the movie, but how true it seems today.
I was moving from 1 teacher’s cabin to another pondering over this dialogue, trying to map its meaning with my life. Suddenly I saw our Favorite Lab teacher. We jus loved him, for the kinda help he was, in the lab. I greeted him and started talking to him. He told me he got married last month and that he was sorry that he couldn’t call any of us, as everything happened very fast. I congratulated him and said its fine. I can understand.
But it made me question myself “Even if he would have called me, whether I would have found time out of the busy and hectic life to go and congratulate the couple.” “How many marriages of friends and family have I attended after my engineering? And the answer hit me “NONE” .
But I was pulled out of my imaginative world by another of his statements.“You know it’s already March and not a single company has come to our college for recruitment. Not even 1 student from 6th sem is placed till now”.“Oh God” were the 1st words from my mouth. A couple of years back nearly 80% of our college was placed at the start of 6th sem. I asked whether students have gone and talked to our placement cell. He said students have been told that they shouldn’t even expect any placements this year. And if any of them have any relatives in any of the companies they should ask there relatives to come to the college for recruitments. I was horrified. What about these students who has slogged there asses for 4 years in search of a glorious future. I was feeling so sorry for these students.
I wished that time I had a magic wand in my hand. I would have changed the whole job scenario. Every one would have found a job.That moment I had a feeling of satisfaction that we have opened this website “ThePartimers” for providing Part Time jobs to Students. At least these students can work part time and earn valuable experience and some money. Part Time work can neva substitute Full Time work but, “Something is always better than nothing”. So at least Students can work and get something out of it. Hope the economy stops shrinking soon enough for these 6th sem students to find jobs before they finish there 8th sem.
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