People end up working and not contributing when they are attracted by the outer glamor of some jobs!
Industry itself does not provide graduates with a vision for their life.
Twenty years ago, an earlier generation pretty much knew what they were going to do with themselves – that they are going to join a particular company and they are going to spend the next twenty years there.
Today when people join IT, they don’t know what is going to happen to them 3-4 years down the line. They know vaguely that they are going to go abroad, they are going to earn more money, come back, etc. This vague feeling means that five years down the line, those same bright graduates feel trapped in jobs that they have no business doing. For example, you find that extremely bright individuals go to fields like IT because of the glamour of fields like this. Five years later they are only doing “coding”.
In case they had gone to some other field they could have been making genuine contribution.
There is a difference between “working” and “contribution”. Most people end up “working” not “contributing”.
- Solution Philosophy by V. Srinivas
Contribution Thinking as a mode of thought which enables fulfillment has been developed by Mr. V. Srinivas.This is the underlying philosophy of the i-become initiative.
He is the CEO & Lead Researcher of Illumine Lab, and the Founder-Chairman, Initiative Lead of the i-become initiative. (Visit Srinivas's Online Archive)
Categories
- – How can careers be reframed?
- – What are the building block ideas of i-become?
- – Who is a contributor?
- – Why do organizations need contributors?
- – Why do we need "practitioners"?
- Contributive Careers: the building blocks
- How can organizations relook at careers?
- How to become a Contributor?
- How to make the right career choice?
- The Need for Contributors
- What is evolution in the context of career journeys?
- What is the value of 'becoming'?
- Who is a Contributor?
- Why is visibility required?