A very common question that we get by with every now and then is 'Where do you see yourself in the next five/two years?' And despite answering the same with a very confident voice are we really that sure about it? I think not.
Picturing yourself in a career is the easiest of things to do. And commonly our choice is dependant on the silliest reason ever to choose or not to choose a particular line of service. And often that takes us to the path where we half-heartedly attend to the professional attire. After a few years, it's all in the habit with no sign of creativity and motivation.
Being an engineer is not waking up on a bed of books and calculating the life out of me. It's not spending long hours in the lab with five mugs of coffee or being completely nerd. It's not even the other end of extreme where you sit in a glass room and sign papers here and there. Being an engineer is being innovative and realistic. It's finding out solutions to problems that arise every day. It's improving the quality of life. It's about management. It's about dealing with the stuff that is still left to be understood. The process is particularly a trial and error method. One tries, makes a mistake, fails, improvises and tries again. Hence the cycle continues. Many times it happens that we cannot draw a similar pattern of conclusion for the two same problems that are introduced in two different areas. That's the part where the role of an engineer is required. We answer the questions of past with refinement, we entertain the queries of the present with assurance and we forecast the variation of future with accountability. Being an engineer is about taking the responsibility of producing something explicit and advancing further.
So let's not talk about the next two years. Let's talk about today. Let's focus on what lies in front of us right now. Being someone who is authoritative of causing even the most minor change is not all magical and not all fearful. It's somewhere in between the line of 'I can't do it' and 'I have done it.' It's the part where you say 'I can try it.'
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