Good post mate. My childhood dreams always changed from year to year - not because I was following the crowd, but because I kept trying out and getting obsessed with different fantasies (I moved on to toy cars from toy planes because of this, F1 cars in the middle, moved on to strategy games later). I guess as your grow older your ideas evolve (as I don't really want to be a pilot anymore. They work crappy hours and don't get paid enough and it takes a while to work your way up the ladder - I didn't give up on my childhood dreams, I just learn't that I don't really want that - hey, how would I know all that stuff when I was a kid) and as of this moment I am pursuing my 'current' dreams.
pavan
· 1 year ago
Well Azharc said it all right... besides my take on this is .. How many people know what exactly they want to do in their life, something like - Yes! this is the thing, this is what i want to be,This is what i want to do in my life in future. Ask your self, If one word doesn’t come up straight away( you will not have to think for this), then you perhaps are doing the right thing now(whatever u are doing).Stop complaining, if you are. If you come up with a profession spontaneously, even then, it should not change every 2 years as you grow up. What i believe in is that if anyone wants to seriously be something then no matter what they will find a way to.Its just how badly u want it. I picked these lines from my blog entry. Besides - we grow and so our likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams too.
azharcs
· 1 year ago
@pavan I am sure, it was nobody's dream to sit in a cubicle all day and type crappy code. Now you will say, we all have to make a living and we have to do crap work. People need purpose in life, It defines their whole life. Ask an artist what he loves, and he would say Art. Ask a entrepreneur what he likes and he says product. Majority of the people who don't follow their dreams are the people who complain about their jobs, their boss, their pay and all that crap. If they had followed their dream, they would have nothing to complain about. The reason they complain so much is because they didn't make the important decisions in their life(somehow parents, peers and practicality took over) and now they complain to tell that those decisions were wrong.
chaos
· 1 year ago
its pure narrow mindedness.. I mean why on earth do u think that being a software engineer can be no ones dream.Its just that u were born in bangalore, and have all friends who are software engineers... and here its like a prototype, any middle class guy opts to be a se because he can find an easy job. Now can u just get out of a box and think, if you were not in bangalore, say u were in dubai or some country, where the most common profession is not SE, you would perhaps say, being a SE is achieving a dream.
Besides if someone sits in a garage and codes then its a dream and if someone sits in a cubicle and does the same its "sit in a cubicle all day and type crappy code".. cmon...
This has happend to me.... I like to code, and any bit of work is interestng when u dont know how to solve a problem and u have to find a solution. When i get into my work, i get so engrossed that i forget my out look, i dont check mail, i forget my communicator and everything.... its just my work and me.... This is liking what u do But when u sit down to study or code and then you find an interesting link and share it with ur friends, in bet or you find time to twitter "I am reading how to code ruby" or something like that... thats wen you are not totally interested in what u do and u are forcing it on yourself... may be its not a dream, its a fantasy because u see many people do that and become successful and you want to be them. The destination is not a dream, the road to the destinatino is....
azharcs
· 1 year ago
@azharc - What you are saying is kinda true. We evolve as humans and our dreams too. Just look around, how many people are software engineers because of choice rather than peer pressure or parental pressure. Dreams should not be associated with practical concerns. Pilot's might make money or not, but the very reason we all wanted to become pilot was flying fascinated us and we loved it. When we were kids, we didn't care about how much money pilots made. Just watching a plane made us happy. I wanted to be a soccer player when i was a kid, as i grew up it only got tougher and like a sheep i quit it and had a very good reason, soccer players make less money in India, one injury might finish the career and all that. Those were just reasons for me so that i could quit something and find a easier dream.
Azhar Chougle
· 1 year ago
Ditto man - good point, I don't want to become a pilot, but I still love playing Flight Simulator.
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How many people know what exactly they want to do in their life, something like - Yes! this is the thing, this is what i want to be,This is what i want to do in my life in future. Ask your self, If one word doesn’t come up straight away( you will not have to think for this), then you perhaps are doing the right thing now(whatever u are doing).Stop complaining, if you are.
If you come up with a profession spontaneously, even then, it should not change every 2 years as you grow up. What i believe in is that if anyone wants to seriously be something then no matter what they will find a way to.Its just how badly u want it.
I picked these lines from my blog entry.
Besides - we grow and so our likes, dislikes, hobbies and dreams too.
Now can u just get out of a box and think, if you were not in bangalore, say u were in dubai or some country, where the most common profession is not SE, you would perhaps say, being a SE is achieving a dream.
Besides if someone sits in a garage and codes then its a dream and if someone sits in a cubicle and does the same its "sit in a cubicle all day and type crappy code".. cmon...
This has happend to me.... I like to code, and any bit of work is interestng when u dont know how to solve a problem and u have to find a solution.
When i get into my work, i get so engrossed that i forget my out look, i dont check mail, i forget my communicator and everything.... its just my work and me.... This is liking what u do
But when u sit down to study or code and then you find an interesting link and share it with ur friends, in bet or you find time to twitter "I am reading how to code ruby" or something like that... thats wen you are not totally interested in what u do and u are forcing it on yourself...
may be its not a dream, its a fantasy because u see many people do that and become successful and you want to be them.
The destination is not a dream, the road to the destinatino is....