Today i met rajesh jain and abhisehk dwivedi. It has been long that i have met both of them together. They are trying to pursue their destinies, abhishek is more focussed, our don is not but he knows what not to do. So in that sense i have high regard for these individuals. And whenever we losers meet, we discuss like critics, the shortcomings of others. Rajesh being the smarter of the lot, lets us blabber and just keeps laughing. I always know there is more to his intellect than i can fathom, he is one of the most worldly wise person i have met.
But , dwivedi and me , cynical towards the ways of the world, have adopted a way of finding faults with the career choices of todays' youngsters. Kindly read abhishek's blog for a greater analysis, http://abhishekdwivedi.blogspot.com.
I just want to be terse here as i am being engulfed by the sleep goddess, cliche is what i see everywhere, in youngsters wearing Nirvana's t-shirt just to fake being one with Kurt Cobain, growing there hairs long, wearing clip-ons etc. ( this all i did too). But when it comes to making choices in life, no body wants to be different. Everybody wants to hop onto the same bandwagon of consulting/MBA/finance jobs which is being fuelled by the aspirations of middle class. The problem with middle class is that it is extremely ambitious, but it extremely cautious. It wants to become super rich but are afraid to fail, to end up in dumps.
To give an analogy, we middle class are at a plateau or a hillock, we see some magnificent mountain (riches) in front of us but we also have deep valley before that mountain (poverty and struggle). Everyone desires to reach the mountain but afraid to tread the valley. So vainly we try to build a bridge from the hillock to the mountain without going through the valley. End result, many of us fail, we end up jus raising the height of the hillock a bit, but still a far cry from the colossus the mountain is.
Where in lies the solution, cries the middle class. To our dismay, it is in the valley where in lies the path to the mountain top. Literally and in an astute business sense also. In india, we have 70% population in villages, 30% peope are living in abject poverty. The next big economic revolution will come in the villages ( in the valley, the new mountain will rise). The irony is, the middle class is to busy trying to become rich the conventional way, the cliched way, and the superrich want to creat one more mountain by tapping the poor. Here is classic dichotomy of our times, which as an entrepreneur, i understand and appreciate and want to exploit. When everyone is running towards a software/IT startup, we are trying to build a barber shop/ a kirana store or maybe to be precise a highly boring eco-friendly inks business.
But again i am back at blowing my own trumpet, i am not successful, nor even a working business, but still being so arrogant to write this in a public forum.
SUCH CONVENTIONAL WAY TO GET RID OF THE CONVENTIONAL!!
