The Future of Youth Today

[anamika]

The generation of today is very choosy and particular, as far as their education and career is concerned. The trend today is to collect as many degrees as possible in a pursuit of a high paying job. But the reality is far from what they desire.

With the present economy melt down and retrenchment in every sector, it is getting more and more difficult for the graduates to find a decent job. When one takes higher education, especially MBA or IIT grads or medicine or IT, the expectation of finding a good job with a hefty pay pack is natural. The only reason behind this mentality is that the children (or rather, their parents) spend a fortune…..literally….to get admissions in these high end institutes and courses with a view of securing a better future. The parents have to take loans to fund their children’s higher education, as the fees to these aforesaid courses are very steep and beyond common man’s reach. Very few affluent parents can give their children such high tech education very easily through their funds. But for most salaried people, the dream of giving higher education to their kids for the betterment of their future is a tight rope walk.

As the youth finally steps out with the coveted degree in his hand, the first thing that bears him down is the thought of the mortgages and loans that the family has to take care of. He feels responsible and mature to lend a helping hand to his family in their hour of need. For this he needs to secure a job that will ease off the parents’ woes and take care of the installments.
But due to the present day economic crisis all over the world, it is getting very difficult to find decent jobs. Let alone ‘decent’…….it is tough getting ANY job. The children, who are sent abroad for education, cannot hang out there as the new policies demand that the locals are given jobs to create stability in that particular country, rather than hiring an outsider. In our country too the picture is very grim, as the employers are shying away from hiring new recruits. The old employees, who all this while thought that they had a secure future, are having sweaty palms because they are unsure as to when the pink slip will be handed over to them.

It is a very sad picture and a very frightful too. The MBAs and IT professionals running from pillar to post to find a vacant chair in an office that can accommodate them. Many a times we come across MBAs in marketing, knocking on every door to sell a product, where in fact their dream job would have been one in a good company with a decent perk in an air-conditioned office!!!
So where does our youth go from here on? The present situation is all that takes one to get frustrated and many a times turn to immoral means to make some quick buck.

So it is a sincere request to our greedy, corrupt politicians to think about the young generation…….the future of India, and create some job opportunities for them so that they don’t suffer in frustration. It is high time that they stop filling their own coffers and leave some for the deserving candidates by giving them jobs because they are the ones who can build a better tomorrow and a healthy nation.