POV: GATE Vs Placements 🤔🤔🫡🫡🫡
A discussion about career decision-making between GATE preparation and campus placements, emphasizing the importance of sticking to one's chosen path without getting distracted by immediate opportunities.
Summary
The conversation centers around a common dilemma faced by engineering students - whether to pursue GATE preparation for higher education or focus on campus placements for immediate job opportunities. The speaker Manas advocates for clarity in decision-making, emphasizing that once a student commits to a particular path, they should stick to it regardless of distractions. The discussion highlights how students often get swayed by immediate opportunities like job packages (5-6 lakh salary offers) while preparing for GATE, leading to confusion and depression. The speakers stress that having a clear thought process is crucial for success, and students should not let other opportunities distract them from their chosen goal. The conversation appears to be based on real experiences, with one speaker mentioning receiving thousands of emails from students facing this exact dilemma, where they feel depressed seeing their friends getting placed while they continue studying for GATE.
Key Insights
- Once you have clarity about your path, you should stick to it and not get distracted by other opportunities that come along the way
- Students preparing for GATE often face depression when they see friends getting job packages of 5-6 lakhs while they continue studying
- Thousands of emails are received from students expressing confusion about whether to continue GATE preparation or pursue immediate placement opportunities
- Having a clear thought process is essential - if your thinking is not clear, you won't be able to achieve anything
- Students should not let attractive job packages distract them if they have already decided to pursue GATE
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Transcript
[0:00] कि यार कोडिंग कर लेनी चाहिए, प्लेसमेंट लेनी चाहिए। अब मेरे अकॉर्डिंग मतलब ऐसा नहीं हो सकता कि मतलब मेरे को ही फॉलो करना है। लेकिन मेरे अकॉर्डिंग ऐसा है कि एक बार क्लेरिटी रखो बस फिर उसी को फॉलो करते रहो। वही दिखना चाहिए तुम्हें बस। फिर इधर-उधर जितने भी आते रहे अपॉर्चुनिटीज यार ये पैकेज भी मिल रहा है, वो पैकेज भी मिल रहा है। फिर वो उसको नहीं लेना है। अगर तुमने एक बार सेट कर लिया कि हां यार मेरे को यहीं जाना है। तो फिर तुम्हें और कुछ पाथ में वो डिस्ट्रैक्ट करने वाला नहीं होना चाहिए। बिल्कुल बिल्कुल। बहुत अच्छी बात मानस कह रहे हैं। बहुत ब्यूटीफुल बात इन्होंने कही [0:31] है। बहुत…
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