What next - After 12th

12th exams are over and the results are out.

What to do next? What to study? How to plan your career? So many questions in most of our minds. To add to that confusion there comes loads of suggestions from our parents, relatives, friends.

What are the factors to consider before selecting a course and how to decide on our career path and the course to study?

The courses/degrees can be categorised into
Engineering
Medical
Arts
Science
Skills oriented
Technical

In Engineering we have Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Architecture, Information technology, Instrumentation. Production, Automobile, Aivation, Chemical, Bio-informatics, Bio-medical engineering and many more and list is keeping on growing with advancement in technology.

Medical apart from M.B.B.S there is B.D.S, B.V.Sc and then nopw B.H.M.S and other traditional medicine degrees are being selected by the students. Paramedical courses like Nursing, Physiotherapy, Pharma are having its own market and career in the industry.

With the recession hitting the Engineering sector Arts and science degrees are being sought after again. People aiming for M.B.A or M.C.A or Govt. jobs or Civil services are now smart enough to get into basic arts and science degrees. With teaching becoming a much sought after career and is a more secured career arts and science degrees are starting to find some space among the students.

More courses like Catering technology, Fashion designing, Fine arts, Pilot Training, Air Hostess courses are being sought after more nowadays inspite of the cost involved in these courses.

Said about the courses, how to select the courses which suits you.

Follow the below given steps to decide on your career
1. Decide the course based on your basic skills.
2. Decide the course based on your liking. The liking should be yours and shouldnt be driven because of popularity or easy jobs or more salary or friends like and so me too.
3. Take the advice of your parents/elders/seniors, but the decision should be yours.
4. Dont go by emotions, analyse your skills, current trends, family situation and then decide on the course.
5. Your degree should pave the way for your career and so decide in such a way.
6. Think whether you family will be able to support you through the course even if a master degree is required in that career.

If possible and on availability its worth spending some money to take up a psychometric test to know you skills and capabilities.

You are starting it now. Have a vision and mindset to learn new things not just for your exams but for your knowledge and thus for your career.

Reforms in Indian Politics

Politics has become so much commercialised and is being considered one of the profitable careers in India. Is politics not a social service career? And commercials to that were later added to encourage people to come in and serve the people and just to give a recognition to their work.

But today it has become like for the kind of whooping power the positions in politics give people have started to think and treat this as a professional career.

Corrupted to the core. No sight of reprieve. What can be done and how to revive the glory of politics and get leaders who can work for us for the people of India and for the pride of serving others and not for the power and the money attached to it.

Why not the Indian politicians and the system think and come out with some effective plans to reform the political system and thus provide us with some real leaders to transform India into a super power.

Some ideas that came to my mind

1. A minimum qualification for Local Body Representatives, MLA, MP
2. Retirement age for the elders thus preventing them from contesting the elections after certain age. They can be very well in the advisory boards.
3. No first timers in State or Central politics. They should have atleast contested in any of the local body elections before contesting for MLA/MP.
4. No first time Ministers. They should have atleasted contested the previous election for MLA/MP.
5. Keep track of their property and their family's property.
6. Property and wealth details should be declared openly and should be tracked henceforth every year. Like any corporates yearly audit statement every MLAs/MPs audit statements should be publicised in media every year.
7. This audit report should have a clear mention of the performance report based on the commitments they gave during elections.
8. Citizens should have facility to call back their MLA/MP if the given promises are not met.
9. MP/MLA should conduct a public meeting(not propaganda meeting) but an interaction session to answer the queries of citizens of his/her constituency every month. He/She should have visited atleast 10 times to every panchayat in his constituency during his tenure as MLA/MP
10. Following these audit reports there should be a minimum points and based on it it should be decided that whether he/she can contest in the next elections. If not eligible to contest the following election then should not be able to contest the following 10 years or so.
11. Every MLA/MP should be provided with a toll free number and it should be answered either by him personal or his official personal secretary.
12. Every MLA/MP should have a website where anyone should be able to post their queries or grievance and he.she personally should be answering those within specific time say one week or so to those and report back on actions taken on that query.
13. Election commission should take care of Election expense of all the candidates for which the candidates pay the Election commission. If bribing for votes is proved immediate disqualification of the candidate should be the only and final punishment and should be terminated from politics at any stage.

More such ideas comes to a layman like me. But what are the intellectuals sitting up there doing. Are they scared of implementing these kind of reforms for their selfishness. Do we need to fight once again for another independance.

Get back to the basics - Agricultural development

We have to get back to our basics.

We are an Agriculture country. But we are not promoting it and not supporting much of research and development in agriculture. We must make co-operative system an effective one in agriculture. Like a village should form its own co-operative system to grow crops and sell it directly to the customers through its own system, so that the whole of the profit grows to the producers. Govt should come out with such a model, encourage this and support this system. Agriculture scientists and professionals should be directly involved in this. If this can be done and if we an have surplus agriculture products for export automatically we will grow. Other industries around this will grow.

When agriculture flourishes, price of essential commodities like food come down drastically. Other industries like transport, automobile, mechanical industries, road construction, (as usual) Computers, banks flourish around this. And thus an overall development will be achieved.

Instead we are trying to go in the reverse and trying to supplement the agriculture industry with others and are destroying that industry by taking away cultivable lands in the name of industrialisation.

Congress Back to Power with clear majority

I didnt expect it to be this way.

Yes, Congress was the only party in sight of victory but not with such a clear majority.

Now they can move ahead with all their crazy plans without anyone to have any kind of checking on them. No Communist to press for a Common Minimum programme. I would have favoured a situation they be in a situation to convince many for some decision and that would have stopped them from making certain crazy decision.

Sonia and Manmohan Singh should really think about the people atleast now. Without doing polarisation of people as minorities and majorities based on religion they should be reallu secular in their approach. Liberal economic policy or Globalisation doesnt mean that they have to forgo the interest of local people and business.

Let us wait and watch what they are going to do.

Religion and God

God

God is someone to whom we go when all our ways or solutions to a problem gets dried up and literally we dont know what to do and how to do. God used to be the strong persons in in specific area thats is what we call "Kula Theivam" "Ooru Theivam" Heroics of them spreads and they became established in a larger geographical area. Thats how we initially had mariatha, muneeswaran as our god. Then came Shiva, muruga. pillayar, perumal. ramar, krishnan, Aiyyappan and all. Originated in a specific location and then over centuries spread to wider geographic area. Same was Buddha, Jain and GuruNanak spread as the latest in India. We started to believe in all Gods like mariatha, murugan, shiva, perumal, budha, guru nanak equally. Then came Allah from out of the sub continent. Initially it was forced into Indians and then started to spread. Then came Jesus and his heroics then became to spread. Instead of making us to accept him people who follow jesus are trying to force him us.

Religion

Its nothing but collection of habits and customs being followed by people in a specific area. These culture best suits only to that area based on climate and geographical proximity. Due to spread of people and resettlement of people in different areas these cultures called religion was carried along with them and was being spread to other places.

Then as usual ego clash on who is bigger and who is right brought the clashes among the religions and in the name of God. This is my prediction about God and Religion. Still Iam a believer of God some super natural power controlling the worlds activities.