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As I recommend Upon asking for career advice , I often hear people- parents and well wishers say " Go by u r interest , u will succeed". That is cliche and is too dangerous to heed. Interest after all is personal and has no social meaning. If interest were to make someone successful, then every kid going to cricket summer camp will end up in Indian national team or every student in a dancing school would become a dancing exponent. A successful career needs at least three components: Interest, skill and value system. Interest of course is needed but sufficient. The best that interest can give u is "satisfaction". But skill is what gives social meaning, contribution and of course economic value to an individual. Skill also gives u the edge in time of competition. Finally value system that which makes the individual to enjoy if not tolerate the mundane part of the work. Unless NR Murthy had fully accepted the value of his work in building Infosys, he would not have

Ever since IT industry came into lime light in 1990’s and become a desired career destination for technical graduates, they followed a very simple and straight forward career plan: complete degree, get campus recruited, join company and have a “settled” career path with occasional vertical and horizontal moves (promotions, marriages, specialization etc). Fortunately for over a decade or so it has worked very well. Many of my own students have been still serving the company they joined after graduation for nearly twenty years. Life is a basket of surprises and it pops them very unexpectedly. Like the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that forced European traders to discover alternatives to land routes which they have been used for centuries , the current recession or economic slowdown (circa 2008) has derailed many a career and forcing people to find new career paths. One of the paths that seems to be catching attention is that of pursuing higher education. For instance, the Internati