Following post was written by Ashish Arora- Graduate Student in Australia.
Higher Education Abroad Makes You Unique – Not a Clown
First of all Rashmi, great job! There are very few people in the arena who think that it is worthy sharing experiences with people around, I think your post has true reflection of life in US.
However, if this is demotivating people here, let me give us some insights through my experiences.
Post by Rashmi – 20 Fascinating Differences Between Lifestyle in India and USA.
I have an IT career of around 8 years in India and Australia at some of the very best organizations in both countries.
I am not married so don’t have richer experience to that level.
However, for all those who have big dreams and ambitions, please remember that “Dreams and Ambitions keep evolving and so does the focus of a human being”. This depends on how your life takes you as you go further.
Today you have a dream of studying abroad, tomorrow it will be a good job and day after tomorrow it will be a super-rich idea of being entrepreneur.
However, these dreams or goals are inter-related.
If you don’t take your actions seriously, these dreams will still evolve but you would be chasing only one dream or change over to something else.
Studying Abroad is hundred folds better than studying in India because of following reasons.
Perspective and Culture
It gives a different perspective to people, societies, countries and an opportunity to meet different people and share experience.
Today not only I know about Australia, I know about China, Vietnam, Korea, America and Mexico through different friends and roommates.
Value of Education
Education in US/Canada/Australia/UK is valued worldwide, so your chances of getting job globally will be more. Once you settle down in a country, world does not stops neither India. You have better chances of coming back with far more saving than you would have in India.
I have come across so many people who studied and worked in US and then they came back to India and grabbed super good positions (Vice President, Senior Manager, CFO).
Let me tell you incident in one of the companies I worked, one fine day I get a mail in my inbox about new manager and I asked my colleague, “hey! who is this new manager?” Colleague -”fucking some UC grad who has done MS and MBA in US and worked for few years in US, now fucker will write emails and chill his ass down the comfy chair while we work whole day and night and he will earn dollar kind of salary in Indian Rupees” – Truth be Told
Money and Salary
One of my friends came back to India after working in UK for around 5 to 6 years. He was having a good life there and married his girlfriend after having ups and downs in family but now they have started their own business in Mumbai. They managed to earn good money and saved for business.
You have always option to buy a house in India while you are in US and put that on Rent. Lots of people do that.
Benefit – Your mom and dad get stable income out of it for their old days. I don’t say buy a house on full down payment.
Buy it on loan and then try to pay it, I reckon it won’t be that hard to pay monthly installment when you are earning in dollars keeping in mind all your expenses.
Skills Development
Come here and live independently, it is harder than living independently in India.
Here a student gets only few hours to work part time so you have to work those hours to earn and above to that study hard to get good grades, still this is not ended.
You have to do all household chorus yourself because you cannot hire a maid to do stuff like in India where even student do hire maids and stuff, forget about families.
Remember this make you more independent, organized and develop time management skills.
Job Search Advantage
How many people know about graduate jobs and internships?
I don’t know what they call it in US but here a student gets a super knowledge through graduate jobs and internship. Keep in mind that you will end up working for years in an organization and never gain that kind of knowledge what you get in graduate programs and internship sometimes.
This internships and graduate jobs are not easy to get if you are an experienced professionals and only students gets opportunity to grab these grad jobs.
Most important thing needs to be mentioned here from my past experience is that not all job fetches you right kinds of knowledge and constantly evolving learning curve.
Like a tester keeps testing same test cases every day and a developer sometimes is either on bench or keeps supporting software rather than developing a new code or working on a new project.
What IT companies in India are doing is simply collecting people and putting them on bench to show high statistics to clients of their manpower which increase their credibility to grab projects globally but situation is not like that here. You learn heaps and you get better opportunity. You don’t check emails and go home.
Life Experience
All those people who commented part time jobs as shit jobs are ignorant, uneducated or belong to a village because they have not experience such things.
I proudly declare that I have worked in restaurants, bars, McDonald, taxi stands, being a radio jockey and a sales representative.
Does it change anything in me?
Well to be honest it changes my overall personality and compelled me to think why western culture is more progressive than any other culture.
I learned workplace ethics, communication skills, professionalism, small things like gratitude, honesty, ownership, time management skills, customer relationship, readiness and activeness both physically and mentally and finally respect and love for people of all caste and creed.
Living and Racism
All those people above have discussed about racism, let me tell you a bad truth here, “Racism is everywhere” it is in India, US, Australia, Canada, XYZ country but it lies in the minds of few ignorant people who malign the entire society.
Don’t you come across with some “son of soils” in Mumbai who thinks they took your job but never thought that a person called Dhirubai Ambani gave jobs to thousands of them and never thought that person like Raj Kapoor or some chopra give a new definition to film industry.
Have you never been come across people in Karnataka thinking that people from other parts are grabbing their jobs and polluting the city. Think over this and other issues in India before concluding anything about any country.
BTW, every person knows about Mahatma Gandhi here, His thought and teaching are part of their course curricular(I am talking about top university in Oz, NewZealand etc). Nobody knows “Raj Thakre”.
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Above points provides an amazing perspective about Higher Education abroad. Ashish have written 2 more articles that are in draft. I have asked him to write about Australia.
I spoke about 40 Complex Things Your Mon Never Told About USA.
Some comments said I’m exaggerating the contents. But, just like Ashish, I have faced and lived the reality in USA.
I’m much more equipped to face real life challenges today with experience of attending school as a being independent student in USA.
Skills you pick-up while studying abroad will make you unique and prepare to face tougher challenges.
I couldn’t have developed this blog and built millions of visitors, if I were to be in India. Exposure I got from studying and living in USA translates to contents in this blog.
I have written similar experience in this post – Why International Students in USA are Unique.
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I hope this article will change your mind and give new perspective about studying abroad.
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What do you think about this article? Wold you now consider studying abroad?
Studying abroad is a good idea .But dont thionk abt coming to bak to India and working in India with foreign degree.U study there n settle there.I see lot of foreign products wandering in India jobless with some degrees with strange names .I hav plenty in my family
Hi,
I’m planning to undertake my ug courses in aerospace engineering from the university of Singapore. Do I have scope in India for my carrer after my course completion. If no please guide me for taking up my ug course in any other field .
Hi Dhruv,
Well frankly speaking opportunities for aerospace engineers are less compared to students with CS/IT, ECE or Mech Engg. background. But if your passion lies in this, do go for it. Singapore is a good option for aerospace engineering programmes as you may find good opportunities after completing your coursework.
All the best!
Hi,
I am actually planning to h1b in this year,i got 55% in graduation,61% in 10+2 and i went to study masters in Uk and returned not completing it with some personal problem,now my employeer says he will be applying for my H1b i have 2+ years of work experience in an MNC
Please let me know
Santosh Pisipati
Santosh – So what’s the problem. This is perhaps good that your employer is filing H1B visa for you. There is nothing better than an onsite opportunity. Go like a tourist, earn money, have fun and then come back with money multiplied by 50 bud
Sir my name is ismail iam studying btech in civil depatment now iam in final year as iam confuse to select a masters or mtech as my family can offord me and i wnt to study in california from fresno university my frnd who is american told me about this university so i want to ask u that can i do a part time job and earn some dollars plzzzz help me out
Syed – You can surely earn money through part time jobs but don’t expect to earn money equivalent to your course fees. It is not possible. You can earn enough to take care of your daily expenses and that’s it. You need to have some source of money for your fees and living expenses before planning for studies. May it be loan or savings etc.
One thing to keep in mind is the degree of competition. The relative competition is very high in India compared to other colleges.
hiiiii,,,, m Aman Dhand. M jst passd my BCA(bechlr of computer education) wid everage marks of above 55%. Nw i want to study in canada n wanna settle down dere. So pls tell me M I ABLE TO GOT ADDMISSION IN GUD UNIVERSITY OR COLLAGE IN MS OR ANY OTHR COURSE help by sharing ur experiance with me. so tell me Wht r the options for me to settle down dere…pls do rplt…. Regards
You have good chances. Please do your research on universities in Canada that offer courses in IT and computer science and start applying!
Hii… I want to do MSc in telecommunication… I m thinking to do it in Irland… Is it good country to do master’s ??? And what about germany ???
Well my research and experience says, European countries are certainly a better choice for technical areas like telecommunication. Ireland does not have much scope in terms of jobs. Germany still seems to be a better option but why not US?
Hi Raghuram Sukumar currently i am doing my MS in computer science from one of the Korean research institute which is also not too much famous. Now a days i am so confused whether i should move to the Europe for MS like Germany. What is your advice if i have completed two semester and now i try to move into the Europe. I also have a four years work experience in IT field as the software engineer. I will be very thankful for your kind advise.
hey.. please suggest me that should i do my graduation from India or abroad for better job opportunities…
Depends on whether you wish to secure a job in India or abroad. Ofcouse if you do graduation from a university abroad, your chances are better to secure a job abroad. This does not necessarily mean that you don’t have chances to secure job abroad if you do your graduation from India but certainly there will be more competition and it won’t be that easy.
i find it really amusing that after studying btech in ece for 4 years ,iam going to end up in some fucking MNC’S who’s only job is to do lip service to some american companis,THEN WHY THE HELL YOU STUDY ECE. “i am talking of the average indian student”.getting out of this trap is to go abroad and ur article reinforces my belief.
Dear friend,
This is true, the true application of the core domain knowledge has to be supported by the fundamental level RnD which doesn’t happen, or least doesn’t get well paid in india. Apart from this, every dollar conversion based job, not remind even clerical job like filling transcripts may earn more than what a core domain engineer can earn, will eventually prevail show casing even any idiot can do jobs along the side of intellectual in India.
The bitter truth is instead of india evolving as dominant intellectual generator, it became just supplier of Intellectual to the world. It will never stop, and we all have to feel the heat.
So, i completely agree with views of the writer, that it’s always better to study or work in Developed countries, as i can not see even in the distant future india will be called “A developed Country”.
Hi Jones,
There is no point in blaming organizations you work in, if you really have this question then you should spend time in figuring out what is the answer. Like in what direction you want to go after pursing your qualification in ECE. Do you really think that a career in VHDL can make a difference? Do you think you should be doing something related to semiconductors or nanotechnology or VLSI? If yes, then what did you do in that direction? Please find answers to following questions:
1. Am I doing the right job? If no, then what is the field of study my interest lies? Is it some specific area in electronics like semiconductors, VHDL, Verilog, VLSI, DSP, programming or do I want to do a M Tech in ECE or probably a PHD later?
2. Did I tried searching avenues how can I move into a particular direction, like if I wish to go for abroad studies, did I research for universities offering best courses in ECE in masters or PHD?
3. Did I tried for jobs in ECE in India itself? If not then why? If yes then what was the reason I was rejected for those jobs? lack of technical knowledge? personality, attitude, academics? what?
4. Did I tried searching for courses within India itself like CDAC offers some really good short term courses for ECE students so that they may align their career into domains they want to and it’s not that costly like spending a hugh amount of money. Please go to CDAC website and check for yourself. Did you even tried for GATE or M Tech i? NITs? If not, then why? If yes, then what was the reason for rejection?