9 Reasons Why You Should Not Do Engineering

One of the burning career choice for students across the world is Engineering. World Economic Forum suggests that Russia leads the world in churning out the most engineering graduates every year, followed by India, US, China, Iran, Japan and so on.India alone produces 1.5 million engineers from its more than 10,000 colleges every year.

So, before you follow this mass, here are the top 9 reasons you must consider:

1 - Joblessness

Data suggests that one-third of the Engineers produced across the world are not at all employable. These are the ones who don’t get a job at all through their degrees. Talking about the other 1/3rd, they start at a tragically lowest of salaries, not at all matching with the rising cost of living across the globe.

So, the big dreams of supercars and penthouse with which you begin the course are wrapped up with the wish of a nominal salary at the end of four years in most cases.

2 – Underemployment

A fat chunk of this mass of the so-called lucky ones gets a job they are overqualified for. They don’t get a job suitable for them, instead, they end up working as a sales executive, where there is no relation between what they have studied, and what they do. This has forced the apprentices to opt for management degrees to make up for the pace and progress. Thus getting a management degree or even entering the banking sector after engineering is the new trend.

3 – Outdated Syllabus

The course content of engineering across most of the institutes have not at all modernized. It is still obsolete compared to what the market needs and what the institutes equip their students with. Regardless of the science and technology mutating across the globe, new age engineers are still trained to look at a problem in the same old way their ancestors did. This makes them less desirable for the workforce that a company is looking for.

4 – The Attendance Drill

The complications an engineer faces practically, in the real world are poles apart compared to the ones they read in their books. If you classify engineering colleges into tiers of Premier and non-premier institute, then you may still encounter students with an insufficient understanding of basic concepts in the non-premier ones. From the beginning get ready to shield yourself from the constant bombardment of sessional, presentations, assignments, projects, labs. It happens due to lack of hands-on experiences with the real world in most institutes and the rule of a minimum attendance percentage in the colleges. This kills the time for involvement in the extracurricular activity, which deprives them of their opportunity to get a good exposure to the industry and also the chances to improve their soft skills.

5 – The system of teaching

With this heavy number of colleges granting degrees, there remains the obvious shortage of quality teachers. The teaching staff are, most of the time, not the ones driven by the passion for teaching. They choose teaching just to earn a living, not to create brilliant students. Thus this sparks the entire cycle of viewing a concept through the level of understanding of the professor lone, leading towards the CGPA culture and forcing students study merely for exams not learning. This doesn’t supply the real problem solvers that the businesses need.

6 – Absence of innovation

With the sole focus only towards semester exams, the importance of innovation is left way back. So, the high hopes with which you chose this course to make the iron man suit, to make the Batmobile, to create the next version of Facebook, my friend, it’s all a dream that will shatter when you will simply crave to just cross the passing GP in each semester. After school; in most other non-premier institutes this will simply be the next phase of rote learning and no rights to question.

7 – Brand of College

If you don’t get into the top or best college of the country, then you better be ready for the habit of not getting shortlisted for most of the interviews because your institute is relatively unknown. Companies tend to seek students only from top premier institutes, this cuts down a large lump of admirably talented students. There are even cases of engineering colleges being set up as a business, their mission is to earn a big fortune, not light or spread technical education or empower the nation.

8 – Extinction of Mass Recruitments

Those days are gone when all engineering branches used to get solace in the IT sectors because of their mass recruitment drives. Statistics proposes that this tradition is wiping out from the face of businesses. The industries have lately reached their saturation point. So their present priority is mostly to recruit just the creamy layer of the masses. Their expectation from the students has hyped, which brought about greater competition in the sphere.

9 – Rising demand for Technicians

Companies in the current business environment are employing more of diploma holder technicians compared to engineers. This, not only saves them a lot of money but also helps them get more work done in the least payment. Data even suggests that these technicians due to their practical familiarity are found more skilled than the engineers from the same field. Thus increasing their profits.


Engineers and doctors, being considered to be the superior intellectual class of people in the society, the thinking, that only those people earn well and get a settled life, is a mentality of past today. That was a different time when just a limited number of students could opt for engineering, as there were fewer colleges. And at that time, if you have even somehow passed engineering, there was a high prospect of getting a respectable job. Engineering, as everyone thinks, is not a source of very high-income today. Everything looks good from outside, but it is actually the interest which generates the required skills and skills which generate money.

Today, anybody can opt for engineering, even a 12th cleared student with a backlog in Maths can become an engineer. Therefore the ratio of the no of jobs to the no of engineers has seriously declined and is at an alarming stage. So, the prime factor is passion and interest. This is a field you must not take for the sake of a status or rank. There are even instances of people having, the realization that they were not made for it after giving a long time into it, but they cannot make any changes now, as the dice have been rolled. Today, Lakhs of students undergo depression because they don't find delight in what they are studying.

It is essential to understand the anatomy of engineering, one needs to sink himself and literally feel the world of engineering, its need, and purpose in his/ her life, before making any big move.

Engineering is not a forbidden discipline, if you want to follow your dreams, go ahead, rather than killing your happiness, by pursuing a discipline of not your interest, just for the tag of being cool or the boasting that “I am an Engineer”.

The society will always give a pressure to pursue it. But the society is not going to come forward and help you in times you feel depressed

Follow what you intend, what you dream to do. It’s true that going out of the way is a bit difficult because one needs to work harder than the people following the conventional ways. One needs to be strong as the other path will be tougher. If you want to pursue engineering, and you know nothing else, then go for it. Just give your best.You will eventually realize our vision in the tenure of four years or else you fall in love with the machines.

Don't commit if you don't want to go for it and if you commit than give your best. Peace! :)