Accidental vs Choosen One!

"NO ONE HAS GIVEN YOU AN OPPORTUNITY! HAS IT EVER OCCURRED TO YOU TO CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOURSELF!"

Most of the cases we end up in a particular profession accidentally unless we were blessed with a mentor in the form of parents, friend or teacher etc. who directed us to choose or they choose particular career path for us.Quite often or not, either lure of glamorous pay-cheques or our exposure to friends, family or relatives who work at multinational technology companies, drives us to software career and not by choice. We rarely researched with personal SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis to evaluate and choose right professional career for us.Whichever are the reasons for our career choices, but all of us agree that we pursue the reasonable success from our given potential.

Here I am attempting to share few lessons taken from my own life experiences on how to plan & grow career in software profession.

Last two decades there has been tremendous impact of information technology on our lives. Specially India being one of the major producer of highly qualified engineering graduates which earned India  the World leader title in global software outsourcing industry. The fundamental reason being global businesses found more cost effective resources and processes to deliver to their IT needs using highly educated & skilled but low cost engineers of third world countries like India and China.

Fundamental objective for any business is to deliver their products or services and manage reasonable margin that adds profitability of business and stakeholders interests and nothing else. Here we as aspiring software professional need to understand is this.

"TECHNOLOGY IS A JUST TOOL FOR BUSINESS AND NOT VICE-VERSE". 

For centuries human being involved in businesses without help of technology.Unless and until we understand that, whatever we deliver must adds value to business profitability, we won't  qualify for any professional career leave alone career in software industry. This discussion leads to question what level of comfort we enjoy with numbers.

"ONE THAT GET MEASURED IS WHAT GET PLANNED AND IS ULTIMATELY IT GET DONE!"

On the other hand if you were among those few blessed ones who had dream and passion to excel in software industry and you have been coding since early days, you stand chance to be successful only if you could deliver and sell well what you know or learnt understand market demand and supply. You can always choose, how you wish to do this, either by building career with established firms in that space or launching your own start-up venture by catering some niche or untapped market needs.

"WHAT helped you over the great obstacles of life!" was asked of a highly successful man. "The other obstacles," he replied.