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Clipped to the Drawing Board by David Singh

“I wish I could retrace my steps!” sighs Sanjay, working with an IT firm. “The nature of my job is so mundane, totally shorn of any intellectual deciphering. Succinctly speaking, it’s just ‘cut and paste’ work, which even a tenth pass can pull off. Besides, there’s the threat of getting ousted from here, when you don’t deliver the goods, not to forget the profession’s concomitant woes of knee pain, backache, eyestrain, et al. I wish I had taken up Mechanical Engineering, for which I had a penchant”, bewails Sanjay.

It’s not uncommon to behold many students choosing an academic course, especially at a crucial phase, much against their wishes. By the time they discern that the move made was downright wrong, the debacle would have turned irrevocable.
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