I realized that I chose the wrong career path by choosing to be an engineer. What should I do?

You want to fulfill your parents' wishes. Then you want to earn nicely. Then you also want the career path you love. In future, you'll ask for your dream girl, your dream this, your dream that... If everything we wish is made easily avaliable, life will become meaningless! Sorry to burst your bubble but it's really impossible to have everything, mate. So choose wisely what you really want. It's never too late. You are in your twenties, where real life starts. Clean the slate and make it a good one!

This is typical story of an middle class kid because this kid is overloaded with expectations. In the young time of our parents being an engineer was a proud feeling but now a days time is changing so do the taste of life is. Now coming back to your core question, what should you do now. Hushhhh, that's too difficult to answer just by reading couple of sentences from you. Still, people can share their experience and you have to analyse their experience and think upon that. Firstly you should think and think hard that the stuff you love, is it actually a love and passion for that stuff or is it mere attraction. Most common case is most of us wants to be guitarist because we have seen people performing in fest and getting lot of attraction, so we want to get that attention. This thing makes a mindset that we want to be guitarist but do we actually want to be? You have to figure out this for you. If the field or stuff you are interested in is actually your passion then go for what you love and the you don't have to love what you will be doing. As you said, you area of interest doesn't promise a good job, even engineering doesn't. Tomorrow there will be a recession and these mnc will kick you out and you will be at home.  Bottom line: you need to analyse your passion, till the time you can't say that your area of interet is your passion, quitting engineering is like suicide. But if your area of interest is your passion just go for it.

Look friend India is a country were a person enter into Engineering and then decides what he/she really want to do. Better late then never. Its a big positive that now you know what you aren't into ,and what you really want. You'll find a lot of examples , students admitted in Engineering collages but aren't completely into it because there interest lies somewhere else .   The famous Farhan Qureshi from 3 idiots probably had the same story as you do.Had different interests , and he did chased his interest and was successful in the end. Its really the interest that matters . As you are in a deemed institute , which will definitely help you in enhancing your personality ,will help you pursue your interest(within the institute and beyond to professional level) As you are in BITS now , and with your case , do clear engineering(with a decent CG , most of the students not having an engineering interest manage to score a decent CGPA till the end with last few week study) prioritizing your interest . Institute will help you professionalizing it and will help you in an overall development .Helps you build your personality ,taking decisions that will help you in your non-engg. profession. GOOD LUCK

THE BEST ERA FOR HUMAN KIND IS NOW! I worked for almost all my life in several businesses and all gave me potential to change whatever I want. Should I regret those years? No. That engineer knowledge is not lost...but you can have another choices in life also. I no long work on traditional business..now I use to be online and promoting solutions for other people. So you can do the same if you wish. Lot's of people wants to buy your wisdom. You can affilate yourself with big companies and promote their stuff like I do.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts,  Roger http://leveraged-leadership.com/prosperity/?s1=rogermoore

Hi I'll answer this practically. So you belong to a middle class family. This means that time and money are of utmost importance to you. I am assuming, since you have already taken admission in BITS Pilani and have studied engineering and related subjects in school time, you don't have the required skill set to make a sudden change in your career path. Now, this is a cold hard truth that only some are blessed with interests that can make us a living. For the rest of us, money is a means to pursue our interests. For example if you like travelling(and you don't work for Travel and Living), you must take a job and save enough to pack up your bags and leave for that trip you have been wishing to make for so long. Or if you are into gaming, maybe in some other countries you can make a decent living but not in India. So you need to have a job which pays you enough so that you can buy the next GTA,COD or Far Cry. So what should you do? For the next three years, read a lot, interact with people, take up a sport, participate in fests. In essence you got three years, make the most out of it, constructively. Who knows, maybe you find a new interest which you can transform into a career or even start your own company. Trust me you don't know yourself well enough yet. I know how it is before enterance exams. Parents enroll us in coaching classes without asking us what we really want to do. BUt let bygones be bygones and concentrate on your future. Dont mess up your grades. Just by listening to the lectures and giving some time to studies regularly you can score decent grades. But the point is after four years you must find a general guideline as to how you want to live your life. What is it that makes you happy and how can you achieve that. There is no need to need to to push the panic button yet. It's ok if you don't know what career you want to choose but you are asking the right questions and you got time to figure that out. I hope I made some sense and helped you. All the best!

you could see if m des( master of design ) intrests you as a career choice,  one helpful website http://teacupblog.blogspot.in/. there are several fields like product design, industrial design, automobile design, user interface design, graphic design, animation design etc. you have to give CEED exam . some institutes take you with your GATE scores too. ceed exam website- http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/ceed2014/post1.html

This is a one of common situations that Students finds themselves while pursuing Engineering which includes even the IIT Students. There is famous saying... As a Rule..Man is a Fool When it's Hot, He wants it Cool When it's Cool, He wants it Hot Always Wanting, What is Not!! Students tends to feel that..B.Tech is not meant for them, which is actually the other way around. They don't want it, maybe because maybe they are not able to cope with the pressure, gell up with the peer group or they might find students enjoying and performing well in other streams. In our childhood, some days we wanted to be Cricketers after watching Sachin Tendulkar, Some days, we wanted to be Flimstars like Sharukh Khan,  after wathcing his flims, Some days maybe a Business Man...So you see, it kept changing everyday. I think, many students find themselves in similar situation when they start their Engineering BTech is not the end of the road...You will find numerous people who changed their line after completing their Engineering. Some went for their MBA, some into writings, some started their own business. It is never a compulsion, that if you are from an Engineering Background, you won't be able to make it to any other streams, Having said that, it implies that, you will have give a bit extra when competing with them. All you need is to be calm and complete your Degree with all your dedication, start looking out for the opportunities in Engineering and other Fields...weight them...according to your unbiased expectations and then make the selection. Completing an Engineering Degree will not only equip you with this Corporate world, but will also help you to grow as a Strong Person who can make his decisions wisely.

Hello Guy, First of all Congratulations. That's because you've realized that Engg. is not a career for you in the first year unlike myself on whom it dawned upon only after I ended up in a http://job.So I guess you're just below 20 years of age and its not too late. In fact it is never too late.   So you think I've got an interesting story to back my theory?.Yes I do have one but it is not as hopeful as the other answers here.I didn't end up as an Scuba Diver or Entrepreneur or wildlife photographer. No. I'm still a IT engineer in CTS, working my ass off for the 30k I get at the end of every month, most of which I spend away to hide the fact MY LIFE SUCKS BIGTIME. I know how compelled you must be to support your family with your income and to go them during the holidays so they can see what a man you've become. Let me just warn you now, the faster you fall into that trap the harder it is going to be for you to get out. First of all, find something that you love and chase it until you're dead. Yeah by then, your friends will be getting their jobs and they might even get married. But you'll be a person who stood for his dreams unlike me who doesn't have the courage to break away from the shackles. Once you dream comes true your family will support you and that day you'll be proud for the real man you've become. So don't settle for less and never stop believing in yourself. You'll be someone great sometime and it always beats being someone who settled for mediocre. I'm quitting my job in September and I'm going away to chase my dreams and I'm 25 .I' So you've got 5 years on me. So see you at the end. Cheers

Have you heard these line anywhere? The biggest trap that you can fall into is if you can be successful without giving your 100 percent in whatever you are doing......... if success comes to you easily, be very careful. It's treacherous path to tread down'. A career with challenges and fights is very interesting, believe me. Without fighting hard you will end up seeing yourself riding on the same mundane path which is rode by most of the people around. And you are in the first year only. A lot of time is there to excel in the field you have chosen. And more you fight for achieving this excellence, the more you will enjoy it and the fear of what you think you might have wrongly done will keep on vanishing. Fight my friend, fight against everything which scares you and fight hard. The world will be under your feet.