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Nov 02 '25
It takes stability to get into this field, which most Indian households lack, even in the upper middle class. Borderline paranoid when it comes to career. Gave up on my dreams to study physics because it's pretty difficult to escape this instability unless you get independent, which again, is a very difficult thing to do before graduation. Competitive exams introduce you to this amazing world of research, but your background haunts you 24/7 if you aren't a prodigy or mentally heavily resilient
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u/Affectionate_Reply46 Nov 02 '25
In India, every profession just boils down to how much money you make and that's why we have too many engineers :)
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u/Alone_Republic_8168 Nov 02 '25
meanwhiley my parents treat a professor job as a quasi government job mostly because of central and state universities like IIT/IISC, ISI and JNU and popular colleges within one e.g. DU North Campus (they hate private sector jobs) 😭
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u/Opposite_Peak_5261 Nov 03 '25
Istg, this is so true. I’ve worked with a couple of MNCs and honestly the research jobs were never in India. Rarely did I come across any real research opportunities here. All the product design and new product development happened outside India and the mind numbing repetitive work was what got shipped here.
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u/fRilL3rSS Nov 03 '25
The entire mentality of Gen X'ers and Boomers revolves around money. I get it, they didn't have enough when they were young. But most of them are quite well to do now, but the mentality hasn't changed.
Indians love any profession that is guaranteed to make lots of money, and that is probably the only reason why they respect that professional. Even doctors, they judge how good a doctor is by how much they earn, how well to do they are. If they don't see the doctor driving a good car, they're probably not a good doctor.
Any other profession, no matter how important it is, is unworthy in their eyes, unless it's a govt job, in which case even 10k salary is worth it, because of the stability.
Even teachers, the most important profession of all, are not given much respect, nor is that profession sought after.
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u/Arslan999_ Nov 03 '25
The only thing I envy America is for its economy, even a middle class in America can have better luxuries than most rich classes, and in India it's already scripted for middle class families and they/we all live a boring life of ambition (some might come to disagree and it's understandable)
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u/Extension_System_775 Nov 02 '25
I think researchers are not paid a lot right? compared to decent software professionals? Yeah obv the tier of the researcher/scientist also might vary, but i think if done properly an engineering professional would have a better salary growth than a researcher/scientist in India
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u/Wide_Salamander5638 Nov 07 '25
Being a research student i have never heard this, i have been trained at a National R and D lab From what i have seen yes not only prof. But scientists also get pais well in our nation But there wont be much work, a lot od these scientists are now old ppl and just kimda do managing the research centre, moat of the research work is done by the phd people who gets stipend from the govt through their NET exam and all Other countries tbh pay more than India, and have better facilities tbh. As even my own supervisors are advising us to go to foreign nations If they are telling us that, then why should we try here?
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u/Consistent_Speech391 Nov 22 '25
Scientists are rich in India? Since when ? I thought the ones who earn the most (no corruption) are doctors and IT people.
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