"Scope" of your engineering studies

Interestingly, everytime I visit India, I end up meeting someone or the other who talks about the "scope" of engineering studies.  "Is there scope for Mechanical Engineering nowadays? I saw an article in the paper yesterday that the scope for  it is declining!"- asks my dad. But it's not just him. Very notable journalists and career gurus come up with bizarre  statements in newspapers and magazines like- "there is little scope for civil engineering".Sources they look at are - private engineering college admissions.

Let's analyze the validity of such articles. The kids who get into engineering are almost 18 yrs old..so if you base your argument on a teenager's forecast of a job market and economics four years down the line in a world where even Nobel prize winning economists are struggling to predict the economy... Good job guys !!!

So what is this "scope" all about? - a good job with a good salary. Will you get one? The answer is...you will as long as you do your basics well and luck is in your favour. The success rate for such an event cannot be predicted. So instead of speculating on the scope of a field, try to learn whatever best you can ...do the basics right and hope for the best. The world is too big a place, there's space for everyone to fit in...so stop bothering children with all this crap....