“Entrepreneurship is Living a few years of your Life like most people won’t,
So that you can Spend the rest of your Life like most people can’t.”
Entrepreneurship always comes with an element of risk, which is what most parents fear. But even with 90% of startups failing commercially, the entire process of becoming an entrepreneur ensures that students who embark on this journey early in life, end up with the latest industry skills, knowledge and experience, which makes them highly employable graduates.
Our current education system teaches students the history and theory of engineering but does not really train them to engineer a real product or solve a real-world problem. From Class 8th to 4thyear of engineering, our computer science students are mostly reversing a string or printing Fibonacci series in their computer labs, while with each passing technological revolution, their counterparts in the United States are building companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.
It has been a common notion among Indians to find jobs preferably in the government sector because of the job security it provides or else moves to the corporates, though this mindset is changing with time rapidly. It’s not easy for any government to create jobs at such a large scale considering the existing working population and the next generation coming in.
Several Enterprises started life as small campus startups set up by young students in their twenties. Well, India can also be the birthplace of such an enterprise because we are in the cusp of a student startup revolution. Now the time for students to think seriously about being a job creator rather than a job seeker and encourage people to become job creators, not job seekers.
It’s positive news for the country that today’s youth want to become entrepreneurs and it is evident from the last year’s start-up data which tells that more than 1200 new start-ups came up from last year taking the total to 7200. Though these are positive signs going ahead for the country we are still far away from our goals.
Thus, we need to overhaul the system of job seeking and encourage students to become job creators. They should be taught to take risks, challenges, and innovate as opposed to just lookout for a steady job. Job creators are going to be a great asset and will decide the country’s fortune in times to come.
– Written By Shivam Singh