Evolution of Bloggers from Engineering — The Indian Scenario
Every Engineering graduate is a blogger now. I’m serious, just go ahead and look at your friends’ Facebook or Twitter profiles, you can see either ‘Admin at example.com’ or ‘CEO & Founder at example.com.’ isn’t it? So, why there’s a sudden growth in Blogging in India now?
Well, Blogging has been there in India, but it’s more of personal Blogging, and now bloggers have taken it to the next level, which you can call it at the corporate level [the pro bloggers are calling it!]. The rise of Blogging was not sudden, and it increased gradually. The fuel for this Blogging came from forums in the pre-Facebook group era; everyone’s ideal place was chilling out at online forums and checking out the methods of what you can do online to make money & other stuff. Though it was the primary fuel, I still say it was from one’s interest too.
Now, bloggers are full of dropped-out or passed-out Engineering graduates who have no idea why they did engineering but came into Blogging. Let’s have a look at the evolution of bloggers from engineers. For a better understanding, I divided them into two categories, let’s say Type — 1 & Type -2.
Evolution of Bloggers From Engineering
Type -1:
- Engineers passed out about five years ago, and they can’t get into the software field as either they are not interested or don’t meet the requirements
- They don’t know what to do after Engineering as the unemployment was higher [and still high], but to survive they need some medium [to earn]
- No idea how to start a business as all their business ideas were either inspired by books or movies
- Their possible choices are either to get a call center job [BPO] and work as a slave or do something better than that [or worse].
That’s how most of them got into Blogging and took it as their career. The failure rate was meager, and most of the bloggers who started full-time blogging back in 2010 are all thriving now.
Why do you need to work under someone when you have the capability to guide others to become like you?
Type -2:
It is my favorite type. Most of these bloggers fell under 14–18 and wanted to do something besides studying. [I’m going with the negative part]
- Just from high school, most of them become experts [it’s magic folks] by reading eBooks downloaded from underground forums & they also want to show their talent to the world
- They have no idea why they are doing Engineering as already know how to survive, or you can say they have the tools to survive [money]
- They already are aware of their future, and their future lies in Blogging and not in some job [ can’t be a work slave]
- So, they get into Blogging and become pro bloggers or experts in Blogging [just like that].
Someone said, there are no shortcuts to success in life, but if you see the Type-2 Engineering/ bloggers you think the quote is wrong.
Okay, let’s keep the sarcasm out, and the main reason for getting into Blogging is to enjoy some perks. For suppose, let’s take tech bloggers [which I’m one of them by the way] you get paid for attending events, reviewing the gadgets, and receiving them as gifts. Also, the best part is you get to participate in the product launches and review them.
Why do you need some job when you are getting paid to write something that no one will even consider reading? That’s the type -2!
It’s not just in Tech Blogging, you can find Type 2 bloggers in every niche.
Now, you might be wondering if there are many other types of engineering graduates getting into Blogging for different reasons. Let me tell you one thing — You might be familiar with the concept of permutations & combinations or Probability.
I feel there are only two essential aspects in everything, let’s say good & bad, head or tail of a tossed coin, true or false, 1 or 0, etc. We just made up some combinations to explain things, but they are purely based on two logical things. So, I believe the above two types are the main things, and from which we can derive many combinations.
Anyhow, this is how the Indian Engineering graduates are evolving from jobless graduates to Bloggers.
Note: This article was first published on my blog dated December 3, 2016, and republished here.
