Today was the last day for Metrology class. Instead of giving regular study materials, the lecturer gave the class last advice for the final test. Well, it wasn't actually an advice though. More of a story whatsoever.
It started when he told us to read more the materials that was there in the textbook. And then he started off from the nature of reading (how to do a good reading, understanding, application, etc etc) until at certain point, he arrived (I don't remember the connection exactly) to the topic where he revealed the sin that us, engineers (expecially ITB graduated engineers), had been doing in the past decades.
Why are there a lot of graduate students from engineering that finally ended up working in a bank? In this term, it meant that they ended up not working on the field they've been studying in the past years of college. Well, there are reasons. Mister Yuwono (my lecturer for Metrology, that is) said that one of them is that being an engineer, in Indonesia expecially, won't give you a good carreer path. Why? For example, if you (an engineer) work in industry, you might just ended up being operator instead of a real engineer. And for the rest of your life, you'll be operator.
Why operator, not engineer? In industry, for example: a factory, an operator is someone who run and do labor works. Assembling, running the machines, fixing things are the jobs of operator while engineer usually involved in the whole analysis and designing stuff. OK, for example, if a machine broken, the engineer would have the responsibility to analyze, calculate, and redesign or replan everything so that the production would run once again with the same or even higher efficiency. And after that, it's the operator who execute the dirty work.
OK, enough of that. So like, why are there so many engineers betrayed their profession? It's because once you're in, as an engineer (or operator, for this matter), you won't get a level-up. You will be an operator level, or engineer level for the rest of your life, in that industry (factory, for this matter).
That's probably why, some engineers chose to take MBA or MM as their master degree instead of continuing their specified master program in engineering. They do so to open a chance to mobilize themselves to the position of managerial office for a better promotion, salary and for some, better behind-the-desk job.
It started when he told us to read more the materials that was there in the textbook. And then he started off from the nature of reading (how to do a good reading, understanding, application, etc etc) until at certain point, he arrived (I don't remember the connection exactly) to the topic where he revealed the sin that us, engineers (expecially ITB graduated engineers), had been doing in the past decades.
Why are there a lot of graduate students from engineering that finally ended up working in a bank? In this term, it meant that they ended up not working on the field they've been studying in the past years of college. Well, there are reasons. Mister Yuwono (my lecturer for Metrology, that is) said that one of them is that being an engineer, in Indonesia expecially, won't give you a good carreer path. Why? For example, if you (an engineer) work in industry, you might just ended up being operator instead of a real engineer. And for the rest of your life, you'll be operator.
Why operator, not engineer? In industry, for example: a factory, an operator is someone who run and do labor works. Assembling, running the machines, fixing things are the jobs of operator while engineer usually involved in the whole analysis and designing stuff. OK, for example, if a machine broken, the engineer would have the responsibility to analyze, calculate, and redesign or replan everything so that the production would run once again with the same or even higher efficiency. And after that, it's the operator who execute the dirty work.
OK, enough of that. So like, why are there so many engineers betrayed their profession? It's because once you're in, as an engineer (or operator, for this matter), you won't get a level-up. You will be an operator level, or engineer level for the rest of your life, in that industry (factory, for this matter).
That's probably why, some engineers chose to take MBA or MM as their master degree instead of continuing their specified master program in engineering. They do so to open a chance to mobilize themselves to the position of managerial office for a better promotion, salary and for some, better behind-the-desk job.
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