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No astonishments !! No Surprises !!
Its not a conclusion of just one day. In fact its a cumulative result of the one month trauma given to me during my industrial training. Added to this is the greed of lustrous MBA career that has mined this blog from my heart.
Its not that I’m discouraging my fellow batch mates here in Mining Engineering. But being my self a mining engineering student I have got full liberty to criticise Mining. Friends I assure you that I won’t be biased in making the comparison and if you find some anomaly anywhere down from here , the comment section awaits your fervent comment.
So, Lets play the game,
You will start early at 21 or 22 and so you will be at a more reputed ( when I say repute, its social repute not monetary repute) place at the instant when an MBA grad will just start.
You will have your job secured as most of the Mining companies are in Public Sector both in India and abroad. (Engineers for Indian PSU’s are like their son in laws, they will die but can’t throw you out.)
You will be having an option to switch your career to almost any field of your choice at any point of time if you are an MBA grad.
You will be forced to work in remotest possible region if you are an Mining Engineer unless you are that lucky to be the 1 billionth child of India. (I myself had to travel 15 kms to Jamshedpur when I was in Narwapahar Uranium Mine Township to get a CCD for a coffee and believe me we all travelled 250 kms to Kolkata to get a ‘(K)entucky (F)ried (C)hicken’ for chicken burger .)
You will have to study even after you get a reputed job as a Mining Engineer as you will be asked to compete for the FIRST CLASS MINE MANAGER’s CERTIFICATE and before that you will be required to qualify the LAMP HANDLING CERTIFICATE too. So, GPA will be running behind to kill you there also.
As a Mining Engineer you will be paid with a very high salary as you will be in very high demand as total number of Mining Engineers passing out every year from colleges of good repute is merely 230. (2,50,000 software engineers pass out every year in our country)
If you work in a PSU you will be credited for your contacts in top offices not for the work you do. (Its a harsh reality). And if you go for any private sector company in Mining they will pay you in scraps.
Every Mining Engineer has to deal directly with the fourth grade employees which means a gradual downfall in your personality. You will have to shout at them as they are generally mulish and refrain doing any task assigned to them.
Mining Engineers and their families are generally deprived of literally and culturally high environment. Their world becomes confined to their township and they won’t have much topics to discuss. They have very limited social life as most of the townships are located far from the cities.
Mining Engineers are very prone to health hazards like pneumoconiosis and leukaemia arising out of inhalation of coal dusts in case of coal mining and due to radioactivity of Uranium in case of Uranium Mining.
Moreover if you are a mining engineer you will have to continue with that till you say good bye. The best thing you can do is to enter the R&D or be a professor or enter any mining consultancy but be sure you won’t be able to quit Mining field completely.
If you want to go for higher studies and you plan to get admitted into some international university ,then you will have to go for Geology and Earth Sciences.(Although the competition for Mining Engineers is easier as compared to other branches of Engineering).
And the last and the foremost thing for we bachelors that Mining Engineers are not made for Girls. GIRLS and MINING ENGINEERS are like ‘oasis’ and the ‘iceberg’.
P.S: All the views about Mining has been compiled after author’s personal stay in a township of Uranium Mine at Narwapahar, Jamshedpur for a month.
Its not a conclusion of just one day. In fact its a cumulative result of the one month trauma given to me during my industrial training. Added to this is the greed of lustrous MBA career that has mined this blog from my heart.
Its not that I’m discouraging my fellow batch mates here in Mining Engineering. But being my self a mining engineering student I have got full liberty to criticise Mining. Friends I assure you that I won’t be biased in making the comparison and if you find some anomaly anywhere down from here , the comment section awaits your fervent comment.
So, Lets play the game,
You will start early at 21 or 22 and so you will be at a more reputed ( when I say repute, its social repute not monetary repute) place at the instant when an MBA grad will just start.
You will have your job secured as most of the Mining companies are in Public Sector both in India and abroad. (Engineers for Indian PSU’s are like their son in laws, they will die but can’t throw you out.)
You will be having an option to switch your career to almost any field of your choice at any point of time if you are an MBA grad.
You will be forced to work in remotest possible region if you are an Mining Engineer unless you are that lucky to be the 1 billionth child of India. (I myself had to travel 15 kms to Jamshedpur when I was in Narwapahar Uranium Mine Township to get a CCD for a coffee and believe me we all travelled 250 kms to Kolkata to get a ‘(K)entucky (F)ried (C)hicken’ for chicken burger .)
You will have to study even after you get a reputed job as a Mining Engineer as you will be asked to compete for the FIRST CLASS MINE MANAGER’s CERTIFICATE and before that you will be required to qualify the LAMP HANDLING CERTIFICATE too. So, GPA will be running behind to kill you there also.
As a Mining Engineer you will be paid with a very high salary as you will be in very high demand as total number of Mining Engineers passing out every year from colleges of good repute is merely 230. (2,50,000 software engineers pass out every year in our country)
If you work in a PSU you will be credited for your contacts in top offices not for the work you do. (Its a harsh reality). And if you go for any private sector company in Mining they will pay you in scraps.
Every Mining Engineer has to deal directly with the fourth grade employees which means a gradual downfall in your personality. You will have to shout at them as they are generally mulish and refrain doing any task assigned to them.
Mining Engineers and their families are generally deprived of literally and culturally high environment. Their world becomes confined to their township and they won’t have much topics to discuss. They have very limited social life as most of the townships are located far from the cities.
Mining Engineers are very prone to health hazards like pneumoconiosis and leukaemia arising out of inhalation of coal dusts in case of coal mining and due to radioactivity of Uranium in case of Uranium Mining.
Moreover if you are a mining engineer you will have to continue with that till you say good bye. The best thing you can do is to enter the R&D or be a professor or enter any mining consultancy but be sure you won’t be able to quit Mining field completely.
If you want to go for higher studies and you plan to get admitted into some international university ,then you will have to go for Geology and Earth Sciences.(Although the competition for Mining Engineers is easier as compared to other branches of Engineering).
And the last and the foremost thing for we bachelors that Mining Engineers are not made for Girls. GIRLS and MINING ENGINEERS are like ‘oasis’ and the ‘iceberg’.
P.S: All the views about Mining has been compiled after author’s personal stay in a township of Uranium Mine at Narwapahar, Jamshedpur for a month.
