“How many engineers?”

Disclaimer: This blog does not deal with the question or suggests any solution to the above question, or its various misconstrued manifestations!

Then why the heck am i blogging about it?

I made a trip to my cousins place after a loooong time. I enter their house this time with a whole new feel. I enter as an Application Developer of a leading software firm. Head held high and the air of satisfaction and what not. Adding to it, my inquisitive cousin getting every boast-able detail about my placement There is this cute kid who is not sure what all the noise all is about. She asks her mother, “Mom, Does everyone do engineering? Do i also have to study engineering? ” Worse to follow, the mom just redirects the question to me with a wide smile. I felt like a deflated balloon for a moment. All I told was “Engineering is what everyone does..”.