Wasted Education

Recently there was a famous marriage in Bangalore. The bride has a B. Tech degree in Bioengineering but chose to become a professional Carnatic music singer. 

I have read about a few Tamil movie actresses have medical degrees but decided to be in the movies. 

I have also read many IIT graduates have qualified and became members of the Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service. 

My thinking is why do not they have clear thinking about what career they want before joining these professional courses. These professional degrees are “wasted” when someone pursues another career path. These students acquire deep technical expertise in their respective field. But when they choose to have a career in a different field, their highly specific skills may go underutilized. 

It is difficult to get admission into these programs. If after graduating they choose a different career, it means they “took up” a space in the program that could have been offered to someone more committed to use the degree in its intended field. 

It is a waste that the valuable skills and knowledge acquired are not benefiting society.

Name Change

President Trump who is angry with Mexico due to border issues renamed Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America. 

Since Trump is making Canada angry, Canada decided to name their famous Americano coffee as Canadiano coffee. 

I support Trump and therefore want to give him some suggestions. 

Change the name of French fries to American fries. 

Since there is a problem of tariff with India, change the name of the Indian Ocean to American Ocean. 

If Germany does not listen to our ordering around, change the name of Hamburger to Pittsburger (since Pennsylvania State, a swing state, voted for Trump). 

If England does not listen to our advice, then change the name Yorkshire Pudding to New Yorkshire Pudding. 

Most famous pizza in USA, is Chicago style deep dish pizza. But Chicago mayor and Illinois Governor do not want to cooperate with the feds for crackdown on illegal immigrants. Change the Chicago style deep dish pizza to Mara-a-Lago style deep dish pizza. Mara-a-Lago is where Trump’s permanent residence. 

Most famous food item in Ukraine is Odessa-style borscht. It is a beet root-based soup. Because Zelensky and Trump had a mouth to mouth combat a few days ago, Trump should decide to rename it to Odisha-style borscht. Two birds with one stone. Anger Zelensky and at the same time make his friend Modi happy.

Can you give me some more ideas?  Please write it in the comments.  I will inform Mr. Trump.  I have his phone number.  I will certainly tell him you suggested this so you can get a MAGA hat.

Interesting Incident

There was an Indian lady (let us call her Latha) working in a famous insurance company in San Francisco. Every day she used to go to the office cafeteria for lunch. There she met an American lady (let us call her Cynthia) and they became friends. They used to meet every day for lunch. 

They became such close friends that they used to talk about even their personal private matters. It went on for about almost 2 years. 

Both of them never asked the other which department they worked and what is their job. They just met during lunch time and talked subjects other than the office stuff. 

After 2 years, one day Latha told Cynthia that she is quitting her job to take care of her family. Cynthia then invited her for lunch the next day in a restaurant (and not the office cafeteria) as a parting farewell. Latha said she would like to accept her invitation but she does not know if her supervisor would allow her to go for an extended lunch time.

Now Cynthia asked Latha which department she worked and what is her supervisor’s name. Latha informed the name of the department and the supervisor’s name. Cynthia said she would talk to her supervisor. 

After lunch, Latha came to her office. Her supervisor was all nervous and asked Latha how she knew Cynthia. This innocent Latha said they used to meet for lunch at the cafeteria every day for 2 years. The supervisor asked Latha if she knew what Cynthia’s job in the corporation. Latha said she does not know and does not care. They were just lunch time friends. 

The supervisor told Latha she can take the whole afternoon off the next day. 

Latha asked the supervisor what does Cynthia do. The supervisor said Cynthia is the Chief of Staff for the CEO of this large Insurance Company.