I graduated from CSE degree a bit late. I was 24 by the time I graduated. Then I worked in private firm for 2+ years.
Then I quitted my job to prepare for Government IT jobs because they were stable, gave a Officer Level role for someone who is a BTech graduate.
It has been 9 months since I started studying.
Although I have little bit of savings, I was living with my parents.
The household situation got really toxic with my father and I moved to my uncle's house(based on my mother's suggestion and coordination with uncle).
I have been staying at my uncle's house for 4+ months.
All I have been doing is studying for government job in this free time.
The problem is whenever they see me playing in my free time, the aunt feels "Oh look he is wasting time". I do not think they are wrong to feel so. In no other countries of the world would anyone feed someone for free for 4+ months.
Now I am done with syllabus. And the expectations from my parents and uncle(specially the aunt wants to get me a job quickly so that I move out from their home) is for me to get a job.
What I feel?
- I can now crack any government IT/engineering exams that appear in front of me. I understand that it is also a matter of luck and chance. And I cannot say I will not work and wait for the government job at the age of 27.
- getting a private firm job will mostly be a waste of time. Here is why I believe so. There will be some learning required. Most of my time has gone into studying computer science/engineering subjects for government IT/CPE jobs. I used to work with linux and servers. It has been 9 months since I have touched the Linux CLI.
If I am to re-enter private sector, I think I should do some RHCSA/RHCE type of certifications, build up my level and apply. But I find that waste of time and resources because I do not see my future in private IT sector.
Plus the private sector roles(at least the title) are way below my academic qualifications. Although the salary is not. And people have that perception that "I am doing assistant level work as an engineer".
I feel I should enter teaching field for Bachelors in IT. But getting such a chance is rare as I do not already have a Masters degree.
I talked with my mother(who used to be a teacher for elementary school in those days) regarding teaching High School kids and she interfered telling "You will have to study what is not relevant for government jobs and probably dedicate lots of work hours to high school".
She believes getting an IT job will help build skills as well.
I agree on that specially if both school teaching and IT jobs are full time.
If I had a chance, I would love to do some non-IT jobs as well. For example: Content writing etc. Or any other jobs that do not require huge skillset and learning curve.