Quite a vague question to start with :-)

Are we fit for this salary?,
Are we fit for wat we are?,
Are we overpaid ?

Quite a wage question to start with :-)

We are the people who born with most luckiest star" of about 100 crore around us. We have been provided with the best by the parents and by the country rather than our parents by the country. India have always been a country with debt on her name and provided the best to the citizens. Is that possible with any other country ?. Answer, No where (I am not sure of). Our motherland has provided always the best to us from the birth,the education and to the eternity.We have always enjoyed from school to college with gov pass for bus, cycle for students, even full fee exemption and even now after the college we have given a magical tags. Ya, most people would have guessed it correctly, this article is focussed on Software professional &
industry and my views about it...

Am I worth for this salary..,We the s/w professionals (all s/w engg) who born with a golden spoon and walking all the way to the college with a pride. Happy saying to the world that we are making our economy improve. Is that what we are doing ?. The "software professional", is that magical words are worth saying. How much we are contribution to the amount we are paid for. As most of you know, I completed my under graducation from communication stream. Come out
of college with a magical number (not in cgpa anyways) that are called as my Salary. From the day-one in my office I had a question in my mind Am I making sense for those magical numbers (Even if I put my fullest potential). After a 20 months of my sofware industry experience i feel "No majority are not contributing to how much they get". Question it urself...

Is our product status worth for Big money..,Is our products worth for those big money ?. Still I feel the same NO, its not worth that much. But, why we are paid so much from this industry ? (Anyways a cheap labour) I didnt get a proper answer.Why the hell the indian software engineers are given so much hype. Are we doing any meaningful work (I am not blaming all the companies, its about the rest 90% who are into something, Only 10 % does good work). Why is it so ? We are providing a very extensive support for the service industry why not to the product industry ? Do we have any real product company ? As an IT major, how many products we have that will drive the next generation software industry. I personally feel we didnt have anything of that sort. We are trying to take all kinds of junk work across all the sectors from all countries and support the/ make the customer feel happy. Remember we are paid for the laziness of the US people. We are not paid for work (:-)). If he becomes energetic or capable of handing it himself, What are we going to do ?

Why other sector are treated as step-mother's child..,
Compared to the IT/ITES sector other sectors perform very well and also support heavly to the indian Economy, for example indian infrastructural industry, retail sector, power are contributing more to the economy than the IT sector. Why those sectors are not giving the enough importance. Why we people (in general )believe strongly in this sector alone. Another factor is that its possible to create a better job and sustainable growth from other sector too. I personally feel the IT sector is creating a major gap with in the middle class people and also with the poverity line people. IT sector increases the affordability of few people and firing the inflation in larger extent.

Are we really stressed in this JOB :-)..,
Another big thing i feel so much petty about this industry is that, people in IT industry always use a term called "Stress". I met one of my friend after a long time in railway station. I was asking him how his health is, he gave a reply like "I am much stressed, because of my job (S/W)". I have heared a general assumption from people saying IT people are much stressed. Is that the general scenario. I have a BIG NO for these general assumptions too. There are people in other industry work for 12 /14 hours and they are comfortable with their jobs. What makes people so restless ? I feel its all money & hype driven for this IT industry People like fund managers, who work for 15 hours a day are much strained. Think again are we really strained ? If so Why ?

Are are working for our full potential (Majority of people)? I hope this question is very obvious for all :-). I think we are not working for our fullest potential. Neither we are expected to do that.

Minting money is different and giving a statement like "We are contributing to the economy growth" are we self content ?,Think again are we really the major contributors to the nations economy :-( ???. I am happy and proud to say that people working in this sector are the major contributors of the income tax. Still as a whole i am not convinced with whats happening in and around the IT sector.