One step before your self esteem

Mostly, if not all of them, there are two type of engineers in Pakistan.

First are those who are highly casual. They take everything for granted. The projects they are responsible for, the routine they should follow, the behaviour they must adapt, everything almost every necessary thing required to excel in their professional life is harnessed informally. All this will not help them much in their professional life, but the most important thing which they take casually is the project specifications and quality. When they are made responsible for the projects, all they want is take this devil out of there head as soon as possible. No matter what they prepare, no matter how they do it. It should be done well before the time line.

This attitude can never make you a very good engineer. Yes, most of them gradually gain good positions. Because there is one thing they are good at "Buttering". This vary skill can raise you up but never raise your respect. I have seen many departmental heads whose colleagues abuse them when they are not around. Ultimately they realise that they are rich in wealth but poor in respect. The final output is a grand loss.

Second type is my preference, they can improve if they rectify some of the practices. They are the perfectionists. When they are being made responsible for the projects or any part of the project, they try to learn about it, develop methodologies to execute the tasks and prepare teams as good as they can. Usually they are very interested in maintaining the quality. But then they miss the most important thing once said by bill gates, "The world wants something from you, well before you can satisfy your self-esteem". They unintentionally delay the projects so that it can become perfect.

Actually here is the thing which everyone needs to learn. A project is considered as a perfectly completed project when all the points mentioned in the scope of work are achieved and the objective is fulfilled. But for them, a perfect project is something which satisfies their self-esteem. They should realise that a project worth millions can't have a budget of billions. A project that has to be completed in 04 months is considered perfectly complete, if it is completed in 4 months.

Everyone has an artist hidden inside them. Studying engineering has never accomplished the destruction of this person. These studies actually gives the art a perfection. Art gives you, ideas and engineering? Engineering never underestimates those ideas, it shows you how to make them look real. An initial sketch on the pad, is made practical using Auto-Cad. An identification of problem by personal observations are reinforced by numbers given to you by engineering methods. If you don't maintain the balance between the concept and practicality, you just waste more and more time. For all the people who stand in the second zone, they should know that a decision has to be made before the time is over, before self-esteem is achieved, before you are very, and very happy.

They need to learn that first and most important quality of a good decision maker is not that they take good decision, but, they take them on time.