Career Guidance

Students have different types of questions about their careers. Some of the students know about different career options and have made up their minds broadly on their career choices. Some know about their career choice, however, have limited information/ideas and want to know more. Some students are not aware of their career choice, however, have some faint idea of what they want to become. We also came across many students who have no idea of what they want to be. The book serves as a guide to all these four categories of students as discussed in the following diagram:

The present book is an endeavor to help all the students falling in different categories to make informed choices of their career options so that the choices are sustainable and more fulfilling. After all, we all spend a significant portion of our lives in the office/workspace. That is the reason why we should make the choices of our careers not only by looking at the pay packages, positions, and powers but also how these career options are aligned with our framework of life.

That is the reason why we need to know from the horse’s mouth. This book contains responses directly from people working in different professions/occupations, in different age groups, as to how they feel about their careers. It will provide information to the students about different career options to enable the students to make informed choices.

Background

While interacting with the kids in different schools, we realized that kids have a lot of anxieties and worries. To understand the anxieties and worries of the kids, firstly we circulated a Google form to the kids and carried out a survey to understand what was going on in their minds. The students were from 9th to 12th standard. The following pie chart will tell you the ratio:

The key takeaways from the survey were as follows:

a) Around 61% of the students are sure about the value of education in their lives.

b) Kids doubt the value of education primarily because of the following reasons:

· Difficulties in getting the job

· Lack of correlation between education and growth opportunities due to unfair systems

· Bookish knowledge is not helpful in the practical world

c) Around 33% of the kids have difficulties understanding what is being taught in the classroom.

Around 69% of the kids are confused about their future career goals.

e) Most of the students are confused between two or more career options and uncertain about their future

f) Around 78% of the students want to know more about their career options:

Most of the students wanted to know about the following:

Different career options: pros and cons
How to prepare for different careers
How to handle emotions
To understand more about the meaning of life

In the process, we again interacted with the kids at different schools, and during our interactions, we found that most of the kids were quite unaware of the reasons behind their career choices.

h) Interestingly, the children have quite diverse interest areas. However, these interest areas are quite disconnected from their career choices.

A few observations from the results of the survey

There are few observations of the results of the survey. First, the majority of the students understand the value of education. Second, we all want improvements in the current system of education, the method of teaching, and the content of the school books, and want the teachers to be more focused on their specific needs. Third, we all are concerned about the future. What will happen in the future? What career options do I take? How do I get guidance about different career options? Fourth, at this age, we all undergo a lot of emotional turbulence. Kids are looking for solutions to these emotional problems, which they may not be comfortable discussing even with their parents and their friends may not know any solution to these problems. Fifth, there is a general awareness among the students about mindfulness and some are even practicing mindfulness. However, there appears a small lack of understanding of what mindfulness is and how to practice the same.

Addressing the gaps

To address the gaps in the understanding of the students, we contacted around 300 participants from different fields to provide a realistic feel of different popular career choices. We asked the following questions from all the participants:

1. Email

2. Name

3. Age

4. Qualifications

5. Present occupation/profession

6. If you have cleared any competitive exam for the present occupation, please mention that exam.

7. What do you like about your occupation/profession?

8. What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?

9. Can you briefly describe your daily schedule to help students appreciate the kind of work they will be required to do?

10. What was your career goal as a student?

11. What made you decide to opt for the present career?

12. What were the challenges faced during the preparation?

13. Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?

14. What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?

15. What does your profession/occupation offer you?

16. Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention

17. What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?

18. Is there any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Though, nowadays, there is a lot of information available on the internet, it's very difficult to get insights about different career options directly from the people who have chosen those careers. The answers to the above questions are quite insightful and would be helpful for the students to make an informed choice about their careers. We have sorted the answers profession-wise and have maintained the age, qualifications, present occupation/profession, and competitive examination cleared by the participants as the mandatory fields.

The responses received from the people working in different fields address many of the concerns raised by the students in earlier surveys and interactions as follows:

a) Many students had doubts about the value of studies in life for reasons such as unfair systems, difficulties in getting the job, and booking nature of knowledge. To address these concerns, during the present survey, we asked the participants from different professions/occupations about their qualifications vis-à-vis their present occupation/profession, their career goal as a student, the requisite skill set required for success in their occupation/profession, etc. Their replies give an insight into whether the present educational system can offer some fulfilling career options and what are skill sets required to be developed by the students to be successful in different careers.

b) Most of the students were confused regarding future studies and the confusion was about choosing between different career options, the conflict between the career choices of the parents and the children, sustainability of their career choices, etc. To address these concerns, the participants in the present survey were asked as to what they like about their profession/occupation, what they dislike about their profession/occupation, and whether they feel that the challenges faced during the preparation were worth it. The participants were also asked about the opportunities for growth in different professions/occupations. These responses will address the concerns for the viability of a career choice, and whether the chosen career offers a fulfilling life. Queries like What was your career goal as a student, what made you decide to opt for the present career, what were the challenges faced during preparation, and whether the challenges faced were worth the effort, mirror the doubts faced by the participants during the preparation stage. These responses may be used as a tool to guide the students to make informed choices about their careers.

c) Students wanted to know about the pros and cons of different career options and also wanted to know about the meaning of life. The participants in the present survey were asked as to what they like and dislike about their professions/occupations and their daily schedule what their professions/occupations offer them, etc. These responses provide insight into the pros and cons of different career options that may be used by the students for reference to make informed career choices.

d) Many of the students were not aware of the desire behind their career choices. We asked the participants in the present survey about what they like and dislike about their career options, their daily schedule, what made them decide to opt for their present career, what the challenges faced during the preparation, and whether the challenges were worth the effort. These responses will help these students make better-informed choices.

e) We also found that many of the students have different areas of interest. However, their career choices were not aligned with their areas of interest. Responses of the participants in the present survey will help these students align their career choices to their area of interest.

How to read this book

During the survey, the participants were asked several questions. The following table contains each question and how best the answers may be used by the students:

Questions	Relevance of the question	How best to use
Age	The range of age of participants in this survey starts from 20s to close to 60s. It includes new-age start-up entrepreneurs to traditional professions of India like bureaucrats on the verge of retirement.	Students may evaluate the relevance of the occupation/profession in the current times. May also study how the popular professions/career choices are perceived differently by participants of different age groups.
What do you like about your occupation/profession?	As discussed above, most of the students are quite anxious about their career options and they are quite keen to know about the same. We have also seen that most of the students are not aware of their ambitions. It seems that in most cases, children set their ambitions based on peer pressure and prevailing beliefs about different career options. Hearing right from the horse’s mouth will help the kids in making informed choices about their careers. It is quite important to know what different people like about their professions/occupations.	Students may use these answers to understand what people in different professions/occupations like about their professions/occupations. The readers should carefully observe the age and qualifications of the participants. That will help them understand the perspectives of the participants at the beginning, middle, and end of their careers.
What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Equally important is to know what different people dislike about their careers. That gives students a balanced perspective.	Students may use these answers to understand the flip side of the coin. This perspective is generally difficult to know unless we interact with somebody directly.
Can you briefly describe your daily schedule to help students appreciate the kind of work they will be required to do?	At the end of the day, we spend the majority of our lifetime in the career we choose. Unless we like the job, whatever it offers will be of no use. That is why this will help students to know the daily schedule of the people working in different professions/occupations.	Students must put themselves in the shoes of the participants and feel that each day, they will live such a life. That will help students to evaluate their career options in real terms rather than merely be driven by the narrative the society has built around different career options. This question is geared towards providing a work-life balance in a particular profession.
What was your career goal as a student?	This will help students understand what factors different people have in their minds as students and how the same underwent a change over a while.	Students can relate to many of these stories. They can also understand how different factors very heavily while making career choices, and how many of them become irrelevant over some time as we grow. This may help students set the targets dynamically.
What made you decide to opt for the present career?
What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	This will help students to evaluate the challenges during preparation. This also provides an insight into his satisfaction level with his resultant career choice.	Students may get prepared for the challenges and may carry out the analysis of their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and make a pragmatic decision.
Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?
What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Sometimes we make the choices of career based on immediate outcomes such as pay-packages social recognition and ignore the potential that lies in different professions/occupations.	Students may like to see the answers of the participants from different age groups to appreciate the long-term potential of different career options so that they may make a wider and more informed decision.
What does your profession/occupation offer you?
Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	School time is one of the best times to develop different skills. The questions help the kids understand the value of different skills that they acquire during their school days and even later in life.	Students may take note of how some of the skills are required in almost all professions/occupations. While, on the other hand, some professions/ occupations require certain specific skills. Students may accordingly invest their time and energy to acquire different skills.
Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Advocate

(Total participants-12)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	27	67
	Qualifications	BA.LLB(H)	M. Sc, LL.M CA
	Present occupation/profession	Advocate	Practising Law
	Competitive exam	All India Bar Exam	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The complexities of how society functions and how law and order are maintained. Legal consequences to every action	Helping the people in right way
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The uncertainty of the outcome and the delays in the judicial system	Distrust by some people
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My daily schedule consists of conducting meetings with clients, drafting contracts, legal review of the business of my clients, and doing research to formulate legal opinions on legal questions asked by clients.	Getting up early in the morning physical exercise/walk, breakfast, reading the newspaper(s)and family interactions, working at the office/courts, and social interaction in the evening. In brief, not hectic yet satisfying.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	to help society	To get a position which could enable me to serve the society
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	To learn how to help society	Desire to do something for the common man
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Academic challenges in getting a good college and a good job afterward	Getting the right guide
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are a lot of options to expand and grow in my career. I can continue and become a partner in my firm, start my firm with my clients, or become an in-house counsel for a company. I can also become a professor of law.	No limit
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Opportunities to learn and intellectual curiosity	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	ability to read.	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	45	34
	Qualifications	BA LLB MBA	B. Sc., LL.B. / LL.M.
	Present occupation/profession	Litigation Lawyer	Advocate
	Competitive exam	No	All India Bar Examination
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Everything. It gives me a chance to earn good money, support my family, help me grow in all facets of life including spiritually, makes me an instrument to help a lot of people, and gives me the opportunity to be an agent of change for redressal of human problems.	It requires me to meet people from different backgrounds, professions & communities.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing.	There are unpredictable working hours.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Be in uniform in the morning and go to the court. After attending to the matters, Come Home, hold your office and entertain clients prepare the cases after thorough research. Give the dictation and file the cases in the court the next day, repeat	There is no daily schedule. It completely depends on the number of matters to be attended to on the particular day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Army officer	I wanted to be a litigating lawyer and own/manage my own law firm.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It just happened. God’s will.	I have individuals in my family who work in the same field.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	No challenge	I had to adapt to get into the habit of reading new and relevant updates i.e. news / legal updates.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Always	Yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It’s multidimensional growth. One can lead an independent office, join a law firm, or join the corporate sector. Join any company, government sector, international forum, et cetera. There are ample opportunities and scope for growth.	This profession enables you to have immense personal growth as an individual, which is predominantly intellectual. On a professional level, I aspire to run my own mid-size law firm.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	You learn from other people's mistakes
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	50	50
	Qualifications	BSc (H) Chemistry, LLB, MBA (Finance)	LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Lawyer and Mediator	Advocate
	Competitive exam	No	LLB entrance exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Learning new things every day. Lawyers are a pillar of society. In mediation, we get a chance to look into all types of cases and litigants tell us the truth.	Being part of the justice delivery system
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Sometimes, get frustrated.	Some people underestimate
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Wake up early morning, and reach the court by 9.30. Attend courts mostly by 2 PM. Thereafter have meetings with clients. In the evening go through the case files of the next day.	Busy from 9 am to 8 pm with case files for present-day and next-day cases including drafting etc
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become an engineer.	I wanted to become a commercial pilot.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Was not selected in engineering course after clearing written exam. Then I thought this was the other professional course that I could pursue.	Our ancestral revenue and civil litigation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	As I am the first generation in this field, so I have to make everything from zero. it was tough during the initial 3 years.	Lack of proper advice y
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The career of a lawyer is full of opportunities, like other fields this also requires hard work and a little bit of luck too.	One can become a judicial officer after advocacy
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Sometimes it give us an opportunity to do some social work, and satisfaction	Nothing
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience.

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	36	56
	Qualifications	LL.M	LL.M.
	Present occupation/profession	Legal practitioner	Advocate
	Competitive exam	No	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	enthusiasm or excitement either for something or about doing something.	Working to get justice for the people, helping to build a just society
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	No effective mechanism to impart justice-oriented training. There is training to handle rules and procedures for the judiciary but Bar doesn't have any such endeavour. Ethics are eroding speedily.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	There is no fixed schedule for this profession but sincerity and discipline can help you to have one.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To crack judiciary examination.	To be able to settle in life with a good reputation
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	During my internship days, I found litigation and mediation more fascinating.	This is one of the oldest celebrated profession
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Every day is a challenge in this profession.	initial struggle to gain the confidence of clients and to get a space in the profession in the eyes of bench and bar
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Uncountable opportunities are there in the legal profession.	Serving more and more people, enhancing recognition, reputation, and command on the subject
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		It gives a unique opportunity to actively participate in dispensing law and order in the society
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Sincerity and honesty

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age		45
	Qualifications	B.A. (Hons.), LL.B.	LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Practicing Advocate	Advocate
	Competitive exam	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Its importance and contribution to society. Dealing with and constantly learning new aspects of vast and varied fields of law, interactive nature and that it challenges you with every matter. Drafting, research, and mediation.	Strive to learn. and achieve. Getting experience with challenges. Above all fighting for others' rights.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	I being a shy person sometimes find it Disparate before and by the Courts. Arguments.	I like my profession the most but a thankless job. Some corrupt practitioners are tarnishing the image of the profession and creating distrust and disrespect for the profession. They forget that it is the profession of leaders and nation-builders.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Most of the time we need to be in Court at 10 am for your matters to appear, present our case, and/or argue. After matters sit in your chamber/office or run around to do miscellaneous and procedural work. In the evenings finish drafting and preparation of next day's matters.	First of all, keep yourself mentally and physically fit for a long day. Read and complete your briefs before the date to avoid last-day hassle. Make brief notes of the pleadings on the first page of the file. Keep a record of all the orders/ directions of the Court on the extra sheet or file cover. Maintain the daily diary.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	While doing better in your career to help those in need, especially the weaker sections of society.	Judicial officer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My father was instrumental in making me choose this career as he informed me about its importance in society.	By default
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The vastness and varied fields/subjects and disparity	Not much
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes always	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Since I am in litigation I want to open a firm in collaboration with like-minded colleagues	Designated Senior Advocate
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	NA	Love the challenges.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Out of box thinking	Curiosity to learn and explore more and more.

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	53	46
	Qualifications	B.Sc., LL.B.	MA LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Court-appointed Mediator, Advocate	Lawyer Mediator
	Competitive exam	NA	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Knowing that my work as a mediator in finding a mutually agreeable solution between disputing parties can immensely reduce the burden on the court system and contribute to a more efficient judicial process is gratifying.	Serving the society particularly those who do not have access to the legal system.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Maintaining emotional detachment while being empathetic is challenging.	People do not have faith and patience in the legal system.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Day at court starts with assigning cases for mediation, meeting the parties in dispute both individually and jointly, fostering a discussion ending in drafting of mediation settlement agreement and signing the same.	On every working day, I am available in courts, I am happy to guide the students on court premises.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Initially wanted to be a doctor, but life had other plans for me.	As a student of sociology, I found that the major section of society is deprived of the legal axis. Thus, I become a lawyer.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Feels good to help individuals move past their disputes and get on with their lives peacefully. Mediation has helped me hone my skills in negotiation, active listening, and problem-solving. These are valuable both professionally and personally.	Same as above.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not applicable	Having general issues like, language and educational status puts the hindrance in amicable solution during mediation.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	If you are motivated by the impact you can make in the judicial system, the professional and personal growth opportunities, and the intrinsic rewards of helping others, the challenges of being a court-appointed mediator are often worth the effort.	Yes, I do feel.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Further opportunities can be teaching mediation courses conducting workshops, and training less experienced mediators.	I am trying hard to make the system accessible to the majority of people.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Satisfaction for rendering service to society.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Architect

(Total participants-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	27	29
	Qualifications	Bachelor of Architecture	B. Arch
	Present occupation/profession	Architect	Architect
	Competitive exam	Nata and UPSEE	NATA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Creativity	Creative scope of work
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Late night working	Low salary
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Early Morning wake up and then work until you are out of energy.	The main thing about my work is it’s not like a 9-5 job the work hours can be extended so not any specific schedule as such
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Complete studies without any Backlog	I was not sure about the specific role as such but wanted to work in the creative field for sure
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	To think differently and creativity	My interest in creative things
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Late night studies, and Others	I did not have much guidance regarding this field, since many of my relatives come from the engineering field
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	So many opportunities	Since Currently I am working in foreign construction, I would be interested in working abroad on-site
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Work satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organise and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Out of box thinking

Banker

(Total participants-17)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age		30
	Qualifications	Graduate	to
	Present occupation/profession	service in bank	Banker
	Competitive exam		Probationary officer
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	have a chance to serve weaker section of society	New projects to handle
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Not holding people responsible for their work	Pressure from superiors
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Get up early morning to exercise. Work hard in my field and enjoy the work.	I reach the office at 10 am, make a schedule for the day, and try to complete all the work by 5:30 pm. Many tasks come randomly as dealing with new customers, and requisition of data by the head office. I mostly reach home at 7 and after that, I give time to my family, play with my kids, and do other work.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a rich and powerful person	To be a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Good salary due to pay protection, living with parents near to home. have enough time for myself	Social pressure to settle down and need some stability in my life
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	No guidance, no coaching, no idea regarding exams	Competition
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, it pushed me to find out the way	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	opportunities are open. Maybe a manager or a good officer	Be increase in my promotion and reach on higher authorities and head big projects and deal on behalf of my bank
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	help to complete my many personal works due to this job
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Behaviour is the most important skill and also keeping the mind cool enhances workability	Marketing and interaction skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	28	25
	Qualifications	B. Tech - (IT)	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Clerk at Nainital Bank	Officer scale 1 in Scheduled commercial bank
	Competitive exam	IBPS	Yes
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Job Security	Everything
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Public Dealing	Nothing as such
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	10 AM to 5 PM Public Dealing	Wake up, go to the office, study sleep, and repeat
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Get a government job	Joining Defence forces
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I was preparing for the banking sector and that's why I opted for this job	Medical rejection by the Medical Board of Defence Services
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Immense pressure builds up in my mind	Difficulties in current affairs and general awareness
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Not really	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Getting promotion	Promotions and better opportunities in big units
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Nil
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Nothing as such

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	30	28
	Qualifications	MBA (Finance)	B. Tech
	Present occupation/profession	Banker	Credit Officer in SBI
	Competitive exam	IBPS	SBI CBO
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Banking is a gentlemen's job where one gets an opportunity to serve society.	Helping the economy grow and giving credit to those in need
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing, I love my job & profile. I love to do credit assessments.	Location
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I manage whole branch banking & make credit decisions for lending.	Credit monitoring, Retail Loans, and Recovery in overdue Accounts
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a software engineer I have pursued B. Tech in Computer Science Engineering.	To have a stable career and a stable personal life
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Lucrative Salary and stable career.	Stability in the banking sector
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	To qualify in the competitive exam with better marks. Solving Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning questions was very cumbersome.	Competition from others
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I have the opportunity to excel in a banking career with good promotion and with evolving learning process.	Can reach the level of General Manager
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Carving out the social needs of society with the growth of the nation.	The respect we get from everyone around us
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Passion to learn and excel.	Risk Management

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	30	28
	Qualifications	MBA (Finance)	B. Tech
	Present occupation/profession	Banker	Credit Officer in SBI
	Competitive exam	IBPS	SBI CBO
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Banking is a gentlemen's job where one gets an opportunity to serve society.	Helping the economy grow and giving credit to those in need
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing, I love my job & profile. I love to do credit assessments.	Location
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I manage whole branch banking & make credit decisions for lending.	Credit monitoring, Retail Loans, and Recovery in overdue Accounts
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a software engineer I have pursued B. Tech in Computer Science Engineering.	To have a stable career and a stable personal life
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Lucrative Salary and stable career.	Stability in the banking sector
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	To qualify in the competitive exam with better marks. Solving Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning questions was very cumbersome.	Competition from others
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I have the opportunity to excel in a banking career with good promotion and with evolving learning process.	Can reach the level of General Manager
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Carving out the social needs of society with the growth of the nation.	The respect we get from everyone around us
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Passion to learn and excel.	Risk Management

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	29	31
	Qualifications	Graduate (B Tech)	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Service (State Bank of India)	Banker
	Competitive exam	Yes, SBI CBO Exam and Nainital Bank Management Trainee Exam	Nainital Bank PO exam.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Job Security, Good Salary Structure, can get this job in less amount of time in comparison to other jobs	Organization
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Long Working Hours, Long Distance postings from home	Nothing as such
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I reach the office by 9.45 AM, have to deal with different kinds of customers, also required to go outside of the branch to source new business for the bank and leave the office at around 8.00 pm	Daily banking operations. Handling customers and providing financial services.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be an Engineer	Millionaire.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	In the engineering profession, I have to struggle in the first few years, and I have to support my family financially. So, I chose a sector in which I got a stable job in 1 year	Stability and reputation with many growth opportunities.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Competition was very high and a large no of students were fighting for a few jobs	Competition
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To take further promotions and also have the opportunity to join RBI	Ample opportunities.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Team building skills and skills to handle tough situations. Emotional Intelligence.

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	50	34
	Qualifications	Post Graduate	B. Com (Hons), LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Banker	Sr. Manager (Law), Punjab and Sind Bank
	Competitive exam	IRDA and NISM	IBPS
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Discipline, Morales & Service mantras	Diversified work in the field of Law
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Disrespect and Corporate Politics	Late Sitting
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9 AM to 7 PM	Reach the office by 10 AM. Try to complete all the urgent pending compliances by 2 PM. Lunch at 2 PM. Have meetings with juniors/ colleagues from 3-3.30 PM and back to work at 3.30 PM and leave office by 7-7.30 PM
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Merchant Navy	Civil Services
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Government policy of privatization	As an alternate govt job in the field of Law
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Adapting to corporate culture	High cut-off marks and a lot of competition
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Various opportunities across areas of financial matters	May reach as GM- legal in the same organization
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Discipline and Ethics	Same as above
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Presence of mind and act of balancing	Same as above

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	35	51
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Banker	Banker
	Competitive exam	IBPS	Yes
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Building Relationship	The most important aspect is money.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	office is far away from my residence	None
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My day starts at 4:30 AM then I go for a workout 6-7:30 AM, and at 8 AM leave for the office. Then 10 AM -7 PM in the office	Network with bureaucrats for organizational wellbeing
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Pilot	To be a police officer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	While doing an MBA, I opted for finance.	To earn livelihood
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	My all colleagues were placed & only I was left. So, my suggestion will be that those who are still getting a degree must also prepare for the competitive exam.	None
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, Learned a lot. Specially Decision making & patience
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Currently, I am on scale 3 & Hierarchy is open till MD/CEO	Immense
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		You can solve and help many
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Listening skills and understanding body language

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16	17
	Age	43	33	49
	Qualifications	MBA	Masters In Financial Management	MA - Economics and B.Ed
	Present occupation/profession	Banker	Banking	Banking
	Competitive exam	CAT, MPMJET	NA	AMFI and IRDA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Meeting people and keeping updated	Stability	Hardly anything
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Lack of free time for travel. I wish I was an archaeologist or something like that.	Work culture in comparison to MNCs	Too laborious, no use of knowledge, stereotype work
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Waking up at 6:30 AM mostly. Light workout, newspaper reading, and heading to work. Late night coming back. Some discussion with family and sleep.	- Liaise with respective stakeholders like marketing, branch banking, RM, and Operations team to drive the product and handle day-to-day queries - Building a traction - Automation/ upgradation of process - Documentation
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Nothing in particular	Financial stability, Work-life balance, and skill upgradation on a timely basis	Be a chef or air hostess
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Just happened due to campus placement. I wish I would have had more time to think and options.	A step closer to my career goals	Parents
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of visual learning. Only books were available.	Switching from one role to another and learning a new role from ground zero	No challenges, just change me
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	I did not put much effort. But had to sacrifice my play time and extracurricular activities.	Absolutely	No
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Unlimited but it involves a lot of continuous learning	Having experience in multiple verticals gives you a broad mindset to think and outperform	Nil
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige	Financial security, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It keeps me updated
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Inquisitiveness

Businessman/woman

(Total participants-4)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age		26
	Qualifications	Post Graduate Program in Planning and Management	Postgraduate
	Present occupation/profession	Business	Family business
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Diversity of projects and hence the learning for self & the team. Providing solutions for customer website traffic growth, and solving customer business scale-up challenges. The huge scale-up opportunity is associated with the category in which we operate.	Consistency
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The challenges associated with - Startups, Huge Demand - Huge Supply market	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	a. Team huddle to access the progress/way forward on current Live Client Projects b. Analyzing data on associated Client projects to ascertain that directionally the projects are moving in the right direction as defined in the Service Agreement SoW c. Brainstorming sessions on particular problem statements that get escalated d. 1o1 client interactions for feedback, competitor analysis, proposed initiatives, upselling, etc. e. Weekly Sync up calls on projects	The daily schedule is 10:30 AM - 8 PM
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	A career in IT / Computer Science	To do MBA
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	After being in a corporate role for 17+ years, wanted to build my own business on the Services model around the knowledge and skill-set that I acquired over the years	Growth in the business sector
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	To mentally prepare oneself to move from a full-time role to a business role. There are multiple decision points in the process that need to be weighed upon	Change of place
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The opportunity to grow the business at a much larger scale.	Expansion
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Fame
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Opportunity to create a difference in the growth story of businesses from Startups to Large Corporations
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Domain Knowledge / Expertise

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	45	42
	Qualifications	Postgraduate diploma in management	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Business	Business
	Competitive exam	Common Admission Test
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The open canvas, ability to bring change and have a long-term positive impact	I am developing my technology venture. The scope for exploring my individuality while creating value for me and others simultaneously is the most exciting aspect of my entrepreneurial journey.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	So much to do, so the problem of prioritizing is an issue	Frankly speaking, I don’t dislike anything about my present occupation.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Rather than breaking it in terms of timeline, it's important to understand that every minute is effectively spent dealing with people of different profiles, backgrounds, and abilities. Managing expectations of such a diverse and heterogeneous group is what the work is all about. And this no entrance exam or professional degree can teach you. You either have an innate skill to handle people or you build it as you grow, based on your own or learned experiences.	I woke up at 4:30 AM. From 5 AM to 6:30 AM, I check my emails and work on other pending tasks. From 6:30 AM to 7:30 AM, I finish book reading. From 8 AM to 9 AM, I do play tennis. I take my meal at 10 am and start my office at 10:30 am.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become CEO of a large entity.	My Goal as a student was to become an IAS office
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The ability to create a legacy and a body of work that will leave a mark.	I completed 12.5 years in the IRS in 2017. I was always fascinated by the level of automation and technology integration happening in the Income Tax Department in India. There was a great business opportunity in tax advisory automation. I decided to launch a tech-enabled Tax Compliance Platform and started TaxBuddy.com
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	No challenges but it's only about getting focused and staying committed to the goal, so that can be a challenge for most of us.	I have never worked in the private sector. My first job was IRS and that too at the age of 22. Understanding the corporate work culture was the first learning curve that I had to manage. Moreover, I decided strategy of ‘Actions in the form of responses to challenges and opportunities.’ This created a mould that provided me with answers when I got stuck in any situation.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	This may elicit a philosophical response from a lot so would help if the question is specific and clear.	Absolutely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	You decide your destiny but with the knowledge that most things won't still be in your control	I am creating technology for enabled Tax Compliance platform in India. We are exploring the possibility of replicating the same business model in the USA.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	None	Through my business venture, I am creating a legacy for my family and future generations.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	People engagement, ability to handle and navigate ambiguity, temperamental balance, ability to handle stress, forward looking with a vision, networking	Ability to predict future opportunities and devise mechanisms to capture values from those.

Chartered Accountant

(Total participants-13)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age
	Qualifications	CA	Chartered Accountant
	Present occupation/profession	CA	Finance Head
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Honorable profession	Numbers
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Have to continuously update myself. A lot of malpractices in the profession.	Routine
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Reach the office at 11:30 AM and work till 7:30 PM. The daily schedule is a mix of audits, consultancy to clients, and compliance work depending on the day-to-day requirements	As a finance head, I am involved in the review of investment and strategic initiatives of the company. I have to review those proposals on the base of their merits and give my recommendations. Other routine tasks involve reviewing and approving different types of expenses, credit requests, etc.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Was confused, father wanted me to be an engineer but did not work.	mainly it was NDA or engineering. I was an average student whose career goal was very general, just to be successful in life.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Was told that CA is a very prestigious and lucrative profession	It was just a spontaneous decision. I was in Delhi to submit admission forms for different colleges and saw the CA institute and just filled out the form there too. CA became really serious when I passed the foundation exam and that's when it started as a career goal.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	There was a lot of financial crisis during that time	Handling disappointment after failing the exam was the biggest challenge. All credit goes to my family and I was able to navigate through this.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	yes, definitely they were. Today I remember my late-night study schedule and remind myself what I am capable of doing in life. I feel happy about it
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The sky is the limit	I keep doing short courses on the new changes happening in accounting and finance. Today I need to be aware of the new things happening in the business and how the market is embracing them. I need to ensure that our organization is ready for those changes.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	opportunity to learn new things and work in different business
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		formal qualification in finance/accounting

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	46	43
	Qualifications	CA	Chartered Accountant
	Present occupation/profession	Tax and Audit Practice	Finance professional
	Competitive exam	Chartered Accountant	ICAI
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Helping people pay taxes as per rules, partner in nation-building	Match with my skill and knowledge
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Too many compliances	Disputes and short vision of Indian professionals
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	10 AM to 7 PM, mostly at the office, traveling to different places for audits	Connect with God for 30 - 60 minutes, thanking almighty for everything, work 8-10 hours, sleep 8 hours, do anything of interest 3-4 hours, rest as I wish.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become CA	Being independent and making myself sustainable
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Liking of accounts/finance	My education stream and the course I chose at graduation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Tough and lengthy course	Time management, demotivation, distraction
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Nowadays many specialisations, International Tax, forensic audit, Litigation, etc	I leave it to God
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Respect in society, work satisfaction	Independence of what I wish to do
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Presence of mind, acquaintances with day-to-day tax changes	None

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	43	40
	Qualifications	CA	CA
	Present occupation/profession	Service in bank	Consultant
	Competitive exam	Ca exam	CA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Independent view on an annual account shared by an auditor	Working with numbers, using analytical ability
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	No	Work pressure during year-ends
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Get up at 6 and do daily activities including exercise till 8 then start the office it goes till 6 PM and then Spend time with family	My daily schedule involves logging in by 9.30 and going on office work and routine work
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	stand on my feet and feel happy inside	Till 11th there was no particular career goal, except to study hard and get good marks. But in 11^th as the study stream was chosen, the goal of CA came to mind.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	To live a good life	Work-life balance
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Increase the level of understanding	Fear of failure was the only challenge faced
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Enhance the knowledge and understanding required hard work for this required to much time spend with your career to become successful	Yes, we need to overcome challenges to achieve where we are now
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Opening job sector or start their practice	A lot of opportunities are available, depending on how far we want to go
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills	Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Computer software knowledge

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	49	44
	Qualifications	Chartered Accountant and Lawyer	CA
	Present occupation/profession	COO & CFO, A.. A.. MANAGEMENT LTD	Service
	Competitive exam	CA & Law	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	High-growth industry generating wealth for Investors	Analysis
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Less work-life balance	Low paid
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	This requires overseeing entire operations, legal, financial, and different aspects of governance-related matters of Axis AMC, one of the largest asset managers in India.	Office, handling different assignments
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a good finance professional	CA
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	This is a sunshine industry that makes a positive impact on the investor's lives	Guidance from elders
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	CA is one of the toughest courses and the curriculum is of the highest level	Lack of skilled teachers
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely. Honoured to be a CA and a lawyer	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	In finance, Mumbai offers immense opportunities. It’s the financial capital of India. There is no limit to growth if you stay committed and do the hard work	To become CFO
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It gives immense respect in the eyes of common people	Not any
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Financial skills, regulatory understanding, hard work, commitment, and nimbleness	Hard work and patience

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	65	44
	Qualifications	Chartered accountant	Chartered Accountant
	Present occupation/profession	CA practice	CFO at RATEGAIN
	Competitive exam	No	ICAI
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Secured	Numbers
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Steady growth, no business-type growth	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Morning 10 AM to 7.00 PM work with a lunch break for an hour	A lot of strategic meetings to improve top line and bottom lines with key stakeholders
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a successful CA	To excel in the field of finance
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My father saw CA as a respectable career and huge demand in the area we had belonged to	Hated science and a few relatives who became CA inspired me
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	English language and mathematics	It’s a tough course to clear and needed a lot of hard work keeping pace with the same was tough
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Absolutely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Diversify into different financial services even to own a business	I can only grow with the company, the bigger the company bigger my profile and growth opportunities
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Balanced Family life	Nope
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Sincerity and trustworthiness toward client	Nope

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12	13
	Age	42	60	57
	Qualifications	B. Com(H), Chartered Accountant	B.COM, CA, CS	CA
	Present occupation/profession	CA in Practice	CA in Practice	Service - CFO of Listed Company
	Competitive exam	CA	CA and CS	C.A
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Vast arena of opportunities and respect in Society	It is the highest degree in the financial stream having the highest level of dignity	Profession gives you the edge in Business analysis & analytics, financial proficiency, holistic approach, understanding & expertise towards business & economy. Helps in contributing to society.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Desk work	Lack of professionalism in practice	One needs to carefully select & devise the career path & progression otherwise it may lead to frustration or you will not be able to progress in your professional life as per your expectation.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It is a very demanding profession where one needs to stay constantly updated and usually, my work timings are from 10 AM to 9 PM.	Attending the office during normal working hours as you are working in the job with additional responsibility to complete your work on time	First & foremost to remain updated on the economy, business, & relevant rules & regulations. To guide the team & help them to effectively perform their duty. Interaction, deliberation in devising, executing, monitoring & reviewing along with making necessary courses of correction along with cross-functional departments for the growth of the organization to achieve the desired objective.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To excel in my chosen field	To complete CA and serve the industry	To achieve financial stability for self & family. To reach in senior position in a business organization & to contribute towards its growth & to society.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	As a student, I was good in Mathematics and problem-solving skills. Besides, the idea of a Courtroom setting and handling tax cases was quite appealing to me. Hence a mix of accounting and law profession is what I was looking for so the choice of Chartered Accountancy course came to me as a perfect blend of the two things.	self-motivation and satisfaction	The scope the profession offers for one's financial stability as well as being part of the force that positively impacts the society.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Managing my Academic requirements and practical training simultaneously	Attending the normal office as per ICAI training for three years and do the study and preparing for exams for the rest of the daily time	you need to be a smart hard worker as well as need to develop a liking for a range of subjects.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	certainly yes	YES VERY MUCH.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The sky is the limit in this profession. Every student successfully completing the CA DEGREE goes through a rigorous process and it opens the door to Careers ranging from Banking/ Consulting/ Legal / Industry etc.	Abundance of opportunity as the field is expanding very fast globally	You can start your own business or contribute to society in an impactful manner with the kind of networking you make over a period of time.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Satisfaction of achievement
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		FAST ADAPTABILITY AND LEADERSHIP QUALITY

Career Counsellor/Educationalist

(Total participants-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	28	42	36
	Qualifications	Masters in Psychology	MBA	Textile Designer
	Present occupation/profession	Career Counsellor	Educationist	Career counsellor
	Competitive exam			Yes, NIFT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	As a career counsellor, I enjoy making a positive impact by guiding individuals toward fulfilling careers, building strong relationships, and creatively solving unique challenges. I find fulfilment in witnessing clients' success stories, empowering them to overcome obstacles, and continually growing both personally and professionally in this ever-evolving field. Overall, My passion for helping others, the sense of fulfillment from guiding people toward fulfilling careers, and the opportunity for continual growth are likely some of the most satisfying aspects of my role as a career counselor.	Connect with children	Teaching is a satisfying job. Happy faces after the results are the best experience a teacher can get.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	As a career counselor, I might occasionally find it challenging to deal with clients who are resistant to change or hesitant to explore new career possibilities. Additionally, the emotional burden of witnessing students' struggles and setbacks may be another aspect that I don't particularly enjoy.	Work politics	When people come and bargain for fees.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	As a career counsellor, my daily schedule involves conducting one-on-one career counselling sessions with clients, researching and staying updated on labour market trends, job opportunities, and educational programs, and preparing and delivering workshops or presentations on career-related topics to help individuals make informed decisions about their future.	Till afternoon at work then relatively free	10 hours of dedicated work. Hardly any off. Your character defines you in front of your students. Need to be well equipped with technology as we are dealing with the Gen-Z kids. They don’t like a lot of traditional ways of teaching.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	As a student pursuing a career in psychology, my goal was to make a positive impact on people's mental well-being and contribute to the betterment of society through compassionate and effective support.	To be a successful leadership position	To be someone who changes life!
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The reason I became a career counsellor was my profound desire to assist individuals in uncovering their potential, pursuing fulfilling careers, and navigating the intricacies of the job market. My motivation lies in fostering positive change in people's lives through guidance and support, while also finding immense joy in building meaningful relationships with clients and witnessing their personal growth and success.	Did not want to ignore my child and teaching is equally competent	Lack of awareness about career choice in design after class 12th.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	During my preparation, I faced challenges in understanding complex psychological theories and concepts and managing the emotional toll of dealing with sensitive and often distressing issues during training and practical experiences.	No, me time	A lot of patience. There were times when no one turned up to you for weeks and sometimes months.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, overcoming the challenges was worth the effort, as it allowed me to gain valuable skills and knowledge, and provided the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in people's lives through my work.	Yes absolutely	Absolutely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	As a career counsellor, my career offers numerous avenues for growth and advancement. By acquiring specialized certifications, honing my expertise in emerging industries and job markets, and progressing into leadership positions within educational institutions, private counselling practices, or corporate settings, I can further enhance my professional journey.	Growth is limitless but looking for opportunities	I am still exploring!
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Personal growth	Networking
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	no

Civil Servant

(Total participants-52)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age
	Qualifications	M A	M.A, LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service	Government service
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Recognition and the associated benefits. Intellectual satisfaction. Balance between work and family.	We work in an environment where day-to-day new challenges come which provide a different way of thinking in each case.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Pay sometimes isn’t commensurate with societal recognition. Not dealing with the larger public but a small subset of the same	I feel that one should work in such a manner so that he/she is not permanently connected to a seat because learning is a process that can be achieved only when we work in different fields with different people. I have a desk job which, though a great opportunity, sometimes indicates requirements of movement for better learning and spread over my own experience.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Financial investigation on files as well as field/ judicial work in passing orders and arguing cases/	I have a desk job at the center of the top bureaucratic setup of the country which requires framing and interpretation of the rules/regulations etc. This gives me the path to use my knowledge and experience for the betterment of society.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Civil services	I wanted to become a teacher.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	As stated, it was my goal. Brought up in an environment where government service was glorified and considered the best option	In plain words, I belong to a farmer family and did not have many options to choose from as a career. Finally, I opted first to enter in Police Department and later, due to my career perspective, in the current organization. I feel that one should love his work or we can say that we should do the work which we could love. The best way to check this point, in my way, that the work which we could do without any remuneration.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Patience was tested.	I faced financial challenges, resource challenges, and guidance also.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes. Absolutely	Sometimes challenges are beyond the limits of the person but anyway, one has to face them.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It’s a platform and the jump depends upon ambition and effort	My occupation has very beautiful opportunities for growth and anyone, with his patience and hard work, can prove himself. There is the scope of participation in the meeting of top-level bureaucrats of the country and to put his views/ideas for betterment. Sometimes we get the opportunity to represent our country on an international platform.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age
	Qualifications	Chartered Accountant	Bachelor in Arts
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service (IAS)	IRS(IT)
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Diversity of job. Basic facilities and logistical support	Get an opportunity to work for Govt for the interest of the public at large.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Too much responsibility/ accountability without the commensurate decision-making power. Too much stress and work pressure	Too many rules and procedures to follow which eat up the time.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Office timings- 9 AM a 7 PM. Many meetings and phone calls. Multiple mundane and routine tasks but some very effective and important decisions/ works.	In my present profile, I take care of my regular work, guide and mentor my subordinates, troubleshoot some or other problems every day, attend court matters, administrative work, approvals, etc.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a CA	It was not clear at that time.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Timely completion of CA. More diversity of jobs, stability, and opportunity to make a difference.	Accidentally
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Extreme hard work, self-control, and keeping equanimity of mind even during intermittent failures.	Keep myself motivated to study daily for 10 hours, study material, food
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Become a subject/ Sector specialist (though it is not fully in your hands). Understand the macro systems more when you grow up the ladder	Can reach up to the level where one will be part of policy-making
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Good work-life balance
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Capacity to work hard and sacrifice your leisure for studies

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age		45
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	CA
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service	IRS
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	To be able to help others	Versatile exposure.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Low salary
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The office is demanding and requires discipline. I need to keep an eye on the clock to accomplish all my work which includes my responsibilities at home as well. The office starts at around 9:30 am. A lot of meetings and files in which decision has to be taken. I try my best to leave the office by 6:50 PM to ensure justice to my household things.	Going through lots of files and submissions provided by the taxpayers.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	It's been changing. Initially, I wanted to become a teacher as I was impressed with my teachers but after joining in University, I wanted to become an officer.	Don’t know
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The prestige that a government officer enjoys in society.	Friends were preparing for it.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	At that time availability of study material at a small station was a big challenge. I remember from my UPSC syllabus I did not have any study material on three topics.	Costly coaching
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes indeed.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotions to the highest level.	There is lots of scope to study or go on deputation and do a variety of work for the Government of India.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Self-satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience	Positive attitude

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	42	38
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	B.Tech., MA, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Govt service	Director Consumer Affairs GoI
	Competitive exam	HPPSC HPAS Exam	UPSC ESE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Variety of work	Variety of experience
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Transfers	Transfers
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Get up early tale a walk some exercises newspaper news and then breakfast and off to the office	Discipline Determination and Dedication
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Wanted to be a traveller who travels the globe	To achieve something big and great
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Family	Motivation to do something good for myself, family, society, and nation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The quality of my study may be and failure to read the mindset of the examiner	Time management
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Will grow to the rank of Administrative Secretary in the State	Multiple
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Nothing else
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	44	43
	Qualifications	B. Tech	B Tech, MA (Eco), Masters in Business and Taxation Laws
	Present occupation/profession	IAS govt service	Government (Income Tax)
	Competitive exam	Civil Services	UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Versatile, high social status, leadership position, perks and privileges, serving people, high responsibilities, power to bring change in society	Exposure, opportunity, intellectual pursuits, pride
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Very demanding mentally and physically, with a large number of stakeholders, a perception-based career, and high chances of sudden changes in position.	Unnecessarily bounded by archaic rules, nepotism, unprofessional
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Office - 10 AM to 8 PM with one hour break, work after 8 PM also till 11 PM or more if posted in field, meeting 15-20 visitors daily, taking 20-25 important calls daily, sometimes 24 hrs duty in law-and-order situation, election, floods, etc.	Interaction with the public, exploring areas of improving skills and strengthening knowledge, addressing grievances, motivating team members to excel, etc
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Getting a job for a respectable livelihood	To become a civil servant
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Attracted towards civil services after exposure to a private job after graduating from IIT. Didn’t like a corporate job.	The social status, privilege, dignity, and elevation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Uncertainty in terms of success; keeping up motivation, maintaining a level of hard work and perseverance	Numerous, from organizing time to materials, knowing what to do and what shouldn’t, getting singular attention to the goal, etc
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Without any second thought or doubt
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It’s very good in government.	Opportunities are wide open and unlimited. To specialize in policy-making, advisory, administration, and enforcement.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Opportunity to meet people from various sections of society	Feeling blessed
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Balance in personality, keeping calm, foreseeing the impacts of decision-making	leadership skills, motivating others

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	43	45
	Qualifications	B. Tech	MA LLB
	Present occupation/profession	IAS	Govt.
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Variety of work and respect	Authority
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	After retirement sudden fall in status	Restrictions by govt
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9-5 office job working on projects and files	Handling Audit paras of CAG and the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament on behalf of CBIC
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To earn more	IAS
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Respect	Opportunity to do public service
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Repeated failure	Undefined syllabus and lack of guidance
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Yes many	Apex scale of CBIC
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Ability to constantly adapt and learn

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	45	24
	Qualifications	MA Economics	Postgraduate
	Present occupation/profession	Civil Service	Civil servant
	Competitive exam	Civil Service Examination by UPSC	UPSC, Indian Economic Service Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Respect earned as a civil servant, security of employment, and satisfaction to be working directly for the country and not for just any company or individual.	Areas of work are relevant
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Low emoluments	-
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Start from home at 9 AM. Reach the office before 10 am. Review and update the daily to-do list. Meeting the boss and noting the work to be done. Check emails received. Follow-up work from subordinates. Check and correct various documents and communications. Attend meetings. Carry out directions given by the seniors. Organize various events and meetings. The day ends at an average of 7 PM. Sometimes one needs to attend to calls and e-mails at home. Sometimes one has to work on holidays also.	I am part of the policy team of the G20 India presidency. Work ranges from writing speeches, and talking points for Hon’ble FM, to preparing briefs for seniors, etc.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a civil servant	Civil servant
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Civil service is a highly respected profession in India	My graduation and post-graduation were in Economics. So, IES was the obvious choice for me.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	One major challenge is the trade-off between various choices. Other jobs were available. To forego them and immerse myself in preparation for the UPSC exam without certainty of success was the biggest challenge. The availability of the right guidance and the right study material was also a challenge. Coaching institutes were there but they were too crowded and quite apathetic.	No major challenges as books for economics are available online and offline
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	NA
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Civil service provides growth through promotions. Those who work hard and excel in their chosen areas can grow really well.	Work areas are very wide-ranging from agriculture to industry to international economic relations etc. I look forward to experiencing different work profiles
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking	Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Security and stability and predictable pattern of life
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Common sense and sincerity

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16
	Age	43	55
	Qualifications	BE(Electronics) and Communication Engineering	B. Tech, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	IRS officer	Government Service
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services Exam	IIT, CAT (IIM), Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Varied challenges in the job profile	Gives the opportunity to make a difference at a national level and play a role in nation-building
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Individualistic orientation. Little organizational support	A self-serving attitude of bureaucrats
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Morning (6 to 8)-Exercise/badminton, office (10 to 7)-various works required to be performed. Evening-family time. Sundays are generally free. Saturdays are free depending on workload.	5:00-7:00 - Thinking and working on pending high-priority work which requires high-level thinking and planning for the day. 7:00- 9:00 - Daily physical activity (tennis, walking, gym) 9:00- 18:00 - Office work and focusing on high-priority work in between. Discussions with colleagues and subordinates 18:30- 20:00- Spending time with family and friends
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Civil servant	Become a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Opportunities to work in different facets of civil services	Peers
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of suitable guidance vis-a-vis selection of optional subjects.	Vast course
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Literal movement in different types of working of the Govt of India, taxation-based opportunities in the private sector.	Many
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Nation building
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Analytical skills, Project Management skills, change management skills, transformation thinking

Identifiers	Participant Number	17	18
	Age	44	44
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	B. Tech, M. Sc.
	Present occupation/profession	Civil Servant	IRS, presently Additional Director in the Financial Intelligence Unit
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services Exam 2004	Civil Services, UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Content, variety, and ability to make a difference	Sense of public service and working for the Sovereign
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Difficult to maintain work-life balance	At times lack of dynamism in the work environment
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It's a law enforcement function that requires constant interaction with the financial world to understand the latest typologies of money laundering and take steps to counter money laundering.	In my present position, I am required to go to the office in the morning and then clear any work that has come for my approval. Then read various reports and plan what new area of work can be developed. Interact with my seniors and colleagues about what is going on and if they are facing any challenges where we can collaborate.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become an academician/historian	My career goal was to go to IIT
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Middle-class realities and parental Aspirations	Long established prestige of civil service and the exposure it provides
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Vast syllabus to be covered in a very short span of time.	Selection is tough and tricky. I had to switch my optional papers
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes, I am generally happy where I am right now
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Stable career	There are regular promotions but I can also explore other departments where I can go on deputation. Deputations are wide and varied.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Opportunity to contribute to nation-building and the country's development	After initial years, it may give leisure time to pursue side interests
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Writing skills	Government service generally does not penalize sharply for low performance. This requires oneself to be self-motivated and driven.

Identifiers	Participant Number	19	20
	Age	42	47
	Qualifications	MBBS	BE
	Present occupation/profession	Government employee	Government Service
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	Civil Service Exam 2003
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Challenging work, interaction with the public, solving their problems, investigation of crime	Public service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Difficult work-life balance	Lack of independence
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I spend approximately 10-12 hours per day at my work. My work day starts at 9:30 and ends around 9. Currently, I work as an investigator and supervisory officer in my organization.	There is no substitute for hard work
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Nothing specific. I knew I wanted to be successful	To qualify for Civil services & work for common people
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Didn’t like the previous one. I used to be an ophthalmologist in training	Work satisfaction, and public service, can change the lives of common people, and social recognition
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Getting used to the idea of writing long essays and answers in UPSC's mains	Financial constraints & proper guidance
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Can work in various capacities in the government of India or state government	One can start an NGO or consultancy, enter into politics after retirement to serve the people
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience while hearing people.	Be organized & have leadership skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	21	22
	Age	42	33
	Qualifications	Graduate (BTech)	B. Tech.
	Present occupation/profession	Govt. Service	IRPFS
	Competitive exam	Civil Services Exam	UPSC CSE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Opportunity to work on issues and policies which have society-level impact.	Social prestige, work-life balance, facilities, ability to do good for those at the bottom of the pyramid
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	1. Because of the inherent nature of the setup, the decision-making process of not consistent. Hence initiatives requiring long-term investment of time and effort do not necessarily culminate with optimum output 2. Inconsistent and negative approach to review and audit of work done by subordinates.	24-hour nature of the job, all India postings
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The daily routine spanning from 10 AM to 6 PM in the Policy wing usually includes 1. Meeting with team members to catch up on the progress of work. 2. Meetings with stakeholders and external parties as a part of feedback and view gathering. 3. Meetings and presentations to supervisors 4. Working on reports and documents 5. Data analysis and studies 6. Studying contemporary literature and publications on related issues.	The day begins with a call from the Security Control room detailing all the incidents and actions taken of previous day. Go to the office at 10. Dispose of files on e-office. Attend weekly meetings. Field visits and inspections. Need to be attentive on WhatsApp at all times. Lots of firefighting is there.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a part of the Civil Services	Police
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It was a goal since childhood	Flexibility, the charm of uniform service, perks, and infrastructure, manpower
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The nature of exams was altogether different. There was a process of unlearning and relearning involved wherein the complete approach to studying and preparing a subject required reorientation.	Voluminous syllabus, time management, constant revision required, unpredictable nature of exam
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are various opportunities wherein substantive contributions can be made in terms of effecting changes.	Can reach up to HAG scale in government
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	23	24
	Age	51	55
	Qualifications	Post Graduate	BE, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Govt Service	Indian Information Service
	Competitive exam	UPSC	CSE 1995
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Service of the society and recognition	It’s a knowledgeable-based service and you get to do something new every day. Another advantage is that postings are in state capitals or Delhi.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Service conditions	Not dislike it, but there are issues like delayed promotions at some levels. Also, it is not a typically bureaucratic set-up so not everyone can adjust to it.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Supervision and implementation of various laws and directions	The daily schedule depends on the organization one is serving. If in Prasar Bharti (DD/AIR) the working hours are long while in PIB one has to be alert 24/7. One deals with a new challenge every day which makes the job interesting.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a Civil servant	Wanted to be in Civil Services right from the beginning.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Social recognition	It was one of the choices that I had filed in Civil Services and my rank decided the allocation.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Guidance and study material	In those days the preparation material available was limited which was both a disadvantage and an advantage also. Most good coaching centres were in Delhi which was a disadvantage for students from smaller cities.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes definitely	Yes. Challenges make a person stronger.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	As I Progress in my career, need to specialize in the area of functioning, which will create more opportunities too	Mostly direct recruits would go up to DG (Addl Secy level) and some go up to Pr. DG (Special Secretary level).
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Govt service provides job security too	One mostly gets to deal with educated people.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Strong desire to serve society, people, and nation

Identifiers	Participant Number	25	26
	Age	30	50
	Qualifications	Graduation	MA, LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Government job	Government Service
	Competitive exam	HPPSC AE	Civil Services Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Satisfaction in contribution towards building a strong nation	Status, the opportunity to work in different areas
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Political influence in works	Absence of consistency in approach
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Daily after waking up think for 5 minutes Target/schedule the work and try your best to complete it.	Office from 9.30 AM to generally 7 PM, with a short lunch break of half an hour
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To implement knowledge in the best interest of society	Civil services
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Contribution towards the development of the nation	Status and career opportunity
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Time management	The volume of course content
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Experienced civil engineers are always in demand for government work and also in the private sector. As my career prolongs, my expertise in civil engineering increases day by day which motivates me toward my work	Working in diverse fields whether in service or through the private sector, Foreign assignments,
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	27	28
	Age	50
	Qualifications	Ph. D	M.Phil. ( English Literature)
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service	Indian Revenue Services
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services exam	UPSC Civil Services exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Social Recognition	The learning, birds-eye view of the world, salary, respectful workplace, chance to. Study different courses.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Monotonous works	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I wake up early in the morning around 5 AM, do some exercise, sometimes play TT, do my official work, often teach my children, read newspapers, and listen to the news on YouTube. I don't watch TV and I am not active on social media.	Working for the Government. With the help of computers, check people's income and taxes. To collect what rightfully belongs to the Government. Ask them questions. They respond online, check the truth, and give your views(order). Also, Collection of tax as they earn(TDS). In cases of heavy tax evasion, take strict action.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	It was not decided due to a lack of proper guidance.	Medical field
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I wanted to secure a career with social recognition	My marriage, my husband was preparing for it. I got the books and a chance to go to the coaching with him. He helped me.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Financial problems and lack of good guidance	Failure, anxiety, lack of exam center in my city. Costly books and coaching, without any own earnings, paying for staying for many days for Mains exam at another city.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Limited opportunities	Working with different Governments. Like UT/State Governments and different departments, various reputed organizations.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Meeting knowledgeable and successful people and seeing their real-life stories.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Discipline, sincerity, gratitude.

Identifiers	Participant Number	29	30
	Age	47	44
	Qualifications	B Tech	BSc (Horticulture), LLB, Masters in Business and Taxation Laws
	Present occupation/profession	Govt Service	Private Secretary (PS) TO MoS
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Public service	Advisory Role in policy making. Handling affairs on behalf of the Minister.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Lack of clarity in roles and objectives.	My profession is my choice so any inconvenience is there it is also part and parcel of it so it's acceptable to me.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Maintenance of Freight stock on IR	Aid and advice to Minister. It's a 24x7 duty as you have to be alerted all the time. Anything may come at any moment.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Defence Forces	Civil services was the goal.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Peer pressure	The role of civil service in the society is very important and challenging. It motivated me to seek for it
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much guidance	Initial failures in examination. Two attempts of UPSC and 2 attempts of state civil service failed. There was pressure to get a job. No one was there to guide me. Preparation required fluency in English but I was from vernacular Marathi language student.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Yes. All my efforts were fructified with positive results in UPSC.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Not much	With promotions, I have various opportunities to work in civil service at higher levels.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	You can help others with your connection so that their lives become smooth.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	IT

Identifiers	Participant Number	31	32
	Age	48	42
	Qualifications	Mechanical Engineer, MBA	BE
	Present occupation/profession	Government officer	Govt job
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	A chance to make a difference to the larger population, huge responsibility, status, perks, opportunities	Challenge
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	More free-riders on sincere people, less money	Work stress
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	In my younger years, in the field from morning 8 AM to evening 6 PM; in HQ from morning 10 am to evening 6:30 PM; on call at all times, and 4 inspections scheduled per month, which could be on weekends and at the nights too	Liaison with media and public representatives
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To distinguish myself and to excel in whatever I did. Did not have a specific career in mind.	Civil services
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I was good in science and maths and cleared the relevant competitive exams.	Lucrative career
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Extreme competition, long hours of work required	Study material
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, though I wish I had a deeper interest in a specific area	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are great opportunities for growth up to the level of Secretary to Govt of India	Good opportunity
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Organisational support
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Networking skills and general awareness help

Identifiers	Participant Number	33	34
	Age	46
	Qualifications	B. Sc	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Commissioner of Income Tax	IRS
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Constant knowledge upgradation and exposure	Intellectually challenging, important to the nation
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Frequent change of places particularly when the kids are in 9th or 11th	Extreme Target-based and complete officer responsibility with low pay
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Consistent work and focused approach and discipline	Scrutinizing tax returns, passing orders, collecting demands
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To get any job and stand on my own feet	Civil services
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I was in always Awe of bureaucracy. It was my dream.	That work should have a purpose
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Since I haven’t taken any coaching, I had to gather the information from many books which was a tedious task.	Lack of guidance as no known person was in civil service, criticism from others that I could not make it
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Definitely	Yeah
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are immense opportunities both in the service and outside.	Hierarchical growth in the department, deputations to other government organizations
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction	Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	The department is a family and provides social security	Job permanency gives financial stability
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Legal interpretation skills	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Discipline to keep working with targets that keep changing

Identifiers	Participant Number	35	36
	Age	47	34
	Qualifications	PG	B. Sc in Biotechnology, M. Sc in Animal Biotechnology
	Present occupation/profession	Government servant	Civil servant
	Competitive exam	CSE 2003, CSIR-NET/JRF	UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Service to Nation	Dynamic nature of work, job security, the opportunity to work with the public at large, recognition in society
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Experiments by the Government without proper research	Sequestered and hierarchical nature of work across various verticals
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Morning time with family, Office, Evening sports	The daily schedule varies from posting to posting. In my last posting, our typical work day would start at 10 in the morning and the work would involve providing replies on behalf of the government to queries from other offices, writ petitions files in courts by the general public against certain laws, working on improving the general efficiency of administration, etc. The day would typically end at 7 PM, and sometimes later depending on workload.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	A good respected job	Archaeologist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It is a premier Government job in India	When I learned of a career in civil service, it appealed to me because of the opportunity to work for the government and be part of this huge machinery that deals with the day-to-day running of the country. I was also attracted to the idea of working with and for people.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Usual challenges of discipline, management of studies, and general life	I had the full support of my family who did not pressure me into finding a job immediately. So, I had an entire year dedicated to preparation. I did not attend any coaching classes so at times, I missed sharing my experience and fears of not clearing with others who were going through a similar journey.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Undoubtedly. In my case, I wouldn't even compare them with the rewards I've gained after clearing.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Multiple engagements with domestic and international tax and other areas of service to humanity	There is a great scope for doing different kinds of work in this line of work and the learning curve is very steep, as long as one is keen and willing. Not simply in terms of career, but I believe this leads to holistic growth of the personal and the professional.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Service to Nation	As this is my first and only job, I am biased in my opinion. But I think it has given me the confidence and freedom to express myself, develop into the person that I am today, and afforded me opportunities to see the world through a different lens all of which cannot be measured in tangential units. u
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience and perseverance; Ability to be non-biased; ability to accept variant points of view	Yes. The ability to listen to what others are saying even if you don't agree with them, and to be responsive is a necessary skill in my opinion.

Identifiers	Participant Number	37	38
	Age	35	54
	Qualifications	B.A.	Commerce graduate and professional degrees
	Present occupation/profession	Government service	Working with GOI
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services Exam	UPSC Civil Services Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It provides the opportunity to serve the nation at the cutting-edge level. It also gives you a lot of respect in the society.	Social Status, diversity of job
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The pay not being commensurate with the work. Also, performance not being linked to pay	Lack of decision-making
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It is a mix of working on the assessment of taxes, policy implementation, routine works like disposal of taxpayers' applications regarding rectification, other requests, etc.	Top A. beginning the day with gratitude B. Exercises, Yoga, and meditation C. Attending to matters relating to guidance, support, and others Prioritization of daily work (critical and noncritical) 2. Attending to statutory works having deadlines 3. Understanding the requirements of the team 4. Holding meetings for deliberation allowing space for the free flow of views 5. Reading Attending to all communication in the form of email or messages
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Becoming an IAS officer	Be a teacher
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My father inspired me to opt for civil services, as he believed it is the best means to serve the nation	Every profession has an opportunity to learn and impart knowledge.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Had to stay alone in Delhi, and the preparation was very long, tiring, and extremely difficult	Persistence, passion for a longer time frame, consistency, and hard work,
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Can become a member of important agencies such as CBDT, CEC, CVC, ED, etc.	Knowledge acquisition, skill set development, and sharing of knowledge
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	39	40
	Age	30	50
	Qualifications	B.Sc. (Hons) Physics, M. A. Philosophy	LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Indian Revenue Service	Civil Servant
	Competitive exam	Civil services exam	UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The satisfaction that my work has ramifications on the government and society at large and is not just limited to the augmentation of the profit motive of a corporate enterprise	Dynamism, and creativity
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Intense accountability for every decision made	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The daily schedule depends on the kind of postings one gets. Some are more demanding; rest is relatively relaxed. A typical day of an IRS officer involves meeting people, meeting officers, getting the routine work done like reporting, etc, and spending time on relatively longer-term tasks like completion of assessment work before the end of the financial year.	Need to look at documents, decipher and analyze the documents and their veracity
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To qualify civil services examination	Civil servant
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I come from a family of bureaucrats so joining civil services was a natural choice. While growing up, I was sure that I didn't want to be tied down to a private sector company or private setup. I wanted to do something that has a wider impact and involves interaction with society which is possible only in the government.	Status, prestige, and the ability to help people
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Consistent efforts despite adversities and remaining unruffled with failures without losing hope	Not much
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely. They helped develop a different mettle in me	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Higher and more diverse positions in the government of India	Promotions, Deputations in other government sectors, private opportunities as well
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Actualization
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Ability to adapt to change

Identifiers	Participant Number	41	42
	Age	36
	Qualifications	PhD in English Literature	B TECH
	Present occupation/profession	Civil Servant	Government
	Competitive exam	Assistant Labour Commissioner	UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Exposure and Discretion	Variety
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Too rigid and low-paid	Absence of Merit-based promotions
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Morning 10 office, busy schedule in public dealings and meetings physical and video conferences, and letter dictations.	It’s a mix of administrative and investigative skills
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	IAS	Getting into Civil service
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Could not qualify	Family and social environment
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Revision of notes, fear of failure,	Absence of proper guidance
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Labour laws formation at a higher level. Exposure in ILO	Limited
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking is an opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Got to work for the labour class. At an individual level, got an opportunity to decide	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Skill of patient reading and good memory, good Hindi	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	43	44
	Age	45	35
	Qualifications	B Sc	MSC (Geology)
	Present occupation/profession	Government	IFS
	Competitive exam	UPSC Civil Services	UPSC Civil Services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Security and help for society	Service to Nature and Wildlife
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Non
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Going to the office and doing the scheduled work. And help to needy people what I Can	Field and office job
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Being a good Administrator	Same
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Society	Passion
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Money	Lack of time
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Nothing	Time-bound promotion
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	I'm fully satisfied with my work and my life.	Close to nature
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Love for nature, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Faith in God

Identifiers	Participant Number	45	46
	Age	43	50
	Qualifications	Graduate	BSc. LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Government services	Government Service
	Competitive exam	UPSC	UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Exposure and job security	Impact on society.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Unequal opportunities in transfer and posting.	Curb on independent thinking.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9.30 to 6 office hours.	9:30 AM to 6 PM office time. Office time can be extended and may require weekends if the situation arises.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become an IAS officer	Government Service
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I belong to a middle-class family. I am attracted to Civil services because of the job security and different work opportunities.	Satisfied
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	I prepared from Bhopal. In Bhopal, there were very few coaching institutes. What to read, how to read, and how to write. was the big challenge without proper guidance.	Lack of guidance and mentoring support made you rely on your perseverance and determination.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Endless opportunities	Not much
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Exposure.	NA
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Knowledge of Accounts	Adherence to limitation.

Identifiers	Participant Number	47	48
	Age	24	32
	Qualifications	B.SC (Zoology, botany and geology)	B. Tech (Computer Science and engineering
	Present occupation/profession	ACIT(UT) 2021 batch.	Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax
	Competitive exam	UPSC (CSE)	UPSC(CSE)
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Nicest job to have with ample opportunity for self-growth ensuring work-life balance and quality work to perform.	Social recognition
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Not about the profession but people's perception of the job. Although for sincere seekers it doesn't matter for ordinary intellectual minds perception is important.	Technical nature of the job
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9-6 is an ordinary job profile but opportunities are ample in the field of investigation, foreign attachments, etc	Interpretation of tax statutes
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Civil servant.	I wanted to be an engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Opportunity to serve and the prestige it offers.	Upgradation in service
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	As I hail from J&K and prepared during the Abrogation of Art 370 internet was a major issue and it was scrapped. Also, I hail from the border area ( ARNIA SECTOR ) so distance and lack of connectivity were also an issue.	Mental strength
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, they were. They always motivated me that if your challenges are big your goal would be much bigger and the bliss you get when you reach there is ultimate. Moreover, the journey metamorphosed me into a different individual.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	We get a lot of time for self-growth which can be utilized accordingly for the development of hidden capabilities inside.	Deputations to other departments/ Ministries
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Time to introspect on one's life and growth and put sincere efforts for spiritual upliftment.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	49	50
	Age	39	48
	Qualifications	BA LLB(Hons)	M. Sc
	Present occupation/profession	Government Servant (Additional Commissioner Income tax)	Govt service
	Competitive exam	UPSC	UPSC APFC Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It has elements of both administration/ execution and policy making in it. Contribute to the development of this country	Respect, Status, wider impact
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Lack of coherent procedures and workflow
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My daily schedule requires me to reach the office in the morning hours and attend to my work. I get free in the evening or late depending upon the type of posting, phases of work, and of course efficiency 😊	9 to 6 five working days. Additionally working on many Saturdays as well
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To take UPSC	Doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	By seeing the respect and power government servant commands to bring any kind of change.	Status and respect for the job
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Living far from home, managing my food, stress about whether my efforts would yield results.	Financial, lack of preparation facilities except in big cities. Lack of counseling on career options
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Can go for deputations in various ministries, can go for skill enhancement like studying abroad, and can work with the Policymaking wing to bring the difference I want.	Deputation to other departments on a higher scale
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Access to different new learnings
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Stress management and Human Resources management

Identifiers	Participant Number	51	52
	Age	47	46
	Qualifications	M.Sc.	BE
	Present occupation/profession	Govt. Service	RPFC
	Competitive exam	Yes	Yes. UPSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Nature of work	Ability to service EPF members
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Untimely transfers anywhere in India	Its constraints
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Facilitating financial social security benefits to the workers registered with our department. Sensitizing employers towards the needs of workers. Administrative work related to staff posted in my office.	EPF claim approval, exceptional credit approval, administrative approvals for expenditure, quasi-judicial inquiry, etc
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a good civil servant	To become a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Status, Service-oriented work, and job security	I have always been interested in politics and welfare administration
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	It is time-consuming and laborious	Accessibility to facilities, money, language, etc
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Reasonable opportunities	There are no direct opportunities for growth
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Ability to create problems and then solve them
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Managerial and administrative skills	People management and Jugaad

Consultant

(Total participants-14)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	49	44
	Qualifications	M.A	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Senior Advisor (Transfer Pricing), Deloitte India	HR professional at ONGC
	Competitive exam		ONGC entrance exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The diversity of legal and business issues that are analyzed and discussed	Beautiful work culture. we work hard and care for each other
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing in particular	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Since I advise MNEs, I don't have a fixed schedule. On a typical day, I advise one or two MNEs on their transfer pricing strategy, how to mitigate TP risks and comply with the Indian law. At times, I train young TP professionals, speak at seminars, and write on TP issues.	After sending my child to school I finish my household chores and then I’m off to work. After an interesting day at work, I go for pistol shooting practice in the evening i.e. before leaving for work. I spend quality time with my family and wind up the day with some news and my favourite series of the season.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Civil Services	Lawyer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	After I took VRS from the Indian Revenue Service, I thought of trying my hand at consultancy and advisory services in the area of my expertise - transfer pricing.	It was more of a journey that brought me here. than a choice
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	While the preparation for the Civil Services was a tough act, no special preparation was required to start consulting.	Personal issues
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Certainly!	Definitely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The sky is the limit	Abundant
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		A lot of positivity in life and enthusiasm. It also gives me great colleagues who care for each other and do not fiercely compete against each other
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Power of convincing	Specific job-related skill sets but most importantly the right attitude

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	54	31
	Qualifications	BE, LLB	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Advisor TP	Consulting
	Competitive exam	LLB	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Every day you scratch your mind with a new issue	Solving problems
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	You need to continuously update yourself	Lack of WFH
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	You work on the preparation of transfer, pricing, and documentation to demonstrate adherence to arm’s length price. To update yourself, you spend at least one hour a day reading the latest decisions.	Go to the office. Take client briefings and work as per requirements. End of the day close the meeting and then leave the office.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	My goals kept on changing as I kept on achieving them. Initially, it was to be a successful engineer, then to become a class one officer, and then to become an IAS. I finally ended up getting into the IRS. Then I set a goal of getting back into the private sector.	To be an archaeologist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Need to face more challenges and also to secure yourself financially.	Passion for Impact
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	There were no challenges per se. It was more of consistent hard work.	NA
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes. In the long run.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	You can keep challenging yourself. The career can go on as long as you want it. It will keep your mind healthy and that could be a precursor to a healthy body.	Can continue to management or move horizontally into the industry
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Physical fitness

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	34	64
	Qualifications	MBA	B.Sc., LLB, CISA
	Present occupation/profession	Govt. Consulting	Consultant post-retirement.
	Competitive exam	No	Before retirement Yes. BSRB Probationary Officers
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Pay Benefits	Varied experience of Industries, people, financing tools, and Cultures.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Routine Clerical work of Govt Department, no work-life balance	Transfers across the country.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	From 10.30 AM to 9 PM routine clerical work at the Government department, due to a lack of staff	My previous occupation, involved handling of basic banking needs of people in rural and semi-urban areas. It progressed to understanding the financing methodologies of various sectors and Industries. Later mastered the field of International Trade Finance. Moving to the top management level required astute administrative skills along with delivering on varied Banking needs of people and Industry. Now Consultant with GOI in Anti Money Laundering and Prevention of terror financing based upon my previous experience.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Management consulting	Any domain that involved interaction with people from different walks of life the preferred were Banking, Administrative services, or Medical.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Finance	Serving the poor in rural areas, contributing to the development process of the nation. High social respect and people interaction.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	NA	Stiff competition.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	NA	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Negligible	An experience in finance and Banking
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Exposure across the Nation's financial and social development ecosystem
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	40	72
	Qualifications	CA	PhD, Advanced PG Diploma, MSc (Military Science), MMS,
	Present occupation/profession	CA	Retired Army Officer, Senior Consultant Ansals, Professor and Head of MBA two colleges, Registered College, Director MBA
	Competitive exam	Chartered Accountant	Yes, the Defence Services Staff College Exam.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	High technical knowledge	Loved soldiering, teaching, administering, and heading an educational institution
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Relatively Slow decision-making by government officials	Why is age specified for serving in educational institutions?
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Regular updating knowledge	Rise early, 05:30, 06:00-06:45 Physical Exercises/ Yoga 45 mins, Own Time plus Breakfast 07:00-08:30 AM Office/ Classes 08:45- 13:45 Lunch 14:00-14:45. Rest 15:00-1600, Games/ recreation 16:00-17:30, Own Time work/ assignments18:00-20:00. Dinner 20:15- 21:00. Relax and communicate. 22:00-Sleep
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Chartered accountant	Join the Army
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Wish of my father	Follow family tradition, respect, and honour in the job and face challenges
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Money	Studied hard and did well, prepared physically to meet standards
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	High	Learn to teach, decided Management Training
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Networking	Further made me a better citizen, and a better human being and
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Dare in life is not restricted to Army alone

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	32	48
	Qualifications	MBA	MBA, IIM, Ahmedabad
	Present occupation/profession	Job	Management Consultant
	Competitive exam	No	For MBA, CAT Exam, For earlier career in railways, SCRA exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Meeting new people.	Variety, Chance to interact with top people in various sectors, Chance to work in different countries, lots of intellectual excitement, Different scenarios, and problems to solve every time, Chance to work with really talented people
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Long working hours	In professional consulting firms, the work-life balance is skewed. Generally, as you rise the ladder in Management Consulting, there is less and less time for family and increased work pressure. Consulting is a service industry, in case your client is bad, life can become stressful.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I start my work at 9 AM and it goes till 7/ 8 PM. Post that I go on a walk have my dinner around 9:30 and sleep around 11 PM.	Management consulting usually has 12 to 16-hour work days. Generally, multiple projects are going on at the same time and it is like juggling many balls and not allowing any to fall. It requires good communication and time management skills. Also important to have a calm demeanour as consulting is about dealing with people. Need to be well-informed about what is going on, in general.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Join an IIM for an MBA	Actually not much of a goal, rather than doing well at each stage. Doing the best I could to my potential was the goal. Took whatever opportunities were given to me by life and put my best into it.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	People skills and Project management	Not a very well-thought-out option. Did not imagine that I would end up in Management Consulting. Started with Government service in India. Somewhere had a desire to do an MBA, got through to IIM, Ahmedabad, and then switched over to consulting. I would say luck and good fortune played a big role in how my career was shaped. What I would credit myself for is that I did not turn away an opportunity whenever it knocked on my door.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	NA	Again here I would say, I have been lucky. Generally got through most exams on my first attempt. Whenever I prepared, I did so with focus, gave the exam to the best of my abilities...and luckily got through.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	NA	Totally worth the effort. From a very humble background, I am now at a stage where I look back and feel grateful for all that I have done and the experiences that I have had.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	NA	Consulting opportunities are always plenty if you have the right skill set and background. In the consulting space, some people have become CEOs / MDs of big companies. Some have started their businesses.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Travel to different places in the world
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Communication skills, Ability to work in an unstructured environment, Ability to be not daunted by the unknown

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	58	27
	Qualifications	Post Graduate	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Freelance consulting in Mining	Consultant
	Competitive exam	ISM entrance exam all India basis for taking admission 40 yrs. ago	Cleared CAT to give interviews for MBA colleges
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It gave me wide exposure all around the world.	I get to interact with new people who have varied experiences and I get to work in problem-solving areas for different companies and different industries as well, the exposure I get as I travel to different countries for projects is very enriching. Being a consultant is a prestigious job in the corporate world and it comes with a lot of perks, like high-paying salary, etc.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	The stress and challenges related to client-oriented projects can be taxing. As a consultant, you are expected to work for more than 10-12 hours a day and sometimes on the weekend. The travel part can get hectic after a while once you have families and responsibilities.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	As a freelancer, I don't have any compulsion of daily schedule of work. I work at my convenience. What I see is to complete the task on the scheduled date.	We start with preparing for the meetings with the client during the day/week. This includes brainstorming, deck creation, and Project management work. After that, we have a standup, which can be both internal and external. That helps align different teams/stakeholders involved in the project in one direction. Then we work on the decided plan for the day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I was looking to get a good job in PSU/Govt.	I wanted to be a CA/Lawyer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Primarily because of a confirmed job and a good career.	MBA seemed more oriented to me as I would rather study with my friends in a college than study alone in my home as I am competitive and I wanted to use that to my advantage. Also, after my MBA, there are a lot of areas I could explore for my career. CA options are limited in my opinion.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much as I was studying based on getting a complete understanding of the subject.	CAT tests are different from the prep and education we get in schools and colleges. MBA interviews need a different preparation.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes.	Yes 100%. My post-graduation helped elevate me to the next level. My growth was exponentially increased and I had the opportunity to choose much better roles post-MBA
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It's very wide. Now commercial coal mining is open for all so lot a more opportunities are there in my career.	I am working to achieve the partner track. So, after consultant, I would become a manager and eventually a partner in a Big-4.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Gave me international exposure
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	None

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	35	40+
	Qualifications	MBA	Masters
	Present occupation/profession	Consultant	Consulting/Advisory.
	Competitive exam	CAT	CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Learning and new tasks make me strive to be more creative, smart, and innovative	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Tight and busy schedule	NA
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	7:00 - Wake up 7:15-8:15 - fresh brush and bathe 8:15-8:45 - dress up n breakfast 8:45 - leave office 9:00-11:00 - work on daily work deliverables 11:00-13:00 - work on project priorities with client 13:00-13:30 - lunch 13:30-15:30 - research work 15:30-17:30 - meetings and read project learning material 15:30-18:00 - snacks n tea 18:00-19:30 - complete leftover work 19:30-20:00 - personal work 20:00 - leave from office 20:15-21:00 - fresh up and dinner 21:00-22:00 - family time n chit chat with friends 22:00-22:30 - mobile time 22:30- sleep time	Sifting through data - numerical and information to make up opinions that will be used to make decisions.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a civil servant	Aerospace Engineering
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Money n hunger for knowledge	Aerospace engineering options were limited, so I switched to mechanical engineering, and later went for management for better prospects.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Time management and not to waste much time on mobile	Time availability, prep material choice.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, definitely	I think you meant to know if the results were worth the effort. Too early to say. Challenges were easy as compared to the efforts needed for CAT.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Become a partner in a large firm and then senior advisor to the Government	Keep working and look for leadership positions. This applies to every career.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	NA
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Hunger to learn, commitment, and determination	Patience.

Company Secretary

(Total participants-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	36	37
	Qualifications	Company Secretary from ICSI	CS
	Present occupation/profession	Corporate legal advisor	Snr Mgr- Finance and Audits
	Competitive exam	ICSI conducted exams as per the program
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Keep a check on various compliances and legal roles in the business industry	I like handling the finance nitty-gritty
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Awareness about time compliances and consequences of the same	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It's promising work not just 9-5 work and by the time you get home we are free for family time	I handle the audit of my organization
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To pursue CS as a career	To join army
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The profile and working modification	Nothing specific as such
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	It's pretty tough to clear the examination until you are fully aware of the concept	The study was too hard and you had no breaks during the exams
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The sky is the only limit	To learn advanced Excel and data science
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Time Management
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Solution-oriented zeal to perform the work

Designer

(Total participants-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	29	35	32
	Qualifications	B. Design (NIFT)	B. Des, M.F.A. (Textile Design)	MBA Fashion
	Present occupation/profession	Business Manager (E-commerce)	Textile designer	Fashion designer
	Competitive exam	NIFT, NID, AIEEE	Nil	NIFT Entrance, All India rank 13
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Business Numbers, Brand Scaling, Brand Building & Positioning	Experiment with new techniques and ideas	I feel lucky my profession matches my passion
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Retail and Export segment is highly unorganized in terms of culture and environment	Nil	Nothing I can think of
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Data Analysis, Business Numbers, Event Planning, Marketing, Stock analysis, Planning & Merchandising	To come up with new ideas to create more opportunities for the weavers and artisans. Making designs according to the market taste not just for our interest. To do market research.	I run a boutique on an appointment basis completely so I can take out time for my family. Being a family-oriented woman, I always wanted a profession that allows me to spend time with my family. I can't imagine myself in a 9-5 job
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?		Designer	Doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I am currently pursuing a career that in turn is giving me the experience to start my own label	My interest.	It was not planned honestly. After my graduation (B.com hons) from Hansraj College DU, I was offered a job at Deloitte (Big 4) but I wanted to study further. So, I chose fashion as a subject and took the entrance after preparing for 2 months. My backup was Pearl Academy.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	access to the right guidance	Lack of practical knowledge.	I was nervous and tensed. Being a commerce student fashion was a new field for me to enter into
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No, in the end, if we succeed it is fruitful but if we do not it is all dark so taking pride in challenges should not be there. The only motive should be challenges should not stop us. One should keep making efforts consistently. Something or other good someday will come your way	Yes	Yes. I reassured myself that I can do it despite so many challenges
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	E-commerce is booming and brands need to fasten their pace to the online segments, fashion colleges should educate students on an online segment and provide internship opportunities to take a full view of the segment for career growth.	Textile designing, Marketing	I can always upscale my fashion label to a bigger level, an international level, the sky is the limit
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security	Networking, Impactful position, Time to explore areas of interest	Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	it gives me learning and knowledge for my own label,	Nil	You get to keep yourself updated and who doesn’t want to look their best?
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organise and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	business numbers and execution should be on tips	Nil	Consistency is the key. Don’t get disheartened in the initial phase of the business. Good things take time.

Doctor

(Total participants-24)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	40	46
	Qualifications	MBBS MD (pathology)	MDS
	Present occupation/profession	Specialist pathology	Dental surgeon
	Competitive exam	All India PG entrance	A.I.P.G (All India postgraduate examination) 2001-2002
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Diagnostic work and microscopy	Personal interaction with patients and instant gratification and satisfaction after alleviating patients’ pain and cosmetic results
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing in particular	Occupational hazards like cervical arthritis, backache
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It's more diagnostic work that guides the clinicians for accurate treatment. the work involves microscopy in particular where we see the disease at a cellular level	My clinical duties include not only rendering treatment but also managing the clinic, staff, and welfare of staff and patients. It's like entrepreneurship.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Probably an engineer	To be a good clinician with continuing education to keep pace with ever-changing techniques and advancement
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Parent decision	Truly speaking being in a family of doctors I aspired to be like my father and brother
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Insecurity of not making it, competition for limited seats, and yes peer pressure a lot as to what others were heading onto	Theoretical and clinical application. It's like a combination of doctor and engineer= dentist
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, it made the efforts more rewarding	Professionally yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Huge, super specialization, DM courses, fellowship, hospital administration, lab accreditation courses, etc	Since dentistry involves ever-changing techniques and advancements, so one needs to update with the current trends keeping the basic knowledge brushed up
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Keep grounded to see various socio-economical strata of people
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	A keen eye and aptitude to read through books

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	63	45
	Qualifications	Multitasking (1) MBBS (2) MD (3) Jyotish Alankar (4) NCMF NSE (5) Film Producer (6) Author (7) Social Enterprise	Post Graduation
	Present occupation/profession	Organizational Education for Doctors	Physical Therapist
	Competitive exam	MBBS MD Delhi University	All India Entrance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Health service (Belong to the family of doctors)	Helping people
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Of late what hurts is poor Doctor-Patient Relationships	Long hours, very physical
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Though not in active medical practice, healthcare professionals should only be done with a spirit of service. Personal life takes a back seat. Only those with passion and dedication to health should join this profession	My daily schedule is providing physical therapy consultation and treatment to patients.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Service First	As a student, I was undecided regarding my career goals.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Both parents are selfless doctors	Did not give much thought, went with whatever came my way.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Competitive exams are both art and skill. Science students are poor at art and need to practice art	Tough competition
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes. I feel more satisfied in teaching doctors than treating patients as I cater to more patients indirectly	It has been a rewarding experience so far.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Medical Professionals are ever-advancing. The future belongs to the Prevention, holistic, and integration of various systems of healthcare	Not much other than being an entrepreneur.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		You get to learn about your own body.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Interest in physical activities
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	23	43
	Qualifications	Master of Physiotherapy student	M. Ch
	Present occupation/profession	Physiotherapist	Additional Professor
	Competitive exam		Medical entrance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Treating patients’ pain	Opportunity to serve the society
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Lack of awareness among the general population	The unscrupulous attitude of some colleagues
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Daily reading, revising basics repetitively, focused listening, and getting updated about recent advances in the respective field.	Patient care, surgery, OPD
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Be a good doctor	To be a surgeon
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Novel profession	I wanted this from the very age when I hardly understood things
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of English pronunciation and vocabulary	Patents belonging to an unrelated background, school curriculum not sufficient, need for coaching
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	As a professor at a reputed university	Growth, both personal and professional
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Highest level of satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage	Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Dedication, mental strength, and emotional stability	Perseverance

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	59	37
	Qualifications	DPT	BDS MDS (PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY)
	Present occupation/profession	Practicing Physiotherapist	Doctor
	Competitive exam	Entrance exam to physiotherapy school	NEET MDS Entrance Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	I can help people	The satisfaction of relieving physical pains, bringing smiles and joy in patients' lives, the love and the blessings
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Doesn't give much money	Nothing as such
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	At least an 8-hour day working with patients	For my NEET MDS exam, my schedule was to get up at 7 in the morning, and leave the house by 8. used to go to National Medical Library near AIIMS, Delhi. Get in there by 9:30. Whole day studying there, leaving from there at around 6:30 in the evening, reaching home around 8, post-dinner again back to books, stretching the study hours as much as possible. At times till 2. Sleep. Repeating the same routine the next morning.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To set up my practice	To be a "Doctor"
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Was very impressed with the importance of physiotherapy at the age of 10.	Childhood wish from within
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much, was a good student and my parents supported me	Competitive exams are a challenge in itself especially as a general category candidate, the resources are limited, so at times it takes a bit of more time, hard work, blood n sweat
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Definitely yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To expand my clinic and employ physiotherapists	I can explore various aspects of dentistry as an exclusive paediatric dentist or otherwise also as a general practitioner, there is a huge arena of possibilities to explore with a lot of good scope for growth on the professional front
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security an opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Impactful position, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		The unconditional love you get from kids when they are relieved from all the dental issues that come with
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Compassion

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	41	37
	Qualifications	MBBS, MD, DNB PDCC	MDS
	Present occupation/profession	Pathologist	Prosthodontist and Oral Implantologist
	Competitive exam	No	NEET
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Self-reliance, satisfying	To bring a smile to others' faces and relieve them from pain
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Professional bias	Radiation hazards
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Usually 10 to 4	Yoga, mantra Jaap, treating patients and then looking after kids so, Swadhyay and sleep
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a Doctor	To serve humanity
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	No night shift, time flexibility	To serve the society
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Long working hours	At that time just to concentrate on my studies and no other work.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Super specialization	To open and expand your clinic. You can further pursue acupuncture also
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Time for family	Relaxed life
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		To learn at every step

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	37	32
	Qualifications	MBBS, MD PATHOLOGY	MBBS, MS (GENERAL SURGERY), M Ch (CTVS)
	Present occupation/profession	Pathologist	Doctor (CTVS Surgeon)
	Competitive exam	Delhi PMT (2004), Delhi PG entrance (2010)	NEET
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Intellectually challenging	Treating ailing people and my passion for surgery
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Demanding working hours	Extremely stressful profession
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9 hours of sitting in front of a microscope in a corporate hospital laboratory gave me a lot of challenges that I got to solve every day. I give out diagnoses to all patients by looking at their tissue samples under a microscope. It's very interesting and makes me feel good after I solve a difficult case. Knowing that my work contributes to patient well-being is very satisfying. Giving out the correct diagnosis leads the clinician in the right direction so that he can offer the right treatment to the patient.	CTVS is a highly hectic branch with long working hours. Sometimes more than 12 hours a day. Being an emergency branch sometimes I have to even work overnight.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I accidentally fell into medicine after school. I didn't know in schooltime, what I really wanted to do in life.	To become a cardiac surgeon
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I cleared the pre-medical test at the state level in the first shot. I didn't want to leave it since it's very difficult to get in. Although I never had the strongest desire to pursue medicine in the first place. But I love it now. The feeling when you see somebody getting relieved of their troubles is very gratifying.	While doing MBBS got interested in general surgery so pursued the same and in post-graduation got inclined towards CTVS as a super speciality.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Too many hours of studies required every day, and waking up nights in a row is what was very disturbing. It doesn't help in the long run, it might spoil your health if you don't balance it right. Performing yoga Aasan every day can take care of it.	Required a lot of dedication with long duty hours and a vast syllabus to study. Most importantly to pursue all 3 degrees had to be away from home for almost 15 years.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes definitely	Definitely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The world is your playground. You can join a corporate sector hospital or, a govt sector hospital as a teaching faculty (difficult in today's time to get into a govt hospital ) or open your own lab. But there is competition everywhere.	CTVS as a branch has a long learning curve but with time will get to do surgeries independently and learn new skills
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Being a doctor in itself is very rewarding in the society. You can help so many people in so many ways.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Sincerity and dedication	Soft skills to flourish as a surgeon

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	38	38
	Qualifications	MBBS, DCP, DNB	MBBS, MS, MRCOG, ECFMG USA, ESGO certified Europe, Fellowship in gynaecological oncology Tata Medical Canter, Kolkata
	Present occupation/profession	Doctor, Pathologist	Consultant, Gynaecological oncology
	Competitive exam	Medical entrance exam	Jharkhand medical entrance for MBBS, All India for PG entrance, USA ECFMG entrance, RCOG for MRCOG certification. Interview at TMC Kolkata for fellowship, European entrance for ESGO certification
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Reducing suffering of people from sickness & diseases. As a pathologist providing a diagnosis which is the first step in the management of a patient's condition	Service to humanity, free-lancing ability
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The role of pathology is undermined, though it is the most crucial step in treatment as we don't have much interaction with patients	Increasing distrust of patients, long hours, suboptimal pay
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Examining slides prepared from patients' samples (blood, urine, fluids), performing needle aspiration from swellings & examining the slides prepared, taking sections from swellings/ organs removed from patients, and examining the slides prepared	Leaving for the hospital in the morning, attending outdoor patients, conducting indoor rounds, and performing surgeries. Freelancing in the evenings
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a Doctor	Becoming a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Seeing my parents work as doctors	My grandfather's and parents' dream
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	A lot of hard work & dedication are required to clear the entrance examination	Very competitive exam so had to prepare a lot. Physics and chemistry need practice and practice. Preparing for 12th boards and competition simultaneously can become challenging
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Going for super specialization in any of the subjects like molecular pathology or any system of the body like neurology (related to the nervous system) is the need of the hour as these days so many advances are coming but again requires a lot of hard work and dedication.	Further technical training, short-term courses for the same
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Moral satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Ability to perform long-duration physical activities

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16
	Age	26	32
	Qualifications	Graduate MBBS	MBBS, MD (Radiation Oncology), DM (Medical Oncology)
	Present occupation/profession	Doctor	Doctor
	Competitive exam	Neet UG, NEET, PG	NEET SS
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Unpredictability	Being useful to people suffering from cancer
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Lack of personal time	People doing violence against doctors; no doctor can cause harm to his/her patient
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I wake up at 7, go to work, and keep running the entire day-keeping files up to date, attaching reports, checking compliance, and following orders. My day normally ends around 9 PM (average). We generally work till around 2-3 AM on some days apart from emergencies. Emergency is of 24-48 hours	I get up at 7; get ready and have breakfast; reach the hospital by 8; do the ward rounds and start OPD once OPD finishes do the hard work; By 7 PM I reach home; spend time with family; daily read for at least 1 hr and then sleep around 12
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Being a doctor	It was my dream to become a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I saw my parents doing this	I used to see my parents and they were my role models
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Immense competition and stress	Coming from a small city; I did not get proper teachers in 11th and 12^th classes; hence dropped a year; moved to Kota for preparations and finally secured a seat in MBBS
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Kind of	Definitely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Research	My goal is to become a well-learned doctor
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Everything is covered
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Fast decision making	Dedication and sympathy towards patients

Identifiers	Participant Number	17	18
	Age	58	58
	Qualifications	MBBS, MS, M. Ch	MBBS, MS Surgery, M. Ch Urology
	Present occupation/profession	Plastic surgeon	Medical Teacher and Practitioner
	Competitive exam	University Entrance and exit tests	CPMT (entrance exam for MBBS), Super specialty entrance exam for M. Ch
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Highly skill-based, Challenging, needs constant skill and knowledge updating, satisfying, positively impacting lives	Patient’s satisfaction
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Uncertain and often long working hours, poor public awareness, having to compete with charlatans and quacks	A minor percentage of patients argue in case of undesired results
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9 AM to 2 PM - operating theatre (major surgeries) 2 PM to 4 PM - procedure room(minor surgeries & procedures) 4 PM-7 PM - Consultation time 7 PM -8 PM - hospital rounds/paperwork/administrative work 15 min working lunch sometime between 1.30 PM-2.30 PM. Can get called for Emergency trauma cases any time of day (so will upset your schedule ) or night (so your sleep schedule is disrupted, as have a full routine the next day anyway) But good training from a reputable department/institute would have prepared you for this.	Morning 8-12 Medical College OPD, Operation and Teaching, 1-3 PM OPD at Clinic, 3 to 7 operations, sometimes up to 10-11, normally 8-9 PM evening walk
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Skill myself and be recognized as one of the best in my field	Doctor and good earnings
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Medicine was my second love after electronics	Social Reputation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Choosing goals early and Keeping the focus on the goal	Physics was difficult for a medical student and extended hours for studies
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Many	Improve clientele by networking
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Insight into the changing mores of society	Good remuneration compared to other professions
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Professional skills take to heights but maintaining requires ethics and honesty

Identifiers	Participant Number	19	20
	Age	40	28
	Qualifications	Optometrist	Neuro Physiotherapist
	Present occupation/profession	Optometrist	Research fellow
	Competitive exam	Multiple	Neet, college entrance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Patient interaction	It helps in completing the holistic rehabilitation of patients suffering from chronic and physical ailments.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Working hours	Lack of awareness among the people of India
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It’s very intensive. day begins at 9.00 am and finishes around 8.00 pm	It depends on the schedule and sector you are working
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Cardiologist	To crack MBBS
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Did not want to pay donations	When I met someone with the same career, she educated and motivated me to follow the same path
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Long hours	Cost of coaching and expensive books.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes, truly
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Doctorates	There are many options and growth if you are determined and hard-working.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Teach students
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Assessment and evaluation of patients

Identifiers	Participant Number	21	22
	Age	56	52
	Qualifications	MBBS, PGDPHM	MBBS DGO
	Present occupation/profession	Government service	Doctor
	Competitive exam		NEET PG
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Serving others	Serving Humanity
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Hectic	Long hours thankless people and political interference
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Early rising, going for service, no private practice	No fixed working hours. The day starts at around 5-5:30 am till approx. 10/11 pm
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Doctor	To be a doctor and serve the ailing humanity
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Respectable job	Father was a doctor. Had seen him working and saw the people blessing him with the satisfaction that he got from his job
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Long study hours	No tuition centers at that time so I had to prepare myself. Exam patterns were changing so no guidance available.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Advancement of knowledge	Many new options are available now you can go for research, academics, further higher studies
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Networking	None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills	Linguistic intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Empathy

Identifiers	Participant Number	23	24
	Age	30	28
	Qualifications	M.D. Radiodiagnosis	MBBS
	Present occupation/profession	Assistant Professor in Radiology	Junior resident Medicine
	Competitive exam	NEET PG	INI-CET
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Using the opportunity to serve patients. I work in a government hospital and cater to the radiology service needs of cancer patients.	Job satisfaction
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Frankly, nothing. It is a limited emergency branch of medicine and hence helps me to strike a balance between my personal and professional life.	Long working hours
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I help in the diagnosis of cancer in patients using USG, X-ray, CT, MRI, and mammography. I help acquire tissue through a minor procedure called biopsy from tumors that are not accessible to oncologists externally. I also perform ablation of small tumors using radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation.	Patient care comes foremost. Might have to sacrifice a part of my personal life
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To learn and get training from a premier institute in India.	Doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My interest in the subject of diagnosing diseases.	Job satisfaction and social respect
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Radiology is a high-end branch and usually requires a very good score in NEET to take this subject up. Long studying hours, mental toughness, and steady composure while taking the entrance exam were a must.	Highly competitive exams
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I want to learn new emerging techniques in interventional radiology that can help treat tumors without performing surgeries. Like trans arterial chemoembolization in liver cancer.	Super specialization, International Health
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Working close to cancer patients makes me constantly aware of how unpredictable life is and makes me feel grateful for all that I have.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Ability to identify patterns

Economist

(Total participants-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	34	26	32
	Qualifications	M. Phil in Economics	MA economics	Post Graduation in Economics
	Present occupation/profession	Government servant	Civil servant	Government Service
	Competitive exam	Indian Economic Service	Indian economic service	UPSC Indian Economic Service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Interdisciplinary work in policy space and good exposure	I get to see the functioning of govt up close	It is a continuation of my post-graduation subject and its practical application.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Too much hierarchy	The rigid structure is too bulky to move.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Remain abreast of policy developments, and data analysis and prepare policy inputs	I work with the g20 secretariat. So, I get to work on various areas of international economic diplomacy. In simple words, on policies and issues of global relevance, what is India's stance? A step ahead would be to look at what are other countries' stances. Further, given the stance of the nation, what should India do? We do a lot of member country analysis and other things.	My typical day starts with prioritizing the work to be done along with suggestive policy or operational suggestions. Upon which, I take directions, advice, and guidance from senior Colleagues.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be an academician or a civil servant	Economist	Be an astrophysicist.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Personal ambition to join civil service and counselling by seniors	To work for the country, to contribute better as an individual.	It was a mix of fate and opportunities.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Limited time and a huge syllabus	There was a fear of loss that was looming	Lack of proper guidance about preparation and career opportunities.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yet	Yes definitely, it is the culmination of the challenges that made me who I am today.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Continuous reading and upskilling, focused training	We can go higher rung into the bureaucracy to work with policy. Something close to a secretary in the executive parlance.	There is always room to grow, at the same time, it is individual-specific.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Exposure
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	nothing specific

Engineer

(Total participants-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	43
	Qualifications	Bachelor of Engineering
	Present occupation/profession	Service
	Competitive exam	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It gives me a lot of job satisfaction
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	I'm occupied for extended hours
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The daily schedule is a mix of on-field activities and desk work. The on-field job involves monitoring and maintaining systems and equipment, off-field involves planning and scheduling of activities including resource planning.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Always wanted to work as an Engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It was always the one I dreamt of
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Had to opt for an apprentice position in spite of having an experience of one year, after completing I was working on a low profile
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I can lead the function
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It gives me a respectable life
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Technical skills

Financial Analyst

(Total participants-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	47	63
	Qualifications	MBA	BE (Civil), M.Com, M.Sc.
	Present occupation/profession	Financial Analyst	Property Valuer
	Competitive exam	CFA	IBBI Exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It’s interesting, ever-evolving, and amazingly remunerative.	Variety
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	It’s very time-consuming. One needs to balance personal and professional life.	Shortage of trained staff
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Get up at 8:15. I do my work from 9 AM to 3:30 PM during share market hours. I also do some research for 3-4 hrs after-market hours.	The valuation work is divided into five parts- (1) reading the documents, plans (2) homework for supportive data for valuation (3) an actual visit to the property and recording the facts (4) writing a report (5) billing and collecting the fees. Hence, it’s a combination of outdoor and indoor work along with accounting work as one has to pay GST and other taxes, follow up for recovery of fees, etc.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Secure my future and have enough savings for my kids.	To be a good engineering contractor.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Finance is a subject of my interest.	The construction field changed in the year 2000. It became capitalistic rather than technical. The entry of nontechnical people having money spoiled the market. The corruption in Government or private contracts was another issue. I was looking for another field where I would be away from these issues.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	I was too old to start the second innings of my professional life. At times, it was exhausting.	Recognition in the market, a good Guru who can guide you selflessly
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Off course.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I think I am done with any new adventures now.	Infinite. If you can work with synergy, then there is a global scope.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		You see the world. There are many things that as a contractor or promoter-builder, I could not explore, which I could with this profession. I could see the combination of one branch of engineering with other branches and the combination of engineering with law and finance. Calculating the worth of anything is a challenge
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		(1)Working in synergy (2)noting the observations - there is a great difference between looking at a thing and observation (3)memory (4) habit of reading

Government Job

(Total participants-11)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	31	34
	Qualifications	B. Sc	B Tech
	Present occupation/profession	Govt job	Government
	Competitive exam	SSC, CGL	SSC CGL
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Different accounting platform	Domain
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing, I guess	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I'm able to manage my home, kid, job, and life. That's what everybody wants to balance.	Reaching the office by 9:30 am, scheduling the daily tasks in hand, and ensuring to complete them on time.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Honestly speaking, I just to be financially independent when I was in college and wanted to become an IPS when in school	Good job.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I opt it in want to be an IT inspector which fulfilled both goals of my career and landed up in the accounts department	Security
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Years that you're giving and lack of that confidence that u can clear it or not	Regular practice is required
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	For sure	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Great.	Learning more and more about various aspects of taxation
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Give my confidence and self-belief
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Just be updated with the events happening around the world

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	34	42
	Qualifications	BE	B Sc
	Present occupation/profession	Junior clerk	Service
	Competitive exam	There was no competitive exam just an entrance exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Good	Work
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	NA	Unachievable targets
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9-6 office	Time table
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Become creative worker	Became Engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Cultural activity	Present job
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Nothing	No
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Good
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Don't no	Yes
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction	Power and Prestige
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Get good environment	Satisfaction
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Love for nature	Debating and articulatory skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Nothing	Work for Brotherhood

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	43	33
	Qualifications	B Tech	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Govt Service	Central government
	Competitive exam	Open Market competition exam	SSC CGL
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Public dealing	It gives satisfaction that I am contributing to nation-building
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Stiff market competition	It has verily less public interaction
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Normally it is a fixed-hours job with a lot of exposure to various activities	The day starts with walking running and leisure time with parents then the office, taking the kid to the playground in the evening, then some household work, and repeat
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	IAS officer	Become a civil servant
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I wanted an office job instead of field related job	Lack of financial support…being the eldest son I had to earn for the family
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	There was no detailed information about the pattern of the exam paper.	The only challenge was to bind myself to schedule and earn part-time
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	We can go up to Regional head or National head	They are fixed
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It gives me the opportunity to be in contact with persons of various fields
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Sincerity and dedication towards the job

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	32	35
	Qualifications	MA History	B. Sc
	Present occupation/profession	Government job	Central Government
	Competitive exam	Staff Selection Commission	SSCCGL 2014
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	file work	We can work for a different kind of Ministry.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Unnecessary discussion between working hours	We don't have our organization to work.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Do early morning yoga or play some games after that start working	Account-related work...
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Assistant Commissioner	Govt. Job
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I belonged to the lower middle class	Noting
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not getting proper guidance	Nothing
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	further promotion	Only grade pay will be increased.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Nothing
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Creativity, Interest in physical activities
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		No

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10	11
	Age	56	47	42
	Qualifications	M.A.	BE, MBA	BSc
	Present occupation/profession	Govt Officer	Director	Defence
	Competitive exam	Staff Selection Commission	NA	UPSC (NDA)
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Giving one great financial security.	New opportunities every day, informed decision-making	It is pride in a nation that drives you
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Politics in office	Long working hours	Transfers
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	In the morning, I try to reach the office on time and work according to the road map. The best period is the first half of the day when I try to complete my hard tasks and then the second half complete my half-done work.	Day starts early, punctual to work, reviews and business meetings during the day	We mostly work from 6-5
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To secure a respectable govt job	Wanted to be part of an IT firm	To be pilot
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Plain luck.	Passion and willingness to do more	Passion for flying
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much. used to read a lot which helped me in my preparation for exams	Difficult to understand current laws for business	Preparing for UPSC along with CBSE preparation was difficult
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Certainly	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Not much at the age of 56	There is no dearth of opportunities, hard work is the key	Higher promotions
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Give respect and independence in life	Satisfaction to provide jobs	The feeling of divine profession
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Be focused on your goal. time will certainly come.	Technical and Management skills	Flying skills

Inspector

(Total participants-8)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	32	36
	Qualifications	M. Sc. (Mathematics)	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Income Tax Inspector	Inspector of Income tax
	Competitive exam	SSC CGL	ITO exam 2015
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Prestigious Job with a good salary. As a part of the income tax department, we collect taxes that help in the development of the nation.	Being a part of the revenue department (Direct taxes) makes it worthwhile.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Sometimes late-night stay is required to complete the time barring work.	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	There are 2 types of work, field and non-filed. In non-field, you have to do file work from 10 to 6. In the field, you have to go for inquiries about tax evasion and also take part in survey and search operations.	To crack the CGL exam one needs to study 6-8 hours daily.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	My career goal was to get selected for a job that is prestigious in society.	Inspector of income tax
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	There are 2 reasons. First, it is a prestigious job which gives fame in society. Second, there is a zone allotted at the start of the job like Delhi, so you can stay close to your home.	This job gives financial stability, prestige, etc
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	As a Hindi medium student, it is difficult to score good marks in an English paper, as there are 200 questions to attempt in 2 hours.	One needs to be good at English grammar and comprehensive quantitative and mathematical aptitude and current affairs as well.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, with regular practice, I have scored good marks.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There is a good promotional hierarchy.	Many sections in the department require different sets of skills to execute the assignments.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Power and Prestige	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		No

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	44	27
	Qualifications	MSc BEd	B.Tech
	Present occupation/profession	INSPECTOR IN CISF	Sub Inspector at BSF
	Competitive exam	SSC (CPO) SI Exam	SSC CPO
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	JOB SECURITY & STATUS	Thrill, Adventure, lots of opportunities
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Posting/transfer	Isolation
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My office starts from 930- 1800 hrs with a lunch break between 1300- 1430.	Post in charge of border outposts.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Be an army officer	Wanted to join Airforce
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Job security & it's nearly equivalent to my goal	The obsession with getting a government job
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Good guidance	High level of competition
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	After so much experience I got a second career in the private sector.	Various departmental exam opportunities, various deputations in prestigious gov departments like CBI, IB, NIA, SPG, NSG Etc.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Explore my interest
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	35	35
	Qualifications	BA	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Serving	Government job
	Competitive exam	SSC	Staff Selection Commission
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Work of nature	work
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Always depends on the officers	Even if they say, “What do you like least about your job?” they’re not looking for a long story about how awful the job or company is. Believe it or not, you should answer this interview question with a positive tone. An overly negative answer will make the hiring manager worry that you’re difficult to please and may cause them to look to other job seekers for their position.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	No office time fix.	Typically, recruiters ask to explain your daily routine in English for interviews to get an in-depth view of what your life looks like outside work. An individual's daily routine reflects their attitude towards life, their sense of organization and discipline, their personal traits, and how they manage their physical and mental health. All these factors are necessary to determine whether an individual is the right choice for a specific role, which may involve busy days or require considerable mental agility. This question gauges your overall quality of life and your ability to handle personal questions in a professional manner.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	SSC	Many students seek to master a specific industry specialization or skill to help differentiate them from their competitors. Specific skills can make a student potentially more desirable to an employer, as they offer great value along with their education.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Not qualified for UKPSC	To begin with, recruiters always want to hire a candidate who will be sticking around for a longer time.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	English Subject related	Without a clear plan of attack, students struggle to know exactly what to do. This can result in procrastination, feelings of anxiousness, and a lack of preparation which may lead to underperformance on the big day.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Focus on weak Subject	The human spirit has an unwavering ability to overcome, as seen in these challenge quotes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Very Good, I will be promoted to PSO.	Career growth is definitely a journey. To achieve it, you’ll need to cultivate a sense of purpose and seize opportunities as they arise. That said, you might be wondering what career growth might look like in your own life.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction	Impactful position
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Not responsible as a signatory	You have an identity, not just a name. Image credit.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Continue study	Teamwork skills are an important asset to any employee who is part of an organization or who works with other individuals in their daily operations.

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	32	40
	Qualifications	B. Tech	BA
	Present occupation/profession	Inspector of Income-tax	Income Tax Department
	Competitive exam	SSC-CGL	Combined Graduate Level Exam is conducted by Staff Selection Commission
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Work profile is very dynamic here which helps in enriching one's knowledge and skills.	I am satisfied with the job.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Since the work profile is very dynamic and due to regular transfers, sometimes we don't get sufficient time to master the basics of any field	Complicated rules and regulations.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	As taxman, we have to scrutinize the income details of individuals, etc	Five days a week. 9:30 AM to 6: 00 PM
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Initial I was inclined towards the private sector	To serve the nation.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Job Stability and desire to work for the backbone of the economy i.e. Income-tax	Social recognition of Income Tax Department.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	This exam required very high speed for solving problems and maintaining calmness of mind	not being able to consistent
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes after coming to this job, it feels like all the challenges were worth the effort.	yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are regular promotions	promotional aspects
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Debating and articulatory skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Industry Job

(Total Participant-19)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	48	43
	Qualifications	B.E (Electronics); Masters in Business Law and Taxation	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Manufacturing Industry	Strategy & Sales/Ed tech
	Competitive exam	No	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Ability to create an impact	Exciting and fulfilling
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Sometimes things do not move as fast as required	Frustration
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Leave for work around 8:30, work with different types of people, manage sudden, urgent, and unplanned work, manage different viewpoints, complete tasks despite hurdles, and reach home around 9 PM.	Wake up by 6:30 and work by 9:30. Through the day at work and remotely managing home. Home by 6:30. Homework & chat with kids. Dinner, a bit of TV or work. Sleep by 12.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be able to positively impact society through my profession; to become excellent in whatever I do.	Fashion designer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The current company is creating history for India by venturing into a new manufacturing area and providing job opportunities to many people	Stability & intellectual stimulation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Many - access to information, resources, money, to name a few	Convincing people I have transferable skills
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Many	Independent Consultant
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Technical knowledge

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	25	44
	Qualifications	BA Journalism / Media and Mass Communication	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Brand Marketing Manager at PUMA India	Managing Director
	Competitive exam	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The dynamic nature. Adaptive work culture and learn new things at work by upskilling yourself.	Creating employment and entrepreneurship
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Pay Parity as compared to Technology/ Product Development. In marketing, you get paid less unless you have a considerable amount of experience / a notable education degree	Nothing.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The dynamic work nature means handling end-to-end projects daily. 1. Ideation of project/marketing campaigns 2. Brand and Product Campaign 3. Handling different stakeholders within the company 4. Working with synergy with stakeholders 5. Handling and working with other brands like Netflix, Boat, Noise, etc and managing partnerships	There’s no fixed schedule. Always available at work.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To get into Travel Journalism and become a news anchor and work at notable publications.	To be an entrepreneur
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It’s the same, honestly, Marketing covers all the different kinds of things.	Serving the industry
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Competition and fewer opportunities	Consistency
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely. Challenges make it interesting to reach and sustain your potential	Yea
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Becoming a senior manager and then moving to the Marketing Director level	NA
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Creative Expression
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Leadership Skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	48	33
	Qualifications	Master in Commerce	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Assistant Account	Salaried
	Competitive exam	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Smooth working conditions	Working for Tata company
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Long sitting works	Office Politics
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Schedule of work	Multiple things happening simultaneously with each pulling you in a different direction but the focus is most important
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Discipline	Medical Doctor / Armed Forces
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Update information	Financial requirements
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Hard work	Didn't have resources like books or coaching, couldn't apply for multiple exams since had no money to buy even application forms, didn't clear the exam
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Can't say
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Update yourself	You can become the CEO of a company someday
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Systemic yourself
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	48	50
	Qualifications	PGP in Management	B Tech, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Service	COO
	Competitive exam	CAT	IIT, UPSC SCRA, CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Interesting job, variety, global outlook	Opportunity to create; Think about an idea and lead it to execution
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Bureaucracy	One has to dive into the details... pun intended... I love it
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I travel 50% of the time in a month. The rest of the time, I meet customers, colleagues, stakeholders	1- Review past results 2- Team meetings to hear ground issues/realties and set out the plan for the day/week/month 3- Address customer/client needs 4- Ideate long-term ideas/opportunities 5- Align resources and deliverables to goals 6- Read, discuss, and assimilate evolving market trends
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Nothing specific	Work in an intellectually challenging environment; Tackle the unknowns and set the trend
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	By serendipity. Got placed in this sector as part of the MBA program	Opportunity to make a difference; Seemingly unaddressed opportunity
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Anxiety about the future	Consistency; Mastering the concepts
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Yes absolutely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Learn more and contribute more at a global level	Scaling up the product/service; Opportunity to make it an industry standard
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Create something for the future
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Empathy, bias for action	Resilience, Commercial savviness

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	46	39
	Qualifications	MBA	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Service in Sales & Marketing	Senior engineering manager
	Competitive exam	Selected through internal examination and interview process of organization	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It keeps you engaged in your role through continuous learning, regular training and development are integral parts job	It gives a sense of accomplishment to help people and businesses to grow
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Touring commitments during family exigencies	At times work-life balance is lost
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Daily routine starts with monthly/yearly KRS update, depending on day schedule, team meeting, meeting with boss & HO for routine updates, Customer business review, problem resolution of supply chain & replenishment, remittance planning & follow-ups, etc.	Driving critical business agenda, bringing people together to make things happen, monitoring and taking corrective action to stay on track to deliver the business goals, finding out the risks, the impact of the risk, taking actions to mitigate if there are any risks, tactical n strategic planning, helping team members in removing any work impediments, etc
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Career goal is not clear during student time, aspires to do management	To be a Research and Development leader
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	MBA attracts during graduation time, skills & competencies match sales and marketing job	Detailed analysis of my strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities that I had in the organization
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Keeping myself motivated & maintaining a daily study schedule was a big challenge then	Finding the right opportunity, preparing myself for the desired role especially upskilling in technology
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes, irrespective of whether we get the desired role or not learning and upskilling help to unlock the potential within and give lots of confidence
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Career growth is available within the organization/change of organization for a better role	Being a business leader
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Time to explore areas of interest	Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Work-life balance
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Interpersonal & team management skills are a must in this field	Emotional intelligence, core skills required in the role

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	44	42
	Qualifications	BE	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Service	Marketing
	Competitive exam	No	CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Daily challenges	Sense of achievement, good workplace, remuneration and perks
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Uncertainty	Work can get monotonous
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Normally, it's a routine activity but one has to find ways to optimise processes	Designing marketing campaigns, event management
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Get a job in a good company	Excel in the field of marketing
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Curiosity and urge to earn money to be self-sufficient	A lot of guidance from teachers, seniors, research on opportunities in the market
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Fewer opportunities available in the market, also a lack of good luck	Availability of required information, high pressure, public speaking
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, though luck has an important role, hard efforts, and perseverance can overcome hurdles	Absolutely. It prepares you for the challenges ahead
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Electric mobility solutions for sustainability	Marketing is a core area for any company. So, there are always going to be opportunities in this area
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Job satisfaction, challenges
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Time management, multi-tasking, leadership, team management

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	31	23
	Qualifications	MBA	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Service	Corporate job
	Competitive exam	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Work-life balance	Money
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Fewer learning opportunities	Culture
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Problem identification, Product designing, Product development, Product Launch, Coordinating between different teams - legal, compliance, Operations, risk management, IT, etc.	24/7 Trident in mind and work around 9-12 hours a day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To work as a public health administrator	Own a design label
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Opportunity at hand	Safe money income
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of proper guidance	Lack of Patience
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	I guess
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Product lead/ Product head/business head	More money and a higher position
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Effective communication	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16
	Age		35
	Qualifications	Engineer, MBA	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Industry Job	Management
	Competitive exam		CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Engagement with all kinds of people	Salary
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Situated in Remote locations	Corporate Politics
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It is an 8 AM to 5 PM job which generally stretches to 7 pm	Meetings, plan, facilitate, execute
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Leader in Industry	Software Engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It is a challenging role	Career development
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much	Managing job with cat preparation
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Not applicable as I did not face any challenges	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Now I am working as GM. I can grow to VP.	C-level exposure in the organization
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Colony life
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Digital skill set	Chat GPT

Identifiers	Participant Number	17	18	19
	Age	42	44	45
	Qualifications	BE, MBA	MBA	BPT, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Service	Marketing Director	Healthcare professional
	Competitive exam	No	MBA Entrance Exam for Symbiosis	CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Involved in strategic decision-making	I like the dynamic nature of my job. With AI and advanced data analytics, the marketing scene is an exciting space to be in.	Nobel profession
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	6-day week	Nothing really	Thankless job
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9:30 to 6 PM in the office, 40 min travel in both directions.	I start with assigning tasks to my team and responding to the tasks they have been assigned with deadlines. The tasks include social media posts, creating videos, planning events, email drip campaigns, and content. I have meetings with my team to discuss strategies related to content, lead generation, and sales support.	Hospital administration, hospital rounds, solving patient issues
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Be in top management	I wanted to perform to the best of my abilities. I also wanted to get into a prestigious professional college, one of the top ones in India.	To become a successful professional
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Love working in an Indian company	When I was in college, getting into a good MBA institute ensured a good-paying job and tremendous growth opportunities. These factors guided me in choosing my present career.	After seeing my seniors
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Social Distraction	I needed to work within a certain budget. So I couldn't join the top-notch MBA coaching institutes. I relied on second-hand books for MBA preparation. Only after clearing my written exam, I joined Career Launcher for help with GD and interview preparations.	I was running my clinic also so time was much less
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Definitely!	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Can rise to CEO	I can grow to head a business in a few years. So the opportunities are tremendous.	To become the CEO of a hospital healthcare chain
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		You get to work with a lot of bright and intelligent people which I value a lot
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		EQ more than IQ	Decision-making ability

Investment Advisor

(Total Participant-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	47
	Qualifications	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Job - Support people Investing through the Stock Market and Grow Wealth
	Competitive exam	NISM
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Stock market Investments
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	24x7 hours job but interesting
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Be with clients and keep delivering and learning
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Was not clear. Just wanted to have a great career
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My choice for stock market Investments
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Daily new learning. Dynamic Industry
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Endless. This career will always remain and grow
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It is one service you just do not sell to clients. You are a consumer of your services. Double benefit
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Open to learning every moment

IT Professional

(Total Participant-17)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	25	43
	Qualifications	BTech in Information Technology	B.E, PGDM
	Present occupation/profession	Software Engineer	IT Professional
	Competitive exam	IIT JEE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Very often we come across new challenges, which require brainstorming and hence use my analytical thinking. I have ownership of the tasks I do, giving me a sense of responsibility. I get to interact with people from different cultural and religious backgrounds from all over the world, which is fascinating. Working with a good team is always a plus and obviously good pay.	Various, but most importantly Engineering entrance exams including JEE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Sometimes work can be monotonous, where you have to do things that you have done previously. It’s time-sensitive and always bound by deadlines. So that can be hectic.	Nothing. I would have answered differently 7-8 years back. Off late, started to appreciate each job that helps to keep the ball rolling.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	In office- the day normally starts at around 10:30 -11. It starts with a team call where you tell about your yesterday's tasks and what you are planning to do today followed by any blockers. Then it’s a mix of personal time, where I can focus on my daily goals and meetings with the stakeholders. In between there are a couple of breaks for team lunch followed by a good walk, and then a snacking break in the evening. We chit-chat about anything and everything during these. I end my day around 7:30-8:00. In the morning I like to hit the gym and in the evening watch television or read something.	Typically, 8 hrs work time can be divided into the following major categories - Business delivery - 2 hours - Coaching and Mentoring - 2.5 hours - Hiring activities - 2 hours - Reporting - 0.5 hours - Engineering / Problem solving - 0.5 hours - Self-improvement/learning/reflection - 0.5 hours
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	As a kid, I always wanted to become a cricketer. But when I was in class 8th, I realized that my dream was just a dream and at the same time developed an interest in computers. So wanted to do something that involved coding.	To become a scientist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My liking towards coding/ computers was a result of the problem-solving involved in the process. We used to get some puzzles or similar problems and we had to code the solution. I was pretty good at it so liked it. Apart from that didn’t think about a lot of career options.	It was more of riding the current than anything else. Initially, I wasn't very satisfied with my job. Later on, I learned to find things that I find interesting in my job and focus on those.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	While preparing for the entrance exam, I had to study daily, there was so much to cover in the two years, that if I missed even a week, it would become impossible to read present and past topics simultaneously. Apart from that, I had to manage my time well and limit the things I loved to do. I didn’t stop them though. So studying every day without a break would be the biggest challenge.	Keeping yourself motivated is a major thing. Sometimes, it used to get very difficult, however, if you can visualize your target, it helps immensely.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	A big yes! Today I am independent, love what I do, and also have the means to fulfill all my desires.	Of course!
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	There are promotions. You become more responsible, then you will become responsible for other’s growth as well. Also, technology is ever-evolving so will continue to learn more and more about my space.	The sky is the only limit. However, growth and success definitions also change over time. In my view, everyone should keep doing some soul-searching every now and then and define what career growth means for them.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Not a skill set, but if you are curious and open to learning new things, you can become successful.	Coaching skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	36	25
	Qualifications	MBA	MSc. Cyber Security
	Present occupation/profession	IT professional	Cyber Security Consultant
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Salary	Finding and fixing global vulnerabilities and securing cyber architectures for large firms
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Workload	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	NA	Working on hacking web applications, APIs, networks, and mobile applications and further providing remediations for critical vulnerabilities and exploits
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Entrepreneurship	To be a hacker and develop a product that is used the world over for security
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Better career prospects	My goals align with my courses and career path
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Time management	It can be tedious sometimes, but is worth it
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Definitely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	NA	To be leading cyber security practices globally, creating newer tech to help provide solutions to improve overall cyber security posture and technology architecture
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Project management

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	26	45
	Qualifications	MTech in computer science	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Software Developer	IT professional
	Competitive exam		OJEE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	To be able to constantly learn new skills and technologies	New learning areas & part of being new technologies
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Sometimes there might be no work-life balance	Sometimes lots of work assignments
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The day usually starts at 9 and we have a couple of meetings to discuss what has been done the day before and what we would like to achieve today. Post that we solve a couple of bugs in the software if any or work on new features that the client has requested followed by lunch. And some post-lunch meetings and we continue to work on our dedicated tasks. The day usually ends at 6 PM.	Plan daily work meetings- call with larger bring a big picture
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I wanted to be part of a prestigious corporate environment where I am challenged every day to do something out of my comfort zone	Top-notch C level professional
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The immense career opportunities in the field of computer programming	The natural skill of understanding IT technologies
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	There are so many technologies and so much to learn. Every company works on a different technology stack (programming language, hardware, or software) and is trying to solve a new problem. So you have to be really good at problem-solving and also be really good with at least one programming language.	Proper training on new IT systems & absence of people looking at a career with a combination of technology plus business
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	You can become an architect who drives technical topics, you can be an engineering manager also can be a technical consultant or a product manager	The new endeavour, the Multicultural environment
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	A lot of incentives to focus on your mental and physical health like wellness reimbursements and free full body health checkups every year.	None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Leadership skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	30	48
	Qualifications	Post Graduation (MCA)	Bachelor in Engineering, Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
	Present occupation/profession	Data Analyst	Information Technology Professional
	Competitive exam	No, through college campus interviews	None
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Flexible work environment and cross-training	Innovating and developing Information Technology features and services for various sectors of financial services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Internal work politics could be a barrier to my growth.	None
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Being a working mom, the schedule stays pretty tight but apart from that- I have a work in US work timings (12-9 PM) While WFH - Wake up at 8 -> household chores / look after baby’s whole day needs-> sit for office around 11:30 till 9 PM -> back to household chores	Run a daily stand-up for the day’s plan with the people reporting to me, then appear in my manager’s stand-up to provide status and discuss any important issues, managing the different IT systems I own.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I was very much inclined towards fashion. Fashion designer or stylist.	Civil Services (IAS in particular)
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	After my grad, and post-grad in Computer Applications I landed in my present IT career.	Personal situation to earn early to support family
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Prepared for various mock interviews and had to learn various computer-related languages other than course.	Access to Information as the Internet wasn't there much, financial situation
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes definitely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To lead a team on different subprojects	More knowledgeable, managers have bigger teams
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	24	26
	Qualifications	Bachelors	BTech, MS
	Present occupation/profession	Software Engineer	Software Engineer
	Competitive exam		Jee mains + advance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The work, the culture, and the pay.	Good pay, good work
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Difficult to maintain work-life balance	I don't really dislike anything about my profession.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I get up at 7, go to the gym, and then head to work. I come back from work at around 7 PM and then do some personal studies	My work schedule starts from 11:30 AM and then mostly goes on till late at night.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Software Development	I didn't have any clear goal.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I like Engineering	If you're mediocre, being a software engineer probably has more perks in comparison to other career options in general.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	A vast breadth of knowledge to learn	Had to go away from home to study, stressed to do well.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Upward growth in the corporate world	You can become a Software Engineering manager, or team leader, or lead multiple teams parallelly, and have your own startup if you are passionate enough.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Puzzle-solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	32	42
	Qualifications	BArch (IITR) MBA (SPJIMR)	MBA IT Systems
	Present occupation/profession	Design lead for Data centres	IT Professional
	Competitive exam	IIT JEE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Creativity Meeting new people	Flexibility and opportunity to work with the latest technology
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Earning disparity with respect to HIB professionals in the early stages	Micromanagement by managers
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Design proposals meetings design reviews site visits 3d models and modelling, movies	To maintain the operational stability and availability of applications
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Clear	Engineer or a doctor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	To study at IIT with intelligent students around	Opportunity to innovate
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Constantly on toes for prep, only one focus	Job scarcity during IT slowdown
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yup	Yes. Success was sweeter.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Build your own business, teach - I do part-time career options workshops for arch students	Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Travel, meet new people	Keeping pace with technology
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Visual aesthetics, Software, macro, and micro thinking	Ability to handle failure

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	43	44
	Qualifications	B.E. (Mech), PGDBA (Finance)	MCA
	Present occupation/profession	IT product and software services	Software Engineer
	Competitive exam	No	Yes
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It gives me a chance to interact with people from different cultures and regions all over the world. Secondly, it gives me a good feeling about implementing something good for mankind and learning new technologies every now and then	Continuous Learning
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Odd office hours but you get used to it after some time	Fast-changing technology pertains to more unpredictability in terms of growth.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	7.00 AM - wake up 7.30 AM -8 AM - morning walk 8 AM -8.30 AM - Tea & newspaper 8.30 am -9.30 AM - Get ready for office & Breakfast 10.30 AM - 7 PM - office 8 PM-11 AM - Family time	Project delivery and people management.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Get an excellent salary package by getting into the top 50 software services companies in India	I wanted to pursue medicine. I wasn’t even aware of the software industry.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Excellent salary package and foreign travel opportunities	Job market.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Being From a non-IT engineering degree, getting assignments and case studies given during training completed in a given time during training but at the end of the day, it is all teamwork so why so afraid?	It was a big switch. Changing my mind from health science to technologies like C, C++, and Java was quite challenging.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes definitely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Vouching for CEO of small-scale IT companies in coming years	There are great opportunities for sure but we have to prove ourselves in every step. by learning new skills and domain knowledge
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	During the COVID-19 period, our team delivered a critical vaccine and drug testing platform within 4 months and made that available for top US pharma companies for the actual work.	Self-independence
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Negotiation and collaboration skills	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16
	Age		44
	Qualifications	Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology	Masters in Economics
	Present occupation/profession	Sr. Software Engineering Manager	Data science professional
	Competitive exam		NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Making an impact	Ability to handle large amounts of data, unearth useful information from a sea of data and help make data-driven predictions.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	The challenges of working with unstructured or incomplete data at times; are the time and effort sometimes required to first organize/prepare/clean the data for analysis.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Every day I work with business and software engineers with a plan to build multiple software using different tech stacks like Java, Python, React, Groovy, and Oracle.	Typically work on projects or extended engagements with clients. Begin with trying to understand their challenge and requirement, detailed review of data available with them; formulate the problem statement; propose a solution based on available data and tools; design the actual solution(s) using appropriate (statistical, visualization, etc) techniques; help to document and implement the solution to drive real business impact.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be financially independent	Wasn't very clear at the outset, but was always inclined toward quantitative methods.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It has numerous opportunities to explore and make an impact in people’s lives using technology	Had the opportunity to interact with some recruiters on campus, interned with a company in the data analytics space, and found my calling here. Got to use my Quant skills to solve real problems and see them in actual use.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	A lot of new technologies frequently changing, so keeping up with the pace and learning along with my daily job is the toughest part of my current occupation. If we don’t keep ourselves updated with the latest technologies our skill set gets obsolete.	Theoretical knowledge gained during education was partly useful, but practical applications were not extensively covered. Real learning happened on the job.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes definitely	Yes, I still like the work content and this space has become very diverse, offering opportunities to learn newer things each day.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and health sector	Data science is a very in-demand domain right now offering countless opportunities for people with various skill sets (data engineering, programming, descriptive and predictive analytics, etc)
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	17
	Age	33
	Qualifications	MBA (IT)
	Present occupation/profession	Software Engineer
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	As a software engineer, there are several aspects of my profession that I truly enjoy. One of the things I find most rewarding is the opportunity to solve complex problems. Every day, I get to apply my analytical and creative thinking to develop innovative solutions that have a real impact on users and businesses. I also appreciate the constant learning and growth that comes with being a software engineer. The tech industry is always evolving, and I find it exciting to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, frameworks, and best practices. This continuous learning keeps me engaged and motivated in my work. Collaboration is another aspect that I value. Working in cross-functional teams allows me to exchange ideas with talented individuals from diverse backgrounds. I've learned that different perspectives can lead to more robust and elegant solutions, and I enjoy the process of working together to achieve a common goal.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	While I am genuinely passionate about my profession as a software engineer, there are a few challenges that I occasionally encounter. One aspect that can be frustrating is the pressure of tight deadlines. In the fast-paced tech industry, projects often have aggressive timelines, and this can sometimes lead to long hours and increased stress. However, I've been working on improving my time management and prioritization skills to handle these situations more effectively. Another challenge I've encountered is the occasional need to work on legacy systems or deal with technical debt. While it's important to maintain and enhance existing software, working on outdated or poorly documented codebases can be complex and time-consuming.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My day usually starts with checking my emails and any urgent notifications. I find it important to stay informed about any updates or critical tasks that need immediate attention. Once I'm caught up on communications, I attend my team meeting where we gather together to discuss ongoing features and bug fixes. Developers explain their approach or process for completing features or fixing bugs. Steps and strategies are outlined, including research, development, testing, and collaboration. Feedback and suggestions are shared among team members. Concerns or dependencies are addressed to ensure progress. The product owner provides guidance and clarifications based on project requirements. After that, I typically spend a good portion of my morning coding. This is when I'm most focused and able to tackle complex technical challenges. I might be working on building new features, optimizing code, or troubleshooting and debugging issues in the existing codebase. Around midday, I'll take a break for lunch, either by stepping away from my computer or eating at my desk while catching up on industry news or technical articles. This break helps me recharge and return to work with a fresh perspective. After lunch, I continue with coding tasks, often implementing feedback received during code reviews or working on new projects. In the evening, I often have meetings or collaborative sessions. These could be design discussions, code reviews, or project status updates with my team. Effective communication is crucial, as we need to align on goals, share progress, and address any roadblocks. Then, I like to review my progress and plan my tasks for the next day. This helps me ensure that I'm on track and organized. I also use this time to update documentation or write technical documentation for my work, as clear documentation is essential for team collaboration and future reference.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	As a student, my goal was to excel in computer science, driven by my passion for problem-solving. My focus evolved to specialize in software engineering. In my current role as a software engineer, I'm actively contributing to innovative software solutions while keeping my core aspiration alive.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I chose my current career due to my inherent passion for technology and its transformative impact. My early fascination with computers, coupled with exposure to real-world applications, solidified my decision. The dynamic nature of the field and the chance to drive innovation led me to where I am today.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	In my career, I see abundant opportunities for further growth. Advancements in artificial intelligence offer avenues to expand expertise. Additionally, taking on challenging projects, pursuing continuous learning through workshops, and seeking leadership roles can propel my career forward. Collaboration with talented professionals and contributing to cutting-edge solutions also hold exciting potential.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Journalist

(Total Participant-4)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age		48
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	Post Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Journalist	Journalist
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Reporting on policy and economy, writing on new trends	It is the profession where we can work for society, we are in a position to raise the relevant issues. We can not only raise but also help to resolve the issues. We are in a position to help the people irrespective of their problems and simultaneously it helps to build your name also.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Irregular timings	Sometimes we get biased and few take the people as a product, which should not.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Read newspapers in the morning, follow up on news reports, chase a news lead, meet sources, and file news reports. Also, look at datasets and file trend stories	I interact with fellow colleagues and see what could be done today. What are the relevant and important issues which can be taken up? Speak to our sources, and explore the internet for various current affairs programs. Look for the complaints and suggestions, etc.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Aspired to be an Air Force pilot, then later decided to be a business journalist	Since my student days, I wanted to do something that would give me a name and fame while doing good. In journalism, I got this opportunity. Where I can work for the society and people acknowledge you also. We write or speak in print or electronic mediums, that help us to connect and become a public figure. Thus, we get fame also
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Enjoyed working with numbers to tell a story, and reporting on the economic landscape of the country	I started as a news anchor. Then I realized it is a profession in which I can help society and lots of individuals. Besides helping others we also get lots of exposure and enhance our speaking skills, knowledge, etc. It broadens our minds and areas of thinking.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	it's a lot of hard work, perseverance, and patience unlike what it gets portrayed to be	Initially, we were clueless about where to start and what to do with the problems of others. It is only that we got the problem published, we have to take it to the conclusion also. But with the help of seniors and the passage of time, we learned and still learning
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, they are worth it when a news report helps policymakers gain insights into the thought processes of the people affected. Remuneration remains a challenge though for journalists	Yes, I do
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Career progression becomes linked to skill enhancement, staying relevant and different from others in narrating an incident in a more comprehensive way	In journalism sky is the limit as we get to meet and interact with various organizations and people. Lots of journalists are helping the government, associations, individuals, etc. Many journalists have become politicians, advisors, ministers, have won the highest awards, etc
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience, a lot of patience	Take the things as they come. Self-confidence is a very important tool.

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	25	30
	Qualifications	PG diploma in journalism	PG Diploma
	Present occupation/profession	Journalist	Photojournalist
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The adrenaline rush is when there is some major breaking.	I continued chasing my passion to turn it into my profession i.e. photography
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	You can't afford to have your own hibernation time as being in touch with the happenings 24*7 is of utmost importance.	Toxic work culture and restricted break time in some organizations.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Currently, while working at the assignment desk, you will need to be updated about the current happenings, coordinate with reporters regarding the stories that need to be covered and at the same time coordinate with the output desk regarding stories that are to be processed.	NA
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a public administrator	To become a photographer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I think journalism has a crucial role in driving some change on the ground.	I had always been a photography enthusiast and decided to pursue the same along with Journalism.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The anxiety about career trajectory, and scope of growth, was indecisive.	None
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes. Overcame those fears and it feels like worth it.	None
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	We can explore different roles in media in different aspects of creativity.	To become a photo editor or a senior photographer of the organization. Not much for the growth opportunities though.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction and the opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Judge

(Total Participant-23)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	37	35
	Qualifications	BSc. (H) Zoology, LLB, and LLM	LLB
	Present occupation/profession	Judge	Public servant
	Competitive exam	Delhi Judicial Service Exam	Delhi judicial service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Independence to work	Independence of working
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Stress
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	As a judicial officer, you are required to resolve disputes between parties and make a decision based on facts and law. So, one has cases listed before you for trial which are read/tried each day. A student who likes to read a lot and is good at public handling should consider the profession.	Working hours are from 10 am to 5 pm with a short lunch break of half an hour. But sometimes preparation has to be done at home also for the next day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a sincere student. Didn't aim to be in the current profession. I feel to know what you want to be at a very young age is usually not possible. Only very handful of students can have that clarity. It's better to first be sincere in your studies; explore your options and then take a career call.	My present occupation
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I practiced as a lawyer before taking the exam. That opened the possibility of this position.	Family background and interest in the subject
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	I didn't prepare specifically for the exam and thus can't comment on this. But consistency in studies is a challenge which one should try and reach.	Lack of practical experience. Otherwise, the challenges faced were like those faced in any other competitive examination.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	As a judge (direct recruit) you can be promoted to a given High Court and that is considered a big achievement in legal circles by many.	It is as per set norms
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Independence to work freely	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Ability to read a lot	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	35	37
	Qualifications	BA LLB	B.A. LLB (Hons.), LL.M.
	Present occupation/profession	Government service	Delhi Higher Judicial Service Officer.
	Competitive exam	Delhi Judicial Service exam	DJS Exam 2008
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Autonomy	One can function with utmost integrity and truthfulness without bothering about any outside influence.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	1. One starts seeing the world through the prism of right and wrong all the time. 2. Sometimes, the salary seems low when seen in the context of people having put in a similar number of years in the private sector.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Taking up cases, reading files, and passing orders	I do sit on the dais at 10 am. Then lunch break is taken from 01:30 pm to 02:00 pm. Thereafter, again on the dais from 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm. Several matters are dealt with during the day. Arguments are heard and orders are dictated. Files are also brought home to go through in the evening or the next morning. Files are brought home for going through during holidays also.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Pilot	There was no set goal during school days. In college, I was doing 5-year law course, so the goal was to become a judge however serious thought was given to that during the last few months only.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My senior in college	Initially, that seemed like the only viable option. Then two of my batchmates got selected in Haryana and a goal seemed achievable.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Consistency and Good quality study material	It was the pre-internet era (the internet could be accessed in cafes only in those days), so getting proper information was a task. Also, I did not have any exam-specific guidance.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes, I do. I still cherish those moments.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotion	Got promoted last year to Additional District & Sessions Judge. Now, depending on several factors, most beyond my control can get retired as Principal District & Sessions Judge or a High Court Judge.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Work-life balance
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Interpersonal skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	41	43
	Qualifications	LL.M.	LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Judicial officer	Judge
	Competitive exam	PCS (J)	Delhi Judiciary examination
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Independence	Independence
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Regular sitting	Some objective criteria of assessment
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Daily sitting from 10 to 5	We sit at a scheduled time in court. We have to attend to all the cases listed for that particular day! We try to make the hearings as effective as possible! A lot depends upon litigants and lawyers too! The ultimate aim is to deliver justice which is also a subjective term in my opinion! But over and above all difficulties I enjoy doing my work
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Judiciary	Entrepreneurship
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Its independence	Destiny
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Uncertainty of vacancies every year	No guidance as I hail from a business family
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Obviously	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Further elevation constitutional post	We learn new here each day so we definitely grow as a person
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	We get sufficient family time	NA
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Sensitivity

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	46	39
	Qualifications	B com, LLM	Postgraduate
	Present occupation/profession	Judge	Judge
	Competitive exam	Delhi judicial service	Delhi Judicial Service exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It ensures Justice dispensation, rule of law	The satisfaction of providing relief to the persons who are in conflict with the powerful institutions.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Limited area of operation and inability to collect the relevant information/evidence by yourself.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	We decide different types of Court cases in India, as per law of India	The day initially starts at around 6 AM. The time till leaving for office is reserved for family and myself. The office starts at 10 AM and officially finishes at 5 PM. During this time it is difficult to entertain any personal visit and on most occasions, you cannot even reply to the phone calls which are made to you during the day. The day involves lengthy sitting and hearing the arguments of the litigants and reading bulky file, case materials. Even after that, you are required to be conscious and active to dictate and prepare orders in the cases during the evening. By the time you reach home, you are exhausted. Despite this, you have to attend to your personal and family obligations.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To Bec me corporate lawyer	I wished to be a defense officer.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I can serve my country,	I pursued law and entering the judiciary was the next logical choice.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Shortage of time	No financial support from any institution and it was the family who was supportive during this period
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Absolutely. The job provides you the opportunities and Avenues to take good care of your family. You come to know good people in your fraternity and the community as a whole respects and supports you.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It's as per govt rules	Routine promotion as per the service rules
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Serving people at large	You are independent in making decisions relating to your job
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		It is helpful if You Are aware of the living conditions of the different segments of society. It is also helpful if you have some basic understanding of different subjects of human civilization.

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	35	45
	Qualifications	LL.M	LLB, LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Judicial Services	Service
	Competitive exam	DJS	Delhi Judicial Service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Independence of work and satisfaction of doing good for others	Being able to resolve disputes among people
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing in particular	The burden of work and the inadequacies of the system
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	After reaching court at 10, hearing the litigants and advocates, pronouncing orders, checking them, reading files, and writing or dictating the judgments.	Sitting and hearing the disputes from 10 to 4 PM
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	UPSC	Being well settled
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Independence of a judge for his work	Just by chance
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Guidance	Not having good study material and lack of guidance
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotion	Not much.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	28	31
	Qualifications	L.L.M.	BSL LLB and LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Metropolitan Magistrate (Judge)	Judicial Magistrate/ Civil Judge
	Competitive exam	Delhi Judicial Services Exam	Delhi Judicial Services examination
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Everything	I get to be a part of the justice delivery system in India
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Adjudication of disputes and conflict resolution	Dealing with cases of a civil nature relating to property and Money recovery
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Judiciary	To become a lawyer of utmost repute
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Public service	The quest for being able to make a difference in someone else’s life through fair decision making
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Momentum and labour	The competition is tough and exams don’t often happen every year, so to keep myself motivated was one challenge
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotions	You have the opportunity to climb the ladder through promotions and reach the epitome of your career
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Management of time and resources

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14
	Age	28	31
	Qualifications	L.L.M.	BSL LLB and LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Metropolitan Magistrate (Judge)	Judicial Magistrate/ Civil Judge
	Competitive exam	Delhi Judicial Services Exam	Delhi Judicial Services examination
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Everything	I get to be a part of the justice delivery system in India
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Adjudication of disputes and conflict resolution	Dealing with cases of a civil nature relating to property and Money recovery
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Judiciary	To become a lawyer of utmost repute
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Public service	The quest for being able to make a difference in someone else’s life through fair decision making
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Momentum and labour	The competition is tough and exams don’t often happen every year, so to keep myself motivated was one challenge
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotions	You have the opportunity to climb the ladder through promotions and reach the epitome of your career
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Management of time and resources

Identifiers	Participant Number	15	16
	Age	43	45
	Qualifications	LLM	LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Judge	Judge
	Competitive exam	DJS	Delhi judicial services
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It gives me an opportunity to serve society.	The fact that we are in a position to do justice for the downtrodden
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Grueling work pressure.	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I sit in the court during court hours followed by studying files at home.	Exercise, the study of case files, and court work
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To serve society while earning my livelihood.	To be a successful lawyer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My love for social work.	After becoming a lawyer I realized that being a judge is also an option
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Like all competitive exams, it requires single-minded focus, a lot of hard work, and determination.	Working as a lawyer and simultaneously preparing for exams was the greatest challenge
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Career progression is predictable and assured.	Promotions
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Legal interpretation skills	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No	No

Identifiers	Participant Number	17	18
	Age	30	38
	Qualifications	BA LLB LLM	LLB (Hons)
	Present occupation/profession	Legal	Public service
	Competitive exam	DJS	DJS
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Integrity	I try to do what I can for the betterment of the society. This profession empowers me to be able to do that to a certain extent
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	6 days working in a week	We are bound by the law sometimes I agree to the letter of the law but not in the spirit
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Working wholeheartedly every day and rest is also important.	I try to dispose of cases which are holding up the people in their quest for justice
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Judiciary	To be what I am today
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Stability	I saw my family doing it and realized I could make a difference
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Three stages of competition	Lack of complete focus
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Surely	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Every file is an opportunity	No idea
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Intellectual satisfaction is an opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	19	20
	Age	45	47
	Qualifications	B Com (Hons.) Company Secretary LLB LLM	BA LLM
	Present occupation/profession	Additional s swoons Judge	Judicial Service
	Competitive exam	Delhi Judicial Services	Delhi Judicial Service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Everything	I get satisfaction when I decide on some issue
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing really	I dislike targets as same somewhere restricts speedy disposal of matters that need urgent hearings.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Currently, I am dealing with criminal cases … I deal with 15-20 cases daily including bail applications… work includes holding trials by recording evidence and giving the accused the opportunity to explain and then deciding the guilt of the accused and if he should be punished. Intermediate things during the trial as to whether an accused should be kept in jail or released on bail are also dealt with.	Currently, I am posted as Joint Registrar (Judicial) at the Delhi High Court. Proceedings before me begin at 11 AM, however, I reach my chamber around 10:15 AM so that I am fully aware of my cause list ie my work for that day. It makes me comfortable and proceedings get faster. Work during the day is not so hectic. I leave around 5 PM and before leaving I go through cases listed for the next day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Wanted to work with the corporate sector as I started pursuing CS immediately after my 12th	I wanted to join govt service as a student and after completing law, I decided to join the judiciary.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Doing CS I realized my interest in law and joined LLB. My husband advised and guided me to appear in the DJS exams so tried and got through	I think it was the respect of people towards the judiciary and opportunity and urge to do justice for the society.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Basically, managing studies and family as I was married with a small kid aged about 6 months when I started preparing for my exam	It takes a lot of effort to get selected for any competitive exam. A sense of insecurity about my career, in case of failure to achieve the target, was the biggest challenge before me.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	💯	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It’s a time-based and vacancy-based promotion system	We can have ample opportunities on the academic side during service. Law is an important subject that is connected with every person's life, being a judge who has good knowledge in law, he or she can have good opportunities in the legal field, after retirement.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	It’s very satisfying when you’re able to give solutions to parties in their long-drawn battles especially in matrimonial and property disputes and some support to victims or an accused who might be the victim of circumstances and is willing to improve	People have faith and respect for the judiciary
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	The skill to listen and give an open space to people to vent out solves a lot of problems but also the skill to know where to stop so that it doesn’t become overindulgence	Hard work and a sense of doing justice to the parties

Identifiers	Participant Number	21	22	23
	Age	34	37	51
	Qualifications	LLM	BSc LLB (Hons)	Postgraduate
	Present occupation/profession	Civil Judge/Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi	Judge	Government service
	Competitive exam	DJS 2019	DJS	Delhi judicial service
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The capacity to facilitate and dispense justice to people.	Sense of fulfilment, justice	Sense of justice
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Pendency of cases	Absence of informal channel of communication with higher authorities	Lack of social life
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	From 10.00 AM to 05.00 PM, we are in the court, either listening, reading, or researching the law. Studying it at home is also a part of our work profile to prepare for the next day.	10-5 is the court time. At home also court-related work may continue, especially research.	Leaving for work at 9 and back home by 5:45. Sitting job. From 10 to 5 with a break of 30 minutes
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To become a Judge	Being a judge was one of the goals.	I wanted to be a journalist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Saw the respect associated with it.	After working in the private sector for some time, I felt that this was the profession that would provide a sense of satisfaction.	Job security and respect
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Extremely long and arduous studies. Dealing with hopelessness and dejection repeatedly. Hard work with no substantial result was a reality that I faced. In the end, determination and self-motivation pulled me through.	Guidance, finding time from already heavy responsibilities of the then job and the family.	Huge syllabus and continuous study for six months. I had quit my work to prepare.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Absolutely	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotions	There is the possibility of elevation to the High Court.	It can take me to a constitutional post.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Ability to enforce change in certain scenarios.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Legal interpretation skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?			Administrative Skills

Parliamentarian

(Total Participant-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	44
	Qualifications	B.E. (Computer Science)
	Present occupation/profession	Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
	Competitive exam	Won General Elections 2019
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Service to mankind, make a difference
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	No work-life balance
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It's 24×7 availability, with 2 million people on your phone list. Daily Schedule includes grievance redressal, ensuring program/project implementation, enacting laws, fighting for local development issues
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Collector
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Collector, NGOs have limited influence on the lives of people
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lots, but you win only when you pursue the fight
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Bright
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Make a better country
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	It's difficult but it's worthwhile

Parliamentary Service

(Total Participant-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	32	28
	Qualifications	BA. L.LB Hons.	Engineering
	Present occupation/profession	Legislative Officer	Govt job
	Competitive exam	Conducted by JRC Lok Sabha. LAFEA service Lok Sabha.	Rajya Sabha secretariat
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Supportive seniors	Challenging
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Too much workload	Hectic, workload
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I look after the Legislative business of the Government in Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament)	Newspaper reading, Current affairs Know your country
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To qualify for UPSC and become a bureaucrat.	Air force
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I appeared for various competitive exams for Group A services and qualified for this one.	Nothing just an opportunity for employment
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The stress of studying and the anxiety of being left behind in my professional career if I do not qualify.	Low confidence, English, frustration, failure, laziness
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Totally.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Good promotional avenues.	Good pay and respect
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Noting and drafting skills, emotional intelligence.

Pilot

(Total Participant-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	28	24	43
	Qualifications	Graduate	BSc forensic science, Post Grad in Business Risk Management, Holds FAA private pilot license	MA
	Present occupation/profession	Pilot	Trainee Pilot	Flight Attendant
	Competitive exam	UPSC	DGCA exams	Test conducted by the airlines
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The different perspective it provides to see the world and serve the people at the same time.	Everything! Flying is love. It’s beautiful	Travel and interact with new people every day
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Long and undefined working hours on certain occasions	Nothing except it just gets stressful and hectic sometimes	Odd hours of duty
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	No fixed schedule. The day generally starts at 7, but sometimes may even start at 5 in the morning or even before that. After coming to the office, we have some briefings, then we go for flying, come back and have debriefs, and then go for other sorties. Generally, the day gets over by 6-7 pm but at times when night flying is involved, it gets stretched up to 11-12 pm.	Well, these days, I am flying almost daily and studying a lot to clear the exams and oral tests. I have to keep my health in check too.	No fixed schedule
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a fighter pilot	I always dreamt of becoming a pilot but my father was not on board. So, I opted for another field to earn some money to fund this.	To be independent and do what I love doing
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The will to do something for the country, the respect this profession brings along with the financial independence and an adventure-filled life	I always dreamt of being a pilot and in my previous job, there came a point where I just couldn't take it anymore. I got extremely anxious and the work became toxic during lockdown. I was working double shifts and getting paid very little.	Travel
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	No specific problem. Just that the syllabus is vast but with proper time management and planning, can be done.	1. Society doesn't want to see a woman get independent let alone fly planes at off times, leaving their family at home. I had relatives talking trash about my career choice to my father and only focusing on the cons of being a pilot which only exist because they think women should be limited to looking after their family and even if they work, they should be back home on time to make dinner and generate babies. Sucks, I know. 2. The career path I have opted for demands extensive financial investment. 3. Perfect Health	At that time no relevant material was available
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Definitely	Yes definitely. Fingers crossed!	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	We have certain professional growth in our careers based on experience and performance.	I will be eventually promoted to captain. I can opt to fly wide body aircraft and operate international flights or settle down abroad if I prefer. I can also handle administrative (ground) roles later in life in the field of aviation only.	Not much coz of the same work profile throughout the career
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Extensive traveling, meeting tonnes of new people, a chance to explore several cultures, etc.	Travel the world free of cost 😍
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Skills to organise and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Confidence and Integrity	Decision-making, problem-solving, taking care of own health, time management, great communication skills

Private Secretary/Stenographer

(Total Participant-4)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	37	35
	Qualifications	Graduate	BA
	Present occupation/profession	Private Secretary	PS
	Competitive exam	After clearing the Stenographer Grade C & D Exam in 2011, I got a job as Stenographer Grade D in the Income Tax Department and after getting two promotions, I became a Private Secretary, which is my current position	SSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Chances of promotion in my profession are more and better as compared to other	I give my 100% to my work and do my work honestly.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	You get stuck in your seat every time and have to do and attend so many official calls as well as sometimes unwanted calls.	Misusing their power by people doing a big job
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Come to the office in the morning as usual, take dictation, and do some other work that is assigned to me by my boss or superior authority the most important work is maintaining the meetings and other important daily schedules of my boss and briefing all of them to him or her. Also, attending and making phone calls and other important miscellaneous work and followed up on the instructions of my boss and higher authorities.	Waking up early in the morning, eating a balanced diet, staying active in physical activities, and observing the events happening around you. Do not consider your work as a burden and live every moment with joy in your personal & professional life.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To get a suitable government job.	I wanted to become a leader and I want to spread the benefits of different schemes for the education and better health of poor children
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Chances of promotion and a better pay package made me take the decision to opt for my present career.	Poverty and lack of amenities
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	So many challenges	I did not have the support of my parents, shortage of money and lack of resources
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Chances of getting further promotion as Senior Private Secretary in future and maybe more ahead.	Reaching the post of AC DC by going into the inspector line
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Financial support and respect in society
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		An additional language, shorthand

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	38	33
	Qualifications	MA Eco.	Graduation
	Present occupation/profession	Gazetted officer (PS) in CBDT	Private Secretary
	Competitive exam	SSC for stenographer	SSC
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	A stenography course is neither expensive nor long-term. If any student has a good command of Hindi/English, this is one of the best jobs. It's language-based. You work as the right hand to your officer and learn many new things. You are always in touch with the subject you actually love. Drafting letters of many formats with their application is one of the most important things and I am happy I am doing it more efficiently. When you start working on this post, you actually learn discipline, punctuality, maintaining confidentiality, and much more. This all together also improves the personality of an individual. It's pride and respect to work as a Gazetted officer in a Government Organization.	Nature of job, work-life balance, career progression.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	People of other cadre perform field duties, go for different pieces of training/upgradations/ outstation duties, etc. In the stenographer cadre, it's an office-bound job.	Lack of exposure to other departments of government and the monotonous nature of the job.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Assisting Senior officers with appointments, meetings, schedules, and office work assigned by the officer like drafting letters of different formats, e-mails, keeping track of important files, etc.	Attending office at 9:30 Am, doing official work till lunchtime at 1:30 PM. From 2 o’clock to 6 PM in the evening do official work and then leave for home.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Chartered Accountant, but I did not score well in my boards.	To get a government job for lack of opportunities in the private sector and personal financial constraints.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	A government Job is a respectable job and also I worked hard to get this job.	No other opportunities in the private sector and having a background of family serving in government jobs.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	I did not score well on my boards. My family was not interested in an office job they said to go for this course and become a teacher of the same subject. After my ITI certificate course, I did teaching in private ITI and then I worked in the private sector (stenographer) and then I started my preparation for Govt. Job. I was selected as a Junior Court Assistant in the Supreme Court of India. There I realised that I was typing only I should concentrate on my shorthand. Then I applied for SSC and was selected as a Stenographer. I joined there on a lower pay scale than the Supreme Court but I felt good. The challenge was there because I got married when I was doing a job in the private sector. With the support of my family, I handled family responsibilities (two daughters) and also prepared for this exam.	Didn’t face any challenge to which I can enumerate here. It’s subjective and can vary from person to person.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Answered above.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	In this Department, it's not that good but in Ministries, there are 3-4 more promotions after PS.	Timely promotion as per seniority and vacancy occurring.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Mental stability and social security.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		As per the syllabus mentioned in the SSC exam for this post.

Product Manager

(Total Participant-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	33
	Qualifications	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Product Manager
	Competitive exam	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Creativity
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Regular office visits
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Chart out the to-do list, check the calendar and plan meetings accordingly, read about current developments in the fin sector, spend some time in new learning, networking
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Find a job that interests you
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Choice of devoting equal time to family and career
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	None
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	NA
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Lead a business or create one
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No repetitive work
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Zeal to learn new things and be ambitious

Professor/Lecturer

(Total Participant-15)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age
	Qualifications	M.A, M. Phil in English	M. Phil, Ph.D.
	Present occupation/profession	Lecturer in English	Professor
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Teaching, Emotional connect with my students	Contact with the young generation and imparting knowledge
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Documentation	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Juggling between home and college is quite exhausting but it's quite rewarding	Reach the University at around 10 AM, take classes, and tutorials, advise students about different aspects of life, train them under NSS, and help them prepare for extracurricular activities
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a teacher	To be a professor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My teachers	Seeing my Parents who were also University Professors
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Vast syllabus for preparation	Had to be consistent with studies
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Promotion to the post of a Prof or being the principal of the institution	Promotion, regular contact with the subject matter, going abroad for teaching, publishing books, and writing research articles
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	In contact with youth which gives you new energy
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Communication skills and writing power

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age		38
	Qualifications	Ph. D	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Associate Professor, Delhi University	Professor
	Competitive exam		IIT, GRE
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Intellectual freedom, Excellent students, enough Time for self-development	Interaction with students, personal gratification to be able to influence the lives of 100s of students every year, flexible work hours, intellectual stimulation daily
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Political interference at the stage of appointments (recently in colleges)	Flexible work hours (both a boon and a bane) - work never stops, no end goal
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Wake up a bit late (8 AM) and study for 1 hr before going to university where class work/discussion/research work etc take place.	Teach (around 4-5 hours a week), prepare for classes, grade, office hours (around 12-15 hours a week), research and mentor students, and study (20-25 hours a week)
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Some decent job where full intellectual freedom and proper time is available.	Scientist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My master's from Delhi University made me inclined toward academic jobs	Comparing industry vs academia - after a stint in industry (internships), realized I wanted to go for academia
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The appointment process is not that transparent	Long and arduous process; don't have a real job until 7-8 years after you finish your bachelor's, low finances while your friends are earning big bucks
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Absolutely; Content with where I am and what I do
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Got the opportunity to deliver more than 75-80 lectures and quality discussions with intellectuals.	Move to an administrative post within the University or to Congress (position to bring about wholesale changes through policy) OR start-ups and/or tech ventures
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Possibility of mental and spiritual satisfaction	None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Debating, and articulatory skills	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	We have to realize that knowledge is power.	Deal with failures almost daily with successes few and far-flung - staying strong in the face of adversity

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	43	37
	Qualifications	Ph. D	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Lecturer	Assistant Professor
	Competitive exam	NET-UGC	CSIR NET JRF
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	The feeling of being able to mentor the next generation	Teaching is a fun
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	There is a lot of administrative work at times which reduces the time available for pursuing research	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	9 AM-4 PM in college with a few hours to be dedicated at home as well for lecture preparation	Reading 1 hr
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be teaching in a college	To become a successful person
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It enables me to have a balance between my professional and personal life	My parents wish
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	It was a very competitive exam	Should prepare notes
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To do well as a researcher and academician	There are promotions
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Job security	Mental peace
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Reading books

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	48	32
	Qualifications	PhD	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Professor	Research scholar
	Competitive exam	No	UGC NET JRF
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Intellectually stimulating, lots of freedom	Choice of exploration
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	No fixed schedule but involves teaching, research, and admin responsibilities. Research extends beyond regular working hours	I always wake up in the morning and start reading research papers and get new insights
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Get a job, Engineer	To become an assistant professor
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Respect, lifestyle	My choice and interest
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Left a corporate high-paying job to join academics	Multiple responsibilities
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Yes	To become an assistant professor
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Freedom	All sorts of benefits
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Resilience	Skils of statistics

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	31	42
	Qualifications	Ph. D Research Scholar	Ph. D.
	Present occupation/profession	Research Scholar	Assistant professor
	Competitive exam	Na	CSIR UGC NET (NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST)
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Teaching & Research	Teaching and research
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Ni	Evaluation and marks the grade-oriented current trend in academics
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Read write daily	The workload of around 15 hours of teaching. Administrative meetings and intensive mind-churning research in the remaining time.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Teacher	Academics.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Teaching	Teaching-learning is my passion.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Na	Very long time with unanswered questions and books, and staying focused during my Ph. D. Was very tough!
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes, it made me so strong that now I can say I can learn any new thing with question-answers.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Yes	Interdisciplinary studies find connections among various domains of knowledge and life.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Inner Joy
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Na	Presentation skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	29
	Qualifications	Ph D	Ph D
	Present occupation/profession	Assistant Professor	AI/ML Researcher
	Competitive exam		GRE and PhD from the US
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Research, engagement with young minds, and work flexibility	Novel and challenging
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Networking	Always there is more to do
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Being an assistant professor at RMIT Australia, I am required to teach a few hours a week. The rest of the time I spend doing research and writing research articles.	Spend a couple of hours talking to interns about research projects. Working with product teams to get work into the product. Coordinate with global teams. Write academic papers and patents.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To give my 100% in my studies and achieve good results. Eventually, I discovered my career in higher education.	No specific goal. Just to understand the concept deeply.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Interest in research and teaching. Also, it provides work hours flexibility where I can utilize and spend time on personal well-being.	I worked on a research project just after my master's and realized that I like research.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	The first challenge I faced was to secure a fully funded scholarship to do a Master's research and PhD. During PhD, the challenge was to write high-quality research articles.	I had poor spoken and written English skills. Applying for a US PhD was costly.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Academia provides the opportunities to excel in my career by obtaining higher positions like Professor and Director of a research center.	AI/ML skills are highly sought after in the market. Building bigger and better systems using AI/ML tools can open up more leadership opportunities.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Academic papers, patents, working on state-of-the-art Generative models
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Perseverance	Written communication skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14	15
	Age	33	28	43
	Qualifications	PhD	MSC. Fashion Marketing & Management	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Lecturer	Lecturer	Professor (teaching)
	Competitive exam	DSSSB		no
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Teaching	Learning	Independence, the scope of innovation, talking to young students
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Paperwork	Nothing	low salary
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Regular subject-based teaching	wake up early in the morning.	Mostly 6 days a week. but very flexible. about 40 hours a week.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Teaching	To Become a Successful Teacher	I had no goal
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Teaching interests me	Interest	my choice for independence and my love for research and innovation
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Nothing	Laziness	It requires PhD and original research papers in good venues to become a professor in a good place
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	yes	yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To grow as HoS	Growth	I am already at the peak of my career
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention			lots of holidays
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Skills to organize and manage	Creativity, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?			writing

Provident Fund Officer

(Total Participant-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	42	47
	Qualifications	Post Graduate	M Phil
	Present occupation/profession	Salaried	Govt
	Competitive exam	Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner UPSC	EPFO Asst. Commissioner
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Nature of the job and extent of reach to the people	Diverse work experience working for the government and the private/public sector
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	All India Transfer Liability	Career progression is not well defined
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	EPF Claims Settlement and its monitoring, seeking Compliance from the establishments covered under EPF Act - 1952, Redressal of grievances, Management of manpower, Overall supervision of the Office	It is a government Job with fixed timings but the duty calls for working outside your daily timings
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a Public Servant	To become a sportsperson
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My desire to be a Group A Officer under any Department of Central Govt.	Options available
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Neither many people knew about this job nor books were available for its preparation	Did not prepare especially for this job
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	No specific challenge
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I can become a Joint Secretary level Officer or even Additional Secretary level by the time I retire... For any Public Servant, it is a desirable and reasonable career growth.	You can rise in the defined way. Not much scope for career growth but definitely a lot of personal growth by working this the social security sector
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	We work to provide social security to unorganized workers of the society.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Proactive and open to new ideas even of the subordinates

Public Policy Professional

(Total Participant-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	32	43
	Qualifications	Postgraduate	PhD
	Present occupation/profession	Public policy professional	Policy consultant
	Competitive exam
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Multi-dimensional challenges and dynamic working,	Flexibility, satisfaction, intellectual
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	lesser job and growth opportunities	Uncertainty, less money, no clear or fixed growth trajectory
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Work from office 10-7, work from home post office, work on weekends and routine travel	No fixed schedule
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	public administration and public policy	Journalist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Interest in influencing global policy discourse and public policy outcomes.	Internship
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	lack of streamlined career path and guidance	Expanding horizons. Unlearning
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	not really	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Still figuring out	Start your own venture
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

PSU Job

(Total Participant-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	43	49	32
	Qualifications	B. Tech	BE	BE Civil
	Present occupation/profession	Junior Engineer UPPCL	Airports Authority of India (AAI)	Executive Engineer (Civil) in DMRC
	Competitive exam	No	All India Test by AAI	GATE, DMRC ENTRANCE EXAM
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	My professional belongs to electricity which is the backbone of every field and an essential part of everyone's life	Practicability	Dynamic work profile. Daily new challenges. Exposure to real work problems. Unlimited Opportunities to learn new and advanced construction technology, methodology, financing, etc. Able to contribute to the infrastructure growth of the country which is considered as the backbone of economic growth.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The expectations of people are too high we are working in very difficult situations without proper protection in a very lethal environment and without any appreciation	Most of the time there is a shortage of manpower and we need to work extra time/on weekends	Extended work hours. Poor work-life balance. 24x7 responsible for site work. Fixed growth opportunity in the government sector. Lots of site engineers of contractors are ignorant about the technical importance of the work they are executing.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	As such there is no schedule we are always in alert mode	We do office work which involves working on e-files, e-tendering, preparation of estimates, preparation of tender documents, and sending various data to headquarters via email, Google Sheets, other formats, etc. Being a civil engineer we've to look after the execution of site works which involves ensuring good quality monitoring progress and other tender conditions during work.	Construction site visit to oversee progress quality safety and give necessary resolution for the problems faced at the site. Meeting and coordination with various government and private bodies to facilitate construction. Paperwork like replying to letters and taking necessary approvals. Measurement of work executed and its billing and budgeting.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	As a student at our time, our career goal was only to get a comfortable job	Getting a good job with a proper working environment	Civil engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	By luck	I've applied for many jobs in the sector and finally joined the one which I felt most apt	I have always been fascinated by construction activity since childhood.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	In our time the main challenge was improper guidance or no guidance	Very few vacancies compared to the number of applicants	High competition with limited opportunities to enter into government sectors related to infrastructure or civil engineering. Increase in cutoff marks for selection when I started preparation and when I actually got selected.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes	Yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Yes we can get promotions in our department	Promotions are not time-bound but available as per the number of vacancies	Excellent opportunities lie ahead as is infrastructure boom is happening in India. Lots of large infrastructure projects are planned to be executed in the next 3 to 4 decades. Therefore there will be high demand for skilled professionals in this sector
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Civil Engineering, in particular, is a very practical branch and we have lots of construction works/projects of diverse nature in AAI	Nontransferable job.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	At the current scenario in our department, it is a very hectic schedule and you have put all your work aside and have to work in very hard situations with fewer resources and without any complaint		Most important is the attitude towards work. If it's positive, you will find solutions else you would see only problems.

Railway Officer

(Total Participant-13)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	44
	Qualifications	B Tech	B Tech, MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Govt job in UIDAI	Chief Operations Officer
	Competitive exam	SCRA	SCRA, CAT
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Feel blessed that I can help the masses	Great place to learn
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	It's potential is not utilized to its fullest	Lack of opportunities
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Data Analytics	Being head of operations means that I help plan, execute, and decide operational strategies for the organization.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To join railways	To become an Engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Seeing the life of elders who were also in railways	More opportunities!
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Limited seats	Lack of proper guidance from good teachers
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The sky is also not the limit	Can go on to lead the organization
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Service to Nation	None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No	None

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	48	51
	Qualifications	Engineer MBA	EC Part-1&2 (BTech Mech Engg)
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service	Design Mech Engineering
	Competitive exam	SCRA UPSC	UPSC SCRA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Technical content	Creativity it allows. Allows me to tinker with engineering equipment and coaches
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Excessive Financial Control	Administrative Requirements / Deadlines
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Depending on assigned tasks, the schedule varies from 24×7 as in train operation to less taxing but more intense 9.00 to 6.00 pm	Up at 4, Clear electronic office docs. mail, plan day. 6-7 Walk/cycle / exercise. 930-1900 at Office. Into the bed 2130
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Financial Security	To be an engineer. Aeronautical or Mechanical
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Security and consistency	My Selection to SCRA
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Not much. But there is something called Chemistry	Keep the focus for long periods. Starting to prepare for Class XII and then this entrance exam held in July.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	YES
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	The assignments keep getting bigger and more complex	Offers opportunities for the highest management positions
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No	Usually great places to stay at
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No	Systems Engineering

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	50	49
	Qualifications	Post Graduate	B. Tech
	Present occupation/profession	Service	Service
	Competitive exam	SCRA	SCRA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Public Service	Management and Engineering both in healthy doses
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	None.	Straight jacket rules for even trivial matters
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	morning 9 am to evening 8 pm.	Morning feedback from all units regarding their operations, plan for the day's events and targets, conduct meetings, reviews, field visits, report to seniors, plan further strategies, monitor day events at the end of the day, repeat every day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Same as the present job.	To become an Engineer
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Peer consultation, parents guidance.	Engineering career in the Government sector
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	studying for the exam along with the school/ college course schedule.	Lack of guidance
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Diversity, learning new issues, connecting with people, etc.	Personal growth is in gaining technical knowledge and working with the best minds in the country and professional growth as in rise in career graph.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in others’ lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Opportunity to work in different positions and different roles in the organization
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		No

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	44	46
	Qualifications	BE Mechanical Engineering	BE
	Present occupation/profession	Senior Manager in Indian Railways (presently on deputation as General Manager in DFCCIL)	Railway Engineer
	Competitive exam	Cleared SCRA exam conducted by UPSC.	SCRA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Job variety, challenges, and opportunity to work at different places	Satisfying
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	A lot busy
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The present assignment is as per office timings for project monitoring. Work on holidays/weekends as needed.	Transport business like railways need continuous efforts
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Be a part of the government to bring improvement and serve the country	Army
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Opportunity to work for country, decent salary, job security	Chance
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Qualifying SCRA exam, one of the toughest exams in India	Syllabus material availability
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Senior positions in government where I can contribute more	Greater responsibilities
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		None
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Courage

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	47	49
	Qualifications	MBA	Graduate
	Present occupation/profession	Railway officer	Government servant
	Competitive exam	SCRA (UPSC)	SCRA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Social impact	Multifaceted job, an opportunity to learn and deal with so many fields from HR to finance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	24 by 7 job	Poor compensation is not commensurate with the responsibilities and workload sometimes
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Daily monitoring of the working of systems, resolving issues, and also planning for better system and infrastructure	Presently I'm on deputation and I m doing a desk job, which involves a lot of understanding of the intricate workings of almost all government departments and how government employees do any misconduct in their workplace. And then whether the department is justified in taking action against them for such a misdemeanour. Then defend my organization in the huge court cases.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Become an administrator	To be a fighter pilot
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Prestige of the service	Family compulsions
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of guidance	Huge competition. Limited resources due financial constraints of my parents
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Not clear	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Broader responsibility	I can opt for a deputation in so many other government departments, experiencing entirely new kind of working like I am doing now..
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		The present deputation affords me a lot of stress and free time
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Analytical skills developed in analysing disciplinary cases

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12	13
	Age	48	50	45
	Qualifications	BE Mechanical	PhD	B.E.(Mech)
	Present occupation/profession	Government Service / Railways	Government service	ADRM/East Central Railway
	Competitive exam	Special Class Railway Apprentice/ Conducted by UPSC	UPSC SCRA Exam	SCRA exam by UPSC in 1996
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Variety and proximity with engineering issues.	Freedom to set my targets aligned with organizational goals and achieve them	Wide variety of jobs in providing transportation for the masses, classes, and businesses.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Lack of commitment/discipline towards work by staff.	Higher management sets targets with inflexible and impractical methods to achieve them. No flexibility or powers are available for the field units to achieve such targets	Over monitoring. Excess involvement in daily affairs till the highest levels leaving very little time for deep work.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Listing of priority items before coming to the office. Attending daily out-turn review meetings and giving directions on routine and non-routine issues. The majority of time and effort goes into follow-up for planning / arranging the material. After the meeting (of about 30 minutes) a round of workshop premises. Seeing/understanding one or two specific issues for resolution. Few issues of follow-up for quality improvement. Regular follow-up of housekeeping and cleanliness of workshop premises. Office work from 1100 -1115 hrs onwards. Followup of issues related to planning and execution of improvement projects, and personnel issues.	Monitoring the operation and maintenance of trains over Konkan Railway	Morning Control position. Office from about 9:30 am to 7 pm including some field inspections. 1 or both weekends are partially used. Sometimes about 4-5 times calls about unusual in train operations besides the above timings. However, Railways has a lot to offer besides 24x7 Operations jobs which forms only a part of work that includes many more supporting and backend roles.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Pursue a career in the Engineering Stream.	To be the best student	Engineering. Railways were also a dream.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Financial stability.	Enjoyed traveling in trains, so took up a career in Railways	Secure Class 1 Engineering job.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Non-availability / accessibility of structured and planned preparation.	None	Not much. Engineering Entrance preparation was more challenging. With my background of being good in Maths, English, GK, Mental ability, and no stress interview I qualified although I might have scored less in Physics & Chemistry.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes.	Focus was key	Yes.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Can rise in the organization for a much wider role.	None	A good Mechanical Engineering growth opportunity in certain jobs besides good grooming for techno-managerial and bureaucratic jobs.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Allows to visit and explore different places	Lots of travel	A satisfying job in the service of the nation impacting lots of people..
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Understanding of Human Behaviour.	None	An aptitude for technology and its useage. Willingness to learn new systems, new technology.

RBI Officer

(Total Participant-5)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	36	52
	Qualifications	B.Tech, MBA	Master in Applied Economics
	Present occupation/profession	Central Banker	Director, Department of Economic Affairs, MoF, Government of India
	Competitive exam	RBI Grade B	RBI Grade B
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Work-Life Balance	Economic Policy decisions based on Research and data analysis
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	No dislike as such	Difficult to reach the last mile of society for overall development and equity
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Students should keep themselves updated consistently on the national front as well as on the Global Front by reading National Dailies along with good magazines like The Economist and EPW. Further, Students must work on Reasoning, Basic Quant and Vocab, and writing skills consistently to clear any kind of initial hurdles faced in various examinations.	Start with positive energy, with baby steps towards all daily objectives. I focus more on the process rather than the end result. I would suggest, if your baby steps are in the right direction, be assured of your achievements.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Indian Administrative Service	Be a Civil Servant for the society
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	After IAS, I found the Reserve Bank of India as the best career to touch People's lives in some way.	Related to the subject I studied during my higher education.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Access to relevant information to be read, perseveration, and exam preparation while doing the job	Proper guidance, study materials, and motivation for long preparation for the exams. Affirmative guidance and mentorship are very important for preparation.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes, proper planning along with hard work and consistency is key to success.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I will try my best to excel in the field of Finance and Economy.	Join Academic to share the long working experience while working in the Reserve Bank of India and G20 Secretariat, MoF.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Opportunities to share thoughts on Indian growth perspective at the global forum and bring global thoughts and experiences in Indian policy perspectives.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Regular Reading of a standard Business News Paper.

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4	5
	Age	54	39	42
	Qualifications	Ph. D	MA, MBA	MBA, MA
	Present occupation/profession	Director, Ministry of Finance	Service	service
	Competitive exam	RBI Grade B	RBI SB	RBI grade B exam process
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Linked to my studies	Opportunity to work on varied subject areas	work culture, working hrs, job security, compensation policy, posting in cities only
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Non-dynamic	Nothing	Transferable job. they should post me at my choice of center.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Research and Analysis- Macroeconomics	Currently working on financial inclusion and development	Responding to Govt. communications, RTI replies, handling RTI appeals, reading about the current financial situation on a daily basis, updating my knowledge base and skills,
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Civil service	To work in the field of development	to become a banker. I became a central banker after working briefly as a commercial banker.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Second best option	The organization provides a bigger canvas to make an impact in the society.	My social circle, friends, etc guided me to pursue a career in banking
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Financial	Sometimes Keeping the momentum going was tough as the competition was tough and success was not guaranteed	Arranging study material, magazines on current affairs, and information on current vacancies at periodic intervals. in early 2000, these things were to be arranged in hard copy as the internet was still in the introductory phase.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Yes	Yes. struggle ignited a fire in me to work still harder to achieve the desired goals.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Good prospects	Can reach up to the rank of Deputy Governor.	promotion after a fixed time as per my eligibility through tests, interviews, and Performance appraisal report marks.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Financial security		working with note-printing entity is a special experience
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Puzzle solving aptitude, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Lifetime learning		communication skills--both oral and verbal, up-to-date information on financial markets, functioning of the economy, fundamental concepts of economics and financial markets, financial products, derivatives, and much more like comparative global practices and products

Scientist

(Total Participant-3)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2	3
	Age	35 years	43	45
	Qualifications	Ph. D	MSc Mathematics	M.B.B.S, M.S
	Present occupation/profession	Scientist	Scientist/ Additional Director in Defence Research and Develop Organization	Scientist/entrepreneur
	Competitive exam	No	No, a Direct interview and nowadays Gate score is required also you may have to give a written examination before the interview	GRE, TOFEL
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Innovation and intellectual satisfaction	I could see the application of mathematics in the communication and security field	Opportunity to serve humanity
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	None	Restrictions due to classified work	Ethical issues about Financial transactions involving human health
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	My office timing is from 9:15 am to 5:15 pm, I have to attend to the patients for dietary counseling in the morning in Medicine OPD (2 days a week), supervise and ensure the implementation of research studies, patient recruitment, and disease management. In the second half of my day, I work on data management, academic and scientific writing, and planning new experiments.	Reading Research and programming and some other routine classified work	Morning rituals are the most important which pave the way for the day. Start with yoga and prayers followed by healthy brunch and hit the deck with full energy for the next 8-10 hrs. Eve calming rituals of meditation and relaxation with reading and precious family time. Late eve in short planning of next day and pre-sleep reading. Taking care of the body and mind along with relationships and staying positive plays an important part in a healthy and happy life.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I wanted to become a medical practitioner.	Wanted to do PhD in Mathematics and become a professor	Be a Successful Professional
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My interest in the science of disease management and innovation.	Central Government job means a secure future	Social entrepreneurship
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Distractions and frustration over delayed success.	Communication skills as I was from Gujarati medium	Tough calls and challenges throughout the journey including the financial crisis, personal doubting even up to the stage of giving up. Personal Mental agility is more of an internal fight than the exterior
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes	Absolutely and feels very satisfactory and content to have gone through those problems and difficulties and learned important lessons from life
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It gives me the opportunity to serve the wider public health problems and innovate in developing treatment strategies.	You can do state-of-the-art research and see its applications or output which is useful for services.	Integrate complimentary and alternative holistic approaches and methods with modern medicine and avail it to unreachable to empower healthy happy and blissful lives for all
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	World-class healthcare facilities for me and my loved ones.	Feel satisfied at the end of the day as you learn new things every day.	Explore unknown territory and horizon of science and spirituality
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Love for reading and eagerness to learn new things	Learning

Social Worker

(Total Participant-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	52
	Qualifications	MBA
	Present occupation/profession	Aspiring Psychologist and social worker
	Competitive exam	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Listening to people
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing as yet
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Visits to centers on done days otherwise work from home
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a good psychologist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	To do something different
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Preparation for exams
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To be of more use to those requiring help
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Peace of mind
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Soft Skills Trainer

(Total Participant-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	44	44
	Qualifications	B Sc	BA (Hons) Geog, B Ed
	Present occupation/profession	Soft skills trainer	Freelancing in administration, security, counselling & education,
	Competitive exam	TTT- Train the trainer	SSB for Indian Air Force
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	I can communicate and meet different people every day	Discipline, crisis management, travel, passion and zeal
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	I don’t like that skill building is taking the shape of a business now in the system	Due to lack of time at times, you tend to give up your hobbies and be unable to get in regular touch with friends and family.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Since I am a freelance trainer I can take up assignments that connect with my emotions ( most of the time) that’s why I really love doing my work any time of the day. It can be online/ offline both	Presently I am freelancing so I don’t have any set schedule.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Always wanted to get into a creative field	Since std 5th I wanted to join Defence Forces, in my higher secondary it turned into the Air Force and I had my cousins in the Indian Army and Indian Navy.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	My passion for speaking, and writing and my innate ability to connect with people led me to choose this career	It was my passion for the services and uniforms. The present job: various
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Time, and routine as a housewife, growing children, and a big family however turned into my strength the moment I started implementing my learning in my personal life	A lot. To start with reducing and maintaining my weight to defend medical standards. Preparing for SSB in various ways. How to conduct yourself, solutions-oriented answers, etc. Among all these major struggles was waking up early.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes they were worth it	Yes definitely
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Want to be a coach and a councillor as well	As a veteran freelancer, it’s up to me to carve my career. Opportunities are always there, it’s up to me to choose one
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills	Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	No	Passion is important in any profession

Start-up/Entrepreneur

(Total Participant-5)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	39	51
	Qualifications	B. Tech (CSE)	M.B.A
	Present occupation/profession	Director and CEO of a Software Technology Company	Self Employed
	Competitive exam	IIT-JEE, Civil Services	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Ability to contribute to a larger cause of technology development in the country and its role in national security and national building.	Freedom of time, no bossism, can make our decisions
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	The ecosystem is very dysfunctional and requires an immense amount of coordination and this leads to the wastage of precious human resources talent. For example, colleges don't prepare students with good fundamentals of science, and the students who come out of college are not suited for roles in technology companies and require investment of time and effort.	Time-bound
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	0500 - 800 HRS: Personal time for reading and writing & preparing for the day. 800 - 1000 HRS: Family time and getting ready for office: sort out small events. 1000 - 1800 HRS: Office work: Meetings with Clients, Technology Teams & Interviews 1800 - 2000 HRS: Closing down ritual (Reading, Spending time contemplating or meeting friends) 2000 -2100 HRS: Reading/writing notes for tomorrow's work. 2100 - 2200 HRS: Winding down with Pets/Family. 2200 - 0500 HRS: Sleep.	Retail business, open daily from 10.00 AM to 9.00 PM
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Building Fantastic Technological solutions to remove poverty and protect my country.	Top-notch professional
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Scope and immense potential to contribute to the nation.	Hectic schedule in service
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of exposure, Lack of right tools & Lack of infrastructure and resources.	Finances
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	100% Karma exists and your sincere efforts will always be paid well.	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Raising from technology provider to policy-based roles for creating a sophisticated ecosystem in the country and later the whole world.	We can expand any folds
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Impactful position, Fame
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Grooming and developing Young minds.	Financial freedom
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Time management for production and delivery

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4	5
	Age	26	40+	34
	Qualifications	BTech in biotechnology	Post Graduation	B.E. Mechanical
	Present occupation/profession	Digital Marketer	Educationist (PGT)	Leading Startup
	Competitive exam	NA	MAT, B Ed, M Com entrance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	It is dynamic in nature and brings out the creative side in me	Imparting knowledge to structure the young and naive minds. I feel pride in giving the right direction to the young generation and in turn building the nation's talent.	New ideas for Employment generation - New product development - Challenging Products and problem-solving for the masses
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	It is very hectic	Nothing as such. In fact, the Teaching profession must have more respect and preferences at the national level. After all, teachers must get the due recognition in society. Our society is not able to acknowledge the teachers ' hard work and stature hence depleting the glory of this profession.	- Work Follow-ups - Unwanted intermittent load shadings - lack of willingness of people towards work
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Run Ads on Social media platforms like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Spend real-time budgets of the clients to achieve a goal. Take care of Customer Acquisition and retention. Work with Excel and visualization tools.	As a woman, I religiously have a 5 am to 5 pm schedule. Home managing, approx 2.5 hours traveling to and fro for the workplace, 7 hours dedicated to the workplace. Evenings are spent in reading, cooking, teaching kids at home, etc. At the workplace, I am responsible for each and every learner's outcomes in terms of marks scored. I am also responsible for imparting extra knowledge as per the needs of the learner. Checking and setting papers, handling organizations ' challenges, and adapting to the ever-changing education system and syllabus and patterns.	6:30 Day starts 7:30 Check the mail 9:00 Reach to Factory 9-10 Aling work 10-12 work meetings reviews 12-1 Client calls 1-1:30 Break 1:30 - 3 - Production Round 3-5 - Check the Dispatch plan and coordinate with Vendors and Purchase 5-6 - Dispatch Invoices check and get all the work entries 6-7:30 - Production target status and plan for Tomorrow morning Same for Monday to Wednesday Thursday - Friday - Travel plans related to meetings with Banks Investors presentations and Client sites
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Doctor	I was always interested in simplifying the learning process by making tough concepts easier for my siblings. So, teaching was always my passion and so I am an educator by choice. If not a teacher, my second priority could have been to be a doctor or a clinical psychologist. One shall always have options and an exit plan if need be!! The world is full of opportunities to choose from.	To start my manufacturing setup and generate jobs for people
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Always wanted to do something creative in life.	My interest in teaching	Inspiration from my parents and Mentors
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	It is difficult to be disciplined and difficult to face failures.	Opposition as people in our society views the teaching profession as the last resort. So, one has to prove his / her worth.	Entrepreneurship is always challenging - Continues changes in views and vision - Pivots in plans - Not any specific footprint to follow - Self-doubt peer pressure - Negative comments
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes, it is. But one must be best in his / her doing to reach out the good employment opportunities and a good package. Else, as compared to MNCs it can be frustrating to see their packages.	Yes, if one wants to create a Mark of Statement the challenges are always there, And it's part of our life leaving creatures nothing to worry about
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	One can become a Product Head, CMO, Director of marketing, etc	Can be a principal, dean, director, professor, associate professor, etc. It depends on the field selection.	- Grown in size of business - Global Reach and Exports - Product Portfolio development - Integration in the same field
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Nothing such.
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Puzzle solving aptitude, Skills to organise and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Communication skills	Lots of temperament, patience, public dealing and wisdom

Tarot card reader

(Total Participant-1)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1
	Age	43
	Qualifications	BA in textiles
	Present occupation/profession	Tarot card reader and numerologist
	Competitive exam	Yes ...it was an online test and a few assignments that I need to complete.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	I just love my work. My purpose is to help women to become a better version of themselves.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	People have myths that Tarot readers can read our minds and it's evil and we do some black magic...
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I wake up at 5:30 am My working hrs are from 12noon to 5 pm I Take classes at night related to numerology.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	I want to be a designer.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	I just get inclined towards the same.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	It was not easy for me ... I was not a very tech-friendly person ..so creating posts and videos was one of my biggest blocks but soon I overcame it.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes. Because with every challenge you learn something.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	It depends on the consistency of the owner. You can do freelance or startup or join any app to provide your services.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Self-care, introspection, meditation, and intuition

Teacher

(Total Participant-15)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	42	36
	Qualifications	PhD	Postgraduate
	Present occupation/profession	Teacher	Teacher
	Competitive exam	SLET/NET/STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION/ UPSC - CDS	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Zero stress	I feel like whatever knowledge I have, is equally distributed to other students for their bright future
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	NA	The ones you go to other classes are not in further contact to get more knowledge with me
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I keep perfect control of my schedule	Spend more and more of your study time at night hours when no one is there to disturb you
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	No goals, middle-class student horn in the 1980's	To become a doctor to help the poor and needy
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Frankly, my father pushed me into the profession and I am really thankful to him	Family conditions nothing else. Otherwise, I would have been a doctor only
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	I liked to read. So faced no challenge	The support of a good guide.. mentor
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	I still enjoy my work and studies...don't take it as any challenge	Not exactly
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	I could earn a lot. And only that makes sense	To teach students at the college level
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Time to explore areas of interest	Intellectual satisfaction is the opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	I get time for myself	To get a deep knowledge of several different brains
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Keep yourself updated else get washed off from the system	Almost all mentioned above

Identifiers	Participant Number	3	4
	Age	45	27
	Qualifications	M.Sc. B.Ed	BSc (Medical) B. Ed
	Present occupation/profession	Teacher	Tutor
	Competitive exam		Central teaching eligibility test (CTET) Punjab teaching eligibility test (PTET)
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	To give knowledge	With continuing age and experience I found my love in teaching and how it helps in learning throughout your life.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Work pressure	The nonseriousness of Government towards the policies of students' education
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	School job time: 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.	I do yoga asana and pranayam in the morning And provide tuition on all science subjects to students from 6 to 12 classes in different batches 6 days a week. And do my preparations for other competitive exams also.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Engineer	To have a good financially stable job where I can have my own personal space and time.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Passion about the subject	I was inspired by my physics teacher Mr. Deepak Salgotra His way of teaching science and how he encourages every student without any biases made me decide to be a good teacher But for this, I should and I must first become a good student Only a good student can become a good teacher.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Good teachers	There were no hard challenges I faced But there were some subjects which were new to me. So, it took a little bit of time to master those subjects.
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes, those challenges help me understand the subjects better and thus helped me crack all three exams.
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	To be a principal	There are opportunities for becoming A government teacher in Punjab up to 12 class Central teaching government job in any state Teaching in army schools and KV schools
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Impactful position, Fame, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Love challenges	Interaction with students, listening to their side of stories motivates me more to do good in my job and provide my students the nest
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating, and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Improvisation	For a good teacher good communication is the key for students to open up to you with their problems.

Identifiers	Participant Number	5	6
	Age	47	39
	Qualifications	MA, B. Ed	MSc maths and MCA
	Present occupation/profession	Secondary School Teacher	Teacher and daycare owner
	Competitive exam	B.Ed
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Working hours, ability to influence the young generation with your knowledge and experience	Teaching kids, finding different ways to explain things in a playful manner, and getting awestruck daily by each kid’s way of thinking and intelligence.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Standing for long hours, speaking loudly for a long time, less pay, no growth	Too much physical work
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Our day starts early when by 7:00 you need to show up at school after completing your household chores. Then teaching till 2:00 PM. Preparing question papers, and notes, and replying to students' calls and messages. Answerable for Board result	Waking up early at 4:30 meditation cooking breakfast and lunch clean bath and pooja and then getting ready for the day.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Pilot	Architect
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Work-family life balance	Love of teaching
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	None	Tight budget and health issues
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Nope	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Strive to get into a government job	Learn more and grow the daycare
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Networking, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		Meeting and talking to kids
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Patience	Kindness, openness in heart, little ego

Identifiers	Participant Number	7	8
	Age	46	43
	Qualifications	PGDBM, MA (English), B.Ed.	B.A. Geography (Honours); M.A. English, B.Ed.
	Present occupation/profession	Teacher	PRINCIPAL (CISCE AFFILIATED SCHOOL)
	Competitive exam	B.Ed., CTET	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Unending learning	Chance to make an impact on the minds of young people
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Changing attitude of parents towards education and teacher	I like everything about my job
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	It is hectic as it needs a lot of planning and reinforcement after execution. The body may be at rest but the mind is at work all the time.	The working hours are from 6.00 am to 2.00 pm. I look into the management and admin of the school apart from teaching.
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Not specific. Wanted to be considered a part of an educated and learned society	To be an educationist
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	It was an accidental career that with the passage of time has become a passion.	My passion for teaching.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Being an expert in the subject (English Language) it did not reflect in my Resume that I was apt to teach it.	Red-Tapism
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	YES	Beyond doubt
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Even after retirement, one can involve oneself in providing guidance in the way of private coaching	Limitless. When you are a teacher you have to constantly keep yourself updated with the latest trends in the field of education. One has to attend many courses/ training sessions to keep abreast with the education policies.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	A sense of contentment and pride seeing the students taught by you growing.	Respect and love earned from students
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Empathy and Affection (Not skill sets but personality traits)	Oratory skills

Identifiers	Participant Number	9	10
	Age	52 years	40
	Qualifications	M. A. (English), B. Ed.	PG in Information Technology
	Present occupation/profession	Assistant Teacher	Teacher
	Competitive exam	B. Ed.	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Imparting knowledge through teaching	To impart knowledge to students
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Nothing	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	I prepare myself very well before I go to teach the students.	To prepare myself well before going to the students
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To be a lecturer in a degree college.	To join public services
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Passion for teaching and gaining knowledge through it.	To make a positive impact on students
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Lack of proper guidance	Nothing much
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	No	Yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Immense opportunities. We can reach the height of the sky.	It will improve my skills.
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Impactful position, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Interest in physical activities, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	11	12
	Age	35	43
	Qualifications	B. Sc, B. Ed	Ph. D
	Present occupation/profession	Assistant Teacher	Teaching
	Competitive exam	N/A	NA
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Working environment	Interaction with young students
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	N/A	Nothing
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Wake up early, do a few minutes of meditation then prepare myself for school.	Teaching and guiding students
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	To work in a peaceful environment	Doing research
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	The working environment	I liked it when I started teaching
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	N/A	NA
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	N/A	NA
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	N/A	You can become vice chancellor
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Peace of mind
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Skills to organize and manage	Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?

Identifiers	Participant Number	13	14	15
	Age	32	59+	43
	Qualifications	B.Sc.(H) Chemistry	M.Sc. M.Ed.	BSc (H), M. Ed
	Present occupation/profession	Teaching	Teaching	Teacher
	Competitive exam	No	Entrance test to qualify for B.Ed. from CIE, Delhi University.	B Ed entrance
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Daily interaction with children	Interaction with young learners.	It is very satisfying to see the students learn and grow.
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Other work apart from teaching	Work not related to teaching.	nothing in particular but at times the expectations of parents (from both the teacher and the taught) are too unrealistic and demanding.
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	The day at work starts with taking classes. The free time we get goes into notebook checking. Very often we carry the work home and spare at least 2 extra hours.	Strenuous teaching classes with around 6 hours, followed by homework like checking notebooks, answer sheets and assignments, preparing question papers etc.	1. Getting up early to prepare breakfast and lunch for my family. 2. Attend School (7 hours of teaching and learning) 3. Rest for an hour an hour 4. Completing daily chores (cooking etc till 7 PM) 5 Me time (family time, reading, exercise, shopping)
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Teaching	Research work	To be known as a kind and proficient teacher.
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Family situations	Parental preference	My love for teaching and special connection with the children.
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Nil	Dealing with different sets of organizations	Creating the right balance between family and academics
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Na	Yes, in a way.	yes
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Negligible	To get administrative posts.	Not much
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Financial security, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention	Na	Getting recognition from the students after long years	A highly respected and well-paid job
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Love for nature, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?	Na	Patience, dealing with young learners with different learners.	One must exhibit excellent PR skills

Theatre Artist

(Total Participant-2)

Identifiers	Participant Number	1	2
	Age	51	49
	Qualifications	MSW, LLB, Theatre Appreciation Course	Graduate, PG - NSD
	Present occupation/profession	NSD EMPLOYEE	Theatre Practitioner - Self-employed
	Competitive exam	Open Interview	No
Likes and Dislikes	What do you like about your occupation/profession?	Day-to-day Interaction with Creative People	Theatre is a field of culture!
Likes and Dislikes	What do you dislike about your occupation/profession?	Deal with administrative issues with highly emotional people	The nonavailability of jobs and opportunities
Daily Schedule	Daily Schedule	Management, Coordination, Leadership, a lot of paperwork, decision making, convening meetings, minutes recording, implementation, supervision of subordinates etc	Workout for physical and mental well-being- studies, paperwork, rehearsals, shows, seminars!
Career Goals	What was your career goal as a student?	Administrative Job profile	Did not have any specific goal
Career Goals	What made you decide to opt for the present career?	Happened in a natural course	My talent
Challenges	What were the challenges faced by you during the preparation?	Financial and guidance levels	Lots of pressure from society not to take up this profession
Challenges	Do you feel that the challenges were worth the effort?	Yes	Yes but it could have been better
Opportunities	What are the opportunities for further growth in your occupation/career?	Not much	Depends on self-efforts
	What does your profession/occupation offer you?	Financial security, Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives	Networking, Impactful position, Power and Prestige, Fame, Intellectual satisfaction, Opportunity to create a difference in other's lives, Time to explore areas of interest
	Any other benefits of your occupation/profession you would like to mention		No
Skills	What is the requisite skill set required for success in your occupation/profession?	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude	Linguistic intelligence, Creativity, Inter-personal intelligence, Interest in physical activities, Love for nature, Puzzle solving aptitude, Debating and articulatory skills, Skills to organize and manage, Legal interpretation skills, Quantitative and mathematical aptitude
Skills	Any other requisite skill set you would like to mention?		Linguistic skills

Few observations

Age profile of participants

The average age of the participants in the current survey is around 35 years. The age of the participants is represented by the following diagram:

Essential skill set

The following chart gives a bird’s eye view of the skills required:

We can see that organization and management skills, and inter-personal intelligence are the two most sought-after skills in different professions/occupations. That’s why students are encouraged to take part in different activities where they work in teams and learn the skills to organize and manage.

Present career vs initial career goal

During the survey of the students, many students were found confused regarding career choices on account of lack of correlation between current education and future career opportunities. There are serious concerns about whether the career ambition of a student at present will necessarily result in the desired profession in the future. A small empirical analysis of the responses submitted by the participants in different professions/occupations showed the following results:

It shows that 39% of the participants ended up with their chosen career option as a student, while 32% ended up in a different career and 29% were not sure about their career option as a student.

Steps on other issues emerging out of surveys

This book on career guidance is a result of many steps that have been taken by the team. It has also taken many steps to address multiple concerns of the kids which can be put in nutshell as below:

a) A book named “Why Worry, Let Us Explore and Have Fun” was compiled to address the issue of anxieties and fears among the kids. The book tries to explain that the primary reason behind anxiety is our limited understanding of the world.

b) This book explains that we continue to stay inside our limited well. It tells us that we do not pay attention to so many things around us. As we pay attention to things such as the cosmic and quantum world, the world deep inside the oceans, and what happens inside our brains, we start appreciating the wideness of this world. We start coming out of our limited well to appreciate the different abilities nature has given us.

c) It also discusses some practical methods to develop mindfulness in daily living. We need to start with the logic. Our logic operates based on the knowledge we have. As we make efforts to know more and more, our logic also gets refined. Similarly, we are quite unaware of many of our emotions. As we develop an awareness of these emotions, we start understanding emotions and behavior in an emotionally intelligent manner. Similarly, we have very little awareness of our unconscious mind, and the more we explore that, the more we gain awareness of it. In the absence of awareness of the unconscious mind, it keeps driving our decisions without us being aware of it. As we gain awareness of the unconscious mind, we gain greater insights into our psyche. Slowly, our daily activities get more and more driven by awareness. Such awareness about the well, helps us realize the limitations of the well and make efforts to come out of the well.

d) The link of the book is as follows:

https://vipulagarwalca.blogspot.com/2023/07/why-worry-let-us-explore-be-happy.html

e) The book is also available in Hindi and the link of the Hindi book is as follows:

https://vipulagarwalca.blogspot.com/2023/07/blog-post.html

f) The next step in the process was the book “Practicing Mindfulness”. This book explains the deeper aspects of mindfulness. The book tries to explain mindfulness with the example of the immunity system. We keep facing different problems in life just like suffering from different diseases. We keep trying to fix these problems by setting one or the other ambition or trying to find one or the other support system. That is like looking for medicines, anti-biotics, and other treatments. However, we need to work on our immunity. If we want to live longer and healthier.

g) Similarly, we face many problems in life and keep looking for temporary solutions to the problems. However, we need to work on mindfulness to be aware of the reality. The book explains different ways and means through which, we may work on mindfulness.

h) The book is available at the following link:

https://vipulagarwalca.blogspot.com/2023/07/practicing-mindfulness.html

i) The next book in the series was a book on “Fears, Ambitions and Dreams”. This book tries to explain the journey of human beings as the journey of a seed. A seed while inside its shell feels protected. However, it is full of possibilities and in order to explore those possibilities, it will have to come out of the shell. Most of the human beings remain inside their shell throughout their lives and the fears of different things keep driving their lives. Fear has a functional utility, however, it needs to be kept in the right place. We wear shoes on our feet to protect the feet from being hurt. We do not keep the shoes on our heads. Similarly, fear has a functional role so long as it protects us from being hurt. However, we make many mental stories around the fears, and slowly fear starts driving our lives consciously or unconsciously.

j) This book further explains that when sown into the soil, the seed starts developing roots to gain strength. That is what most of us do. We develop different ambitions to gain strength. However, ambitions bring restlessness. It is because of the simple reason that we are not aware of the world outside the well. We are still inside our limited world and become restless as soon as we realize that things are not going our way. We start feeling as if we have been a failure. Our limited awareness makes us blind to the infinite possibilities that exist outside the well.

k) It is when the seed comes out of the soil and starts interacting with the sun and the air directly, it feels fulfilled. Similarly, when we come out of the well we dwell in, we connect to the wider reality. We realize the limitations of the life inside the well and with this realization, our fears and ambitions lose their grip. As we connect to the wider, the limited loses its value and accordingly, we get free of our fears and anxieties. The realization of the wider helps us realize the joy of the journey and we start working in a state of “flow” where we slowly lose the sense of time while working due to the sheer joy of the journey. That’s a fulfilling experience because the whole of the being is in the present moment.

l) The book is available at the following link

https://observationwithawareness.blogspot.com/2024/05/fears-ambitions-and-dreams.html

Conclusion

A career by its dictionary means an occupation/profession undertaken by a person for a significant period of his life. It provides him with opportunities for growth. Simply going by the meaning, a career needs to be fulfilling since significant portion of productive life of a person is spent in pursuit of the career. So, it is definitely more than bread and butter. However, in a country like India with limited resources and steep competition, career choices have been reduced as means of livelihood only. This not only curtails the quality of life, but also results in suppression of our growth as a human being.

So, while career can simply mean a vocation, or employment, the true career choice is made when it reflects our calling. Career choice as a calling is what makes one feel that life is meaningful. It helps us live a purposeful life. Career choices are sustainable when it results in a chosen way of life. We hope that the book will provide the much-needed information about different career options to the students in an authentic way. The book covers quite many participants belonging to a wide variety of professions/occupations. Reading their inputs will help the students making informed decisions about their career options. We wish the students all the best for making best informed choices of their career so that their careers help them living a meaningful life.

Acknowledgments

Sincere thanks to all the participants who spent their valuable time to fill the Google form to provide their valuable input. Their guidance will be quite useful for the students and will help them make informed choices for their careers.

This book is a compilation of the responses to a Google form received from different participants and the views expressed are their personal views. perceptions of different people about different career options may be quite different. Therefore, students and parents may make their own informed decisions about different career options.

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