The author's view that "Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition" is extremely convincing and logically sound.I strongly agree with the author's claim that budding young people and students should set sight on practically feasible and technically viable goals along with sufficient time.This will enable the youngsters to have a strong and strategic plan before them which will enable them to assess themselves from time to time and thereby correct their mistakes then and there.
Right from our childhood, everyone of us would have dreamt of achieving something later on in our lives and would have have worked towards the goal until a certain point in our life.This is the critical juncture where we stop and tend to analyze the options that are present before us. We then make decisions based on our analysis.For example, studying in India, the country where "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" seems to be the name of the game in all nook and corners of the vast land of late, professional students irrespective of their academic background are being absorbed into the huge consultancy firms in large numbers. These jobs are high paying jobs taking into account the absence of experience in the freshers. So most students find this an attractive offer and take it up forgetting the earlier ambitions and dreams in order to seek immediate fame and recognition.
Nowadays, with the emergence of multitudes of well paying career oppurtunities for young students and professionals, the possibility of striking gold immediately by walking the wornout path like everyone else does play in the minds of these youngsters.Either due to financial necessity or due to the possiblity of success with limited knowledge, students get attracted towards these types of flashy offers.They fail to notice that these