Stuck At A Crossroads Career Or Education

What is wrong with the Indian education system?

Thinking.Science for intelligent ones.Commerce for “good in maths” students.Arts for weak students.Question papers.Bihar boards’ open cheating.Repeating the same questions from past papers. Leading to proliferation of “guidebooks” business.Clash of views.If your views don’t match with the teachers’, you won’t get desired marks.Long hauls.11000 UPSC aspirants on an average don’t make it in the interview. 2000 of them don’t find their place in the merit list. They have to go through the process again. They could have had easily filled any group B job.Mugging over understanding.“Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.”People writing XII boards mostly remember the solution of the question asked in their exam.Stickiness in thought process.Reforms are envisaged in 10 years. It takes 10 years to implement them.K. Kasturirangan to head panel on National Education Policy. He will suggest some fresh reforms. But alas, all those reforms will bite the dust.TSR Subramanian’s recommendations on Higher education are yet to be implemented.Last day hauls.“Ma’am told us these important topics. Learn these by heart. You will get good marks.”Sad part is that these persons really do top the exams.It leads to “Yes men” around teachers and professors.Vicious cycles.Intelligent—- Science—-Send to Kota—-Depressed—-Suicide.Commerce — Prepare for CA — Feels like not interested — ends up wasting precious time.Arts --Prepare for UPSC—not interested—- ends up wasting many years.Extraordinary delays.CBSE did some serious mistakes in this year’s results. Now, many students' marks are increasing. But college cut off won’t count those increased marks. These students miss the cutoffs of their favourite colleges.UPSC exams takes an year to complete the process. Many young years are drained into it.Things are beaten into the head.My friend’s sibling had started writing sentences. I asked him to write something. I asked him to write something in 5 different ways.He wrote the word “something” in five different fonts!When after few months, the teacher asked him to write something, he did the same. He was scolded by the teacher. He came to home crying.AImage: Don't Let Perfect Get In the Way of Progress.

I am stuck in my career. What can I do if I know lots of stuff, but I am not an expert in anything?

Most people who feel that they are afflicted by the "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none" syndrome do not realize that they are in fact experts in at least one thing. That's probably because they don't feel it.  Let's review what Eleanor Roosevelt had to say about this very human issue: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Henry Ford was a bit more candid about it:Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.And here's the beautiful Lauren Bacall's take on the matter:I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.Check out that look on her face. She knows she's an expert at something.It is important for experts to be able to present themselves as such. In this regard, communication is just as important as knowledge. You have to able to articulate whatever it is that you are an expert in. This is something that many Quora experts excel at. With this in mind, I took the liberty to edit your question and correct a few things such as typos, choice of verbal tense, subject-verb agreement, comma issues, etc. Whatever your strength is, make sure you are able to clearly communicate it.Look, I don't know the first thing about the technologies you are good at. Who is Ruby, and why is she on rails? That sounds uncomfortable... Anyway, you say: "I am not talented [enough] to become an expert." That's just not right, man; you are in your mid-20s and working in the intricate field of developing IT products. You have certainly accomplished more than I did at your age. Your bottom-line question is an inquiry about the career path you should follow or what to do if I were you. Out of all the skills you have, choose either the toughest one or the one you enjoy the most. Become an expert at it by means of learning, preparation and training. As Samuel Johnson said,"Knock the 't' off the can't." While you are at it, make sure you can clearly verbalize and write about what you are an expert at. I say you stay on your current career path, which seems to involve actually creating and developing things. Your next project should involve building or coding an internal app that boosts your confidence. This is paramount in the mortgage origination candidates I recruit for the top lenders in the U.S.; if they show up to the interview lacking confidence, they don't get the job.  I know this sounds tired and cliched, but you just have to believe in yourself. With all that said, I must add that I have a pretty good feeling about you, kid. I think you'll be ok.