Aakanksha Devi, Apr 24, 2012 :
PASSION RULES
Breaking away from the traditional
expectation of being doctors, lawyers, engineers or even businessmen, several
youngsters are taking the road less travelled in terms of their career.
Alternate careers like acting, film-making,
music and even the risky scuba diving are becoming the norm with the youth of
today. Despite being educated in the usual fields of arts, sciences or
commerce, these youngsters choose to pursue their passion and convert their
dream careers into real ones.
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| Rohin Unvalla |
Rohin Unvalla, a BCom graduate from the
City, gleefully broke away from the business sector to take up a course in
scuba diving. “I just love the water. Swimming and diving make me happy.
Business wasn’t something I disliked but it
was far down on my list of hobbies. In fact before this, I was a professional
dance instructor,” he says.
Now almost three years later, Rohin works
with the coast guard in the Andamans and is a familiar face on the rescue
squads on the Indian coastline. “It’s just something I had to do for myself. It
gives me a feeling of unbelievable elation,” says the diver.
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| Mario Jerome |
But perhaps it isn’t only passion that
fuels these career changes. With an MSc in Bioscience from Leeds University
“I wasn’t very happy with the remuneration
and more importantly the type of work. So I started to spend more time on
working with a production house which was more fulfilling,” he says. He now
heads the business and planning department of a Bangalore-based production
house and sometimes, gives creative inputs too.
“I am a people’s person and this job is
perfect for me. I speak with people and also learn the tricks of the trade when
it comes to film-making. I miss the sciences sometimes but this suits my
personality and my balance book better,” he says.
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| Sudhanva Atri |
Parents too seem to have eased up on their
children. Hardly a few years ago, parents lived their failed dreams through
their offspring, giving the youngsters little, if any, freedom at all in
choosing their careers. Manorama Ramesh says that initially, only she wholeheartedly
supported her son Sudhanva’s desire to become a photographer, but her husband
soon came around.
“I have nothing but pride and respect for
my son. It’s important that he does what he wants. As parents, we gave our
opinions but we never forced them on our children,” says the proud mother.
Sudhanva believes that doing what he truly
loved gave him more inspiration to excel than doing something that he just
happened to be good at. “There’s nothing like being so close to nature and
capturing moments that I’ll never see again. It’s like living a
dream...actually I am living my dream,” he chuckles.
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| Akhil Iyer |
Akhil Iyer is another youngster who gave up
being a brilliant computer engineer to pursue his childhood dream of being an
actor and model. “I aced my exams but being on stage gives me another high
altogether,” he confesses.
When asked if he found it hard at times, he
quickly pips in that it was difficult almost all the time. “It’s a constant
uphill climb. I don’t know when I’ll get a script or a shoot. Most times I
don’t even know what I’m endorsing until I’m at the shoot.
But I wouldn’t trade anything for the
satisfaction of knowing that I did what I truly wanted to do,” he says.
So it seems that no matter how hard or
unstable the career path may be, this generation has set sight on slightly
different horizons. And there’s surely no stopping them from turning their
dreams into reality.
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