IT Job Vs Manufacturing Job part 1

When i was younger (lets say 18) i always had the feeling that It was the best profession from me . I always wondered as to why it was so...

at that point in my life there were two places of work that i had seen..

One was the Bhilai Steel Plant.. the mega manufacturing set up where people (read engineers) worked in extreme almost in human conditions, which gave me a constant feeling of restlessness that i might have to end up working in a place like this...

Even as a kid i was more interested in the kind of work place i wanted to be in (later on i learnt abt the jargons of working environment, work culture and all the other nonsense which came to me as a package with my mba degree..!!) but ya i was always awed by the sheer scale of BSP , but didnt really aspire to work there...

The other was bank (wer my mom worked) .. Now that was one thing that really interested me from my childhood.. i used to look forward to my visits to the bank to pick mom home from there... I don't know when the interest for that waned becoz even during my engineering i was considering banking as an option more than an Engineering job... but somehow i didn't clear the bank PO test so that option was tossed out..

This was probably the time i was realizing that IT would be an ideal industry for me.. but these silly companies won't select me !!!!! Now i thought let do an MBA .. not to broaden my job prospects but to find a way to the elusive IT Job :) ...

well mba didnt teach me much except that i got a little more understanding regarding my career... even though me getting into Hero Honda was unexpected as i was desperate to get an IT job !!! anyways i think that was the best thing that had happened to me till now ... I saw that a manufacturing company needn't be a sweat shop (i mean i don't keep sweating due to the heat around :D ) . Fantastic environment to work in.. in a real business ,as the kidlams (its a mallu word for hotshots) i came in contact say !!

But 2.5 yrs later i am in Infosys... I dont have any regrets about either joining hero honda or leaving it to join infy...

people see things in different manners... How could you leave a Manufacturing Job to join an IT company... I never get the logic of people saying that... IT jobs are repetitive... boring.. nothing much to do...

CONTD.......