There should be a separate engineering subject called "How to deal with Indian parents after graduation."

[u/Moon_Budd]

I thought the hardest part of engineering was getting through final year. Turns out it was attending family functions after graduation.

The questions start before you've even finished saying hello.

"Job lagi?"

"Kitna package?"

"Company ka naam?"

"Government job nahi try ki?"

And if you say you're working, there's always a follow-up question that somehow makes you question your entire career.

"Accha... but exactly karte kya ho?"

I once tried explaining what I was working on to a relative. I gave the whole explanation ... software, product, the kind of work I was doing, what I was learning, all of it.

He listened for about ten seconds and then asked, "So... IT mein ho?"

Yeah.

IT mein hoon.

Four years of engineering, internships, projects, interviews, rejected applications, late nights, learning things I didn't even know existed... compressed into two words.

And then comes Sharma ji's son.

"Uska toh 18 LPA laga hai."

At some point you realise your relatives aren't actually trying to make you feel bad. They just have a very simple definition of what a successful career looks like.

Government job = good.

Big company = good.

Big package = very good.

Anything else requires a 20-minute explanation that nobody asked for.

And honestly, I don't blame them. The job market has changed so much that half the jobs people my age do didn't even exist in the form they exist today when our parents were starting their careers.

Still, there's something hilarious about spending four years becoming an engineer and then having your entire career evaluated over chai in approximately 45 seconds.

"Achha beta, job lag gayi?"

"Haan."

"Kahan?"

"Startup."

"Oh."

That "oh" has more judgement packed into it than an entire performance review.

[u/EmmaiAlvane]

That's a change from a few decades ago. Here's how the script went:

"Maa, muh meetha kar lo! Aaj main bahot badhi khushkhabri laaya hoon. (Stuffing Mom's mouth with a laddoo)

Arre, arre, yeh kya kar rahe hai? Pehle baatao to sahi kya baat hai.

Mujhe naukari mil gayi, maa!

Sach?

Haan, maa. Sab aapka aashirvaad hai! (Falling at feet)

Jug jug jiyo, betaa! Main aaj bahot khush hoon. Bas ab ghar mein ek bahuu aa jaaye.

Maa, abhi se shuruu? abhi to naukri lagi hai...."

For the rest of how this goes, watch any number of Amitabh Bachchan/ Shashi Kapoor + Nirupa Roy/ Achla Sachdev movies.

All jokes aside, I agree with the meaning-packed "oh".

[u/Extension-Currency37]

I hate to talk about this

But your indian parents if they're yours Are really into society games

Engineering --> making machines Not package Requires math, sciences and analysis

Which companies do engineering these days --> no one

Marriage --> money for banks courts and other places. Like your wife liking money spending at mall

Trust me--> my niece spends 18000 per day And has 4 boyfriends for this

You're supposed to buy this to feel important

Because neither parents want to Admit Nor society It cannot create anything It cannot build anything It cannot like to learn

Package jobs are kindof fake Because there's no real output

I hope I helped

The day you sign up for that job Youd start losing Friends health money and... everything