Regular viewers of Seinfeld would possibly laugh right out of their chairs remembering Elaine mouth these lines. While this post has nothing to do with dog food or its taste or Elaine or Seinfeld, it does have a similarly irrelative question that crossed my mind browsing through the news this morning.
And the question is : Who works in banks these days?
This is a time when every other guy you know seems to be working in IT or something related to it. Mind well that it is not necessary to have a technical background to get a freshers job in any of the IT companies. Infact (surprise surprise) some companies actually run print ads asking specifically for people with non-technical backgrounds. Within all my friends on orkut I can only point out a few who do something radically different and I envy those guys for it. I would say it is safe to generalise that ours is a generation whose income is driven mostly by the IT boom and its widespread reach into even the smallest of corporations. Today the scene back home is such that straight out of school grads pocket jobs anywhere around the Rs. 25k per month mark working in an IT company. Anyone having such a good income can be easily considered financially stable and .. ahem .. marketable. Very unlike the generation of our parents. If you look at those folks, a very wide cross section of people they know would most probably be working in banks or some kind of a financially related institution. Naturally, at their time I'd assume, a bank job was considered to be a very good job. So, if 2 and 2 indeed make 4, yesterday's job in a bank is today's job in an IT company!
Which brings me back to my original question, who really works in banks these days?
Update: When I read the news earlier this morning there was something which said Citigroup was opening up more banking centres in India. By the time, I got to the end of writing this entry, news is they're actually cutting down on abt 15,000 (!) jobs.
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