As we grew up during our high school days in the 80s, the discussion on career choice was a simplistic one with 5 choices - 3 in professional career (engineering, medicine and chartered accountancy) , 1 in academic career (do a graduation in general stream to become a school or college teacher or in government services, if you get lucky) and finally an option for non academics (try to do something which can give you a survival income with not much aspiration). This may sound rude, however, the reality was closer to this in terms of categorization of individual students. Simplicity was the hallmark of career counselling through all of 80s and most of 90s. The new millennium started changing it all. Information Technology, dot com were new words added to career counselling parlance. From around 2015-16, the new coinage of terms with a suffix of 'tech' started appearing - edtech, fintech, adtech, hrtech, and so on. And a post-covid era in India started with a madness around "
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