When I finished college, all I wanted to do was to go and become "geeky" and work on the Linux Kernel. I came very close to it when I got a "First Day First Job" campus offer with Veritas.
Looking back at it, I can't help let of a big laugh. I was never good at anything closely related to systems. The two courses on Systems related stuff that I did - one in DU during undergrads - and the other in IITK during post grads were complete bombs, in the sense that I got almost my lowest marks of my entire college life. I had never even opened and looked at Kernel code, and almost never worked on Linux consistently. Still, I wanted to go write Kernel code. I guess it was just the extremely geeky effect it creates on you, when you are in college, to talk about systems. I still meet a lot of guys just out of college speaking the same tone.
Now, with about 2.5 years in the software industry, I have not written a line of Kernel Code and I still feel very satisfied. And a major part of the satisfaction comes in the fact that I have worked a good part of that time in Technology that addresses market efficiencies. Whats that? you may ask.
In a free market, every vendor of a product is free to sell his goods/services at whatever price he wishes to, provided he gets customers. As it happens, for something as commoditized as books, you get the same book at different prices from different vendors. Other factors such as location, service quality, merchant perception etc add up to allowing multiple prices to co exist. This is called market inefficiency.
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