Freedom of education: Welcome the plethora of new career options

Since time immemorial, the country's education system has warranted students to blindly enroll in one of the traditional streams— arts, science, or trade — for a bachelor's degree, unless they opted for engineering or medicine, of course. If they really want to work later on in the profession is not at all a concern. According to counsellors, an education is a security for the future, something to fall back on, a thought that most parents have voiced to their children. Actor Kriti Sanon told us that her parents were supportive of the idea of her pursuing her Bollywood dreams, so far as she completed her engineering.

With a plethora of new career options available across channels over the past few years, millennials have had the courage to take the opportunity to opt out of this tradition, to follow a passion they feel they're good at, and they can make it. It is a deliberate decision to make it with only hard work, not a crazy leap of faith.

Ajey Nagar, a 19-year-old YouTuber whose CarryMinati channel now boasts nearly 7.5 million subscribers, started posting videos online in his teens, and figured he would leave if he crossed 50k subscribers by the time he was in Class 12.. "I remember I was preparing for my economics exam, when I reached 100k subscribers, and I just knew I did not want to pursue formal education any more. I went to my parents and told them I can't do it. They understood since they had seen me work dedicatedly towards my channel," he says. Today, considered one of the country's youngest social medial influencers, Nagar works hard on his content and technology skills.