Now it's a difficult and controversial question to answer.
It depends on which side of the fence you are.
As an IT professional myself ,I will try to be as honest as possible.
First of all, I must admit that the difference in salary structure between IT and other professions is quite big.The starting salary for a software engineer in a premier software company ranges between 2.5 L and 3.5 L pa. whereas the starting salary for a mechanical engineer or a chemical engineer lies between 1.0 and 2.0 L pa.
Also, the software industry offers a steep growth curve which other industries fail to offer.
A person with 3 years experience as a programmer can easily aspire for 5-6 L pa.
The same amount of experience in any other sector won't command such a high salary.
A Project Manager with an experience of 10 years can get anything between 15L and 20L pa in a big IT company .
On the other hand, if we compare MBAs and other marketing professionals to IT people, the salary levels of the former are the same or higher. Also, MBAs have a more dynamic work profile than IT professionals who are mostly confined to programming or project management.
Many software engineers go for MBA after a couple of years of work experience.
I think that being "pampered" is a personal character trait.I have seen young IT turks splurging money on booze, movies,bikes and girls as if there is no tomorrow.But I have also seen people with 7 figures income living very frugally and modestly.
To do justice with IT professionals, I must add that we work under tremendous pressure having to cope with unrealistic deadlines.This leads to various health problems at a very early stage in life.Sitting whole day and night infront of computers with no physical exercise brings lifestyle diseases like hypertension,diabetes and even heart attacks at a very young age.
So guys, IT profession is not all glamour as it seems from the outside.
As the old adage goes: "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence", the same applies to the IT sector.
Therefore my advice is: Whatever you are doing,whichever field you are working in, be proud of it and always believe that your industry is the best to work for.
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Well being an IT profesional, i know how it works here inside out. I have been in bangalore for about 4 years now... and things have been changing every 6 months.
I came to Bangalore in a period when IT was starting to get back on track after losing it in between. I have grown with the same. I have given my life to work and now am pretty satisfied with whatever i have got in this time.
I am surely suitably remunerated by my company and yeah some people might think that am over paid for my experience. But i totally endorse to your point that grass is greener on other side.
If someone will live with me for 24hrs he will get to know what pressure is all about and at the end of the day its YOU who has to judge whether u can handle it or not.
When i think from business stand point IT has large turnovers may be thats why salaries are high. And just to clarify the myth here not everybody is highly paid. If i remove the on-site money i guess there is not much of a difference in Salary to any growing sector. Thats unfortunate for India as IT is(read "was") only blooming.
Coming to the toll which body takes in the process... Umm i would say its defnitely not great to work for long hours, smoke and booze at the same time... and surely it will hit ya in long run...
Me being a non-smoker and no booze... but surely a workoholic... still a fit guy... Cuz i work out and keep myself toned.
So moral of the story is you have to be responsible enough to take care of your body and life... :)
So happy living!!!
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