Bachelors, are you qualified?

Me and Wifey were sitting in a garden talking about our careers...how we thought they should be, where they are and what will we do next? The topic switched over to the qualifications that we had (Bachelor's and Master's degree)
Wifey is a Masters in German language and I am a Bachelor's in Instrumentation Engineering. I asked her....Did you find that while pursuing a masters in German....that all your subjects were related only to the German language? Or were there any other subjects during your 2 years of masters when you felt that perhaps, you were only 'beating around the bush'?

Silly question, eh? Well, you might say that....because when you say 'Masters in German' it obviously does not mean that they are going to teach you algebra. Or teach you the french language?

Then I asked her whether it the same with the bachelors degree? (Her bachelors degree is in sanskrit). Did they teach you only sanskrit for all the 3 years of 'Bachelors degree in Sanskrit'?

If your memory can take you back to maybe your first year of Bachelors degree, you will start appreciating my question. In Instrumentation engineering for instance, first year was a revision of science. Applied physics, applied chemistry, maths.Other subjects were engineering drawing, engineering mechanics etc. Second year and Third year were all electronics,computers and Electrical....electronic devices and circuits, microprocessors, computer networks, Electrical technology etc.

By the time I was in the final year of our Engineering, I had almost forgotten that I was supposed to be specializing in a field called 'instrumentation'. There were subjects related to instrumentation in the last year, of course, but then these were again covering different areas of instrumentation....which in itself is a vast field !!

It seems almost obvious now, that I knew almost nothing of instrumentation when I joined a company as graduate engineer trainees.

The point I am trying to make is....when we say starting of education for a bachelor's degree......doesnt it mean that one is qualified enough to only learn what is related to your subject of specialization? After all, you have been through school, junior college where you do the common subjects anyway. Do you have to do post graduation to totally be in that subject? Is Bachelor's degree just a degree, where you get a stamp of being qualified in a field when you are actually only just familiar with it?

Unfocus and Focus.

So why is it that I havent written for sometime now? I asked myself and told my friend over email chat that I probably should write something, just to keep my thoughts posted and for the sake of my readers' (a very few of those actually) entertainment.
We had a 'big email chain' discussion over this. He told me that I probably have gotten into some sort of 'writer's block' where I fail to express myself.
Maybe, I am simply too tired of writing, as I write hundreds of official emails a day, being a team leader and co-ordinator on my job now.
Maybe its just that I am physically tired at 10 o'clock at night when I usually update my blog. But I dismissed all these cases. There cannot be a writer's block for loss of expression, as I am watching a lot of Frasier these days and the sophisticated talk of the Crane brothers only makes you want to throw heavy words and sentences and what better way to do it than to write a post? !! And then of the official mails which I write, even if I write real good explanatory emails, most of them are wasted anyway, because our client takes great pride in ignoring my emails !! And physical tiredness is non existent for me...I am proud to say that I am never really tired. You could wake me up at 3 am in the morning and take me for a jog and I could still manage it (as long as I want to do it !!)

Then came a different angle....were my posts only a way to pour out all my feelings onto 'The black and white'? Since the time I got married, the frequency of my posts became lesser and lesser. Was it because I am in love...so much so that I cannot see beyond being with my wife for as much time as possible, without chasing other things? Is it possible as R suggested that with a life so content, why do I need to write at all?
Does it mean that I am so satisfied with my life right now, that I cannot raise any questions, any topics? Am I so blinded by love, that all I can see is my girl (wife) and not observe and analyze the sometimes frustrating, sometimes amusing, sometimes surprising incidents that take place. Am I so focussed in love that I cannot focus on other topics?

I tried to tell my wife this....but she thinks I am just throwing a line to her !!
R thinks I shouldnt tell her while playing computer games, but the truth is I see her eye to eye while throwing these 'lines'. Anyway, I hope I write more after this post. Unfocus on love a bit and focus a bit on writing for sometime will be the key...and it wont be easy !!