This was a very interesting read for me. I had been there and if my understanding is correct there is a little fault in us too. And that being not knowing what we actually want. I have seen people with excellent knowledge about programming work in BPO while some idiot is going through the Google for getting the syntax and definitions. And the education system is whole another story..

One must drive himself to be better than where he is just like the fellow in the story. Although I wished he switched earlier.