Choosing a career is indeed a tough task. There are so many suggestion and options tha one feels confuse. Career councillors advice one to choose a career in which one is interest. Write an article in 150-200 words on choice of career
The task of choosing a career is very important and difficult. Every parent, when his child arrives at the secondary stage of school education, begins to worry about the career that the latter is going to follow. Every parent fondly believes that his child is destined for an exceptional career.
The truth, however, is quite different. In nine cases out of ten, it is impossible to tell while a child is at school, what parti?cular occupation will most suit his nature and capacity, and for many of us quite a number of occupations will suit quite as well as another.
Let us first dispose of children who are exceptionally endowed, the geniuses. Of course a genius depends upon opportunities like every other child, but even if the circumstances in which he is born are not favorable to him, he will by mere force of will, and hard work, win his way to that position in life to which his abilities entitle him. Take the case of Charles Dickens. He started life by sticking labels on gum bottles, and the circumstances under which he was born were enough to crush many men, yet he came to be one of the greatest literary figures of the nineteenth century. Lord Reading, before he became Viceroy of India, was a sailor, a stock exchange broker, a solicitor, and a politician. Genius will chalk out a career for itself and force its way to the occupation that suits it best. So the parent who thinks that his child is a genius does not need to worry about him.
For others, the ordinary children, careers are of two types?the secure and the insecure. The secure careers are those in which a man starts with a fixed salary, progresses with regular Incre?ments, and ends up with a pension or provident fund deposit at a certain age. The prizes in such careers are few, but so are the risks and many people prefer to have a low-paid job which is secure to the dangers and glories of an independent profession. Some people go into these secure jobs, not because they cannot afford to take any risks, but because they are bent upon doing some literary or scientific work, and cannot find the leisure for doing that, with?out an assured competency. But such people are few. Included in the secure careers are the Indian Administrative Service, Banking, Insurance and Teaching.
For children with the adventurous impulses strongly deve?loped, there opens out the broad highway of commerce or the pro?fessions, such as Law or Medicine. In these, everything depends upon the individual.
It is best for those who want to go into independent profes?sions to stick to them to the end. It is a temptation difficult to resist for a young man who is starting life, let us say as a doctor, not to accept a job in a druggist?s concern, or as a physician in a small almshouse, or reformatory. In these jobs the employment is snug and easy, with a comfortable living and a pretty salary. The first drawback of such positions is that they take away the most precious years of a man's life and let slip chances which can never be recalled of gaining a firm footing in the profession. And more?over, such positions can never be depended on longer than those in power find it their interest to keep them so. Employers in private institutions are social demagogues and most often unscrupulous opportunists. Such employments retard one's progress and some?times give one a second rate reputation that is hard to outlive.
The truth, however, is quite different. In nine cases out of ten, it is impossible to tell while a child is at school, what parti?cular occupation will most suit his nature and capacity, and for many of us quite a number of occupations will suit quite as well as another.
Let us first dispose of children who are exceptionally endowed, the geniuses. Of course a genius depends upon opportunities like every other child, but even if the circumstances in which he is born are not favorable to him, he will by mere force of will, and hard work, win his way to that position in life to which his abilities entitle him. Take the case of Charles Dickens. He started life by sticking labels on gum bottles, and the circumstances under which he was born were enough to crush many men, yet he came to be one of the greatest literary figures of the nineteenth century. Lord Reading, before he became Viceroy of India, was a sailor, a stock exchange broker, a solicitor, and a politician. Genius will chalk out a career for itself and force its way to the occupation that suits it best. So the parent who thinks that his child is a genius does not need to worry about him.
For others, the ordinary children, careers are of two types?the secure and the insecure. The secure careers are those in which a man starts with a fixed salary, progresses with regular Incre?ments, and ends up with a pension or provident fund deposit at a certain age. The prizes in such careers are few, but so are the risks and many people prefer to have a low-paid job which is secure to the dangers and glories of an independent profession. Some people go into these secure jobs, not because they cannot afford to take any risks, but because they are bent upon doing some literary or scientific work, and cannot find the leisure for doing that, with?out an assured competency. But such people are few. Included in the secure careers are the Indian Administrative Service, Banking, Insurance and Teaching.
For children with the adventurous impulses strongly deve?loped, there opens out the broad highway of commerce or the pro?fessions, such as Law or Medicine. In these, everything depends upon the individual.
It is best for those who want to go into independent profes?sions to stick to them to the end. It is a temptation difficult to resist for a young man who is starting life, let us say as a doctor, not to accept a job in a druggist?s concern, or as a physician in a small almshouse, or reformatory. In these jobs the employment is snug and easy, with a comfortable living and a pretty salary. The first drawback of such positions is that they take away the most precious years of a man's life and let slip chances which can never be recalled of gaining a firm footing in the profession. And more?over, such positions can never be depended on longer than those in power find it their interest to keep them so. Employers in private institutions are social demagogues and most often unscrupulous opportunists. Such employments retard one's progress and some?times give one a second rate reputation that is hard to outlive.