CAREER CHOICES IN LIFE

Life is all about choices. Many people say so or it is a fact that it is so. Making choices is a different experience for different people. Some find it easy to make a choice and stick to it while others take ages even to make the simplest of choices or decisions. Others make choices but never stick to them, making changes on the way and ending up taking up something that was of their least consideration.

Such choices include choosing a career, a life partner, an item to purchase, something to do or just a course to pursue in life. For instance, making a career choice is a particularly tiresome experience for some. Right from childhood, most of us have a career in mind that we hold on to. This career could have come into our minds in different ways. Such ways include the prestige accorded to it, a successful person that you look up to, suggestion from an individual or even just the intrigue of the career’s name. Most of our choices at such times include the high flying and high ranking careers such as medicine, engineering, piloting, management etc. Most of us at such times have a rough or no idea of what the career really involves or whether they are compatible with us.

Proceeding with life and many changes are bound to occur. Some more ‘appealing’ careers are met on the way, some which are completely strange. Our experiences with particular subjects end up changing or further increasing our chances of pursuing a particular course. Others find themselves failing in subjects that are in a way related to their chosen careers and passing in others. Therefore a condition for change of choice is set up. Engaging in extracurricular activities appeal more to some as they realize that one can make his/her talents a career and it must not necessarily be academically related. They find that careers are also found in sports, music and acting. Education to them thus is a way of bettering their talents in various fields.

More exposure to life and the range of choices increases. We come to find that engineering is not a single thing but a general name of a range of careers such as software, electrical, mechanical, aeronautical, environmental, geospatial, agricultural and even newly defined fields such as financial engineering. Similarly medicine is another group of several careers. The choice therefore needs to be specified. Our choices therefore in a way increase as we keep growing. For the lucky ones, their paths become clearer with time.

For high school students, a time comes when one is required to make degree course choices. Similarly, some find filling the forms an easy task. However others exist who find it a tasking thing to do. Many people will therefore start doing extensive research in a quest to discover their best paths. Actions such as reading books, searching internet sources, consulting people of different calibers, praying etc are taken in the hope that ultimately the preferences will be clear. Unfortunately, too much information tends to tag along confusion. In the end, the person becomes confused and even angered. Such a person might therefore make choices impulsively just for the sake of filling the form. Others depend on their feelings and instincts, choose the hot selling careers of the time, are influenced by people in their lives, make choices with a plan of changing them in the future and life continues.

Getting into university or any institute of higher learning and changes are bound to occur. Some continue with the search for the best path, others switch to courses they desire based on their experiences after completing high school. Further still, others are forced into doing some particular course based on their performance. With time, some find that they enjoy something they previously thought they would not, others dislike what they thought they would like but still due to circumstances and inability to change continue in whichever places they are. On the way, some gain financial independence, move to other schools especially abroad and continue making changes.

Within time, higher education comes to completion. Some find jobs while still in campus, others make groundbreaking inventions, find a job on their first application, venture into business or a whole different career path but the majority take time and energy to find a job. Many unexpected things happen, life continues until one leaves this world either having found their path or not. But one thing for sure is that one can make up his mind to enjoy whatever he is doing and might or might not discover his true path. No matter where you are don’t let your whole life be a pursuit of a specific thing. Make sure you enjoy every point of your life so that whether you find or fail to find that which you think is your place, you would have enjoyed your life. All the best as you seek your place.