The Choice of a Career

The need for a fair choice, How to choose a career, The guide lines, The aptitude, Qualifications, Fitness for the job, Physical and mental capability, Benefits

The choice of a career is a very difficult job. On this choice depends the success of failure of a young man’s future life. Therefore one should be very careful while choosing a career. Unfortunately there are no arrangements in our country to guide young boys and girls in this direction. They select a career at random, and then find it difficult to pull on with it. Sometimes circumstances compel them to undertake the first job that comes in their way, and thus, to make it a career for the whole life.
While choosing a career one should keep before him some guiding principles. Only such careers as are according to one’s taste, aptitude and abilities, both physical and mental, should be adopted. As we know, ‘work is worship’, and naturally you will be able to do a job in a better way if you have chosen it of your own accord. A job which is against your taste may hardly recite you as a career for life. While working at a job of one’s choice one feels pleasure and excitement. In such a career all the hidden qualities of one’s mind and body take an active part, and one does not feel fatigue or boredom. This is the secret of success in life. While making a choice for the future career, another consideration should be to see that the job is in accordance with one’s academic qualifications or training. Our school and colleges give no consideration to the aptitude of students while selecting the subjects of study. They do not realize the importance of this psychological fact that one has greater chances of success in the field of one’s own choice, than in those fields of study which have been thrust upon one from outside. This is the main reason of mass failures in our examinations. Therefore, students should be given a fair choice in the matter of selection of their subjects of study. They should select their subjects according to the career which they want to adopt after the completion of their education or training. Parents and teachers should guide their wards and provide facilities for this selection. The government too may do something by setting up ‘ guidance cells’, side by side with employment exchanges, in every city. People should be able to get guidance and expert advice regarding the choice of a career from these centers.
If guided properly, to their taste, and consequently, would give them greater chances of success. The Mental and physical abilities of a worker should be given due consideration, side by side with his willingness to work. All these things count and help in increasing the efficiency of worker. Thus, on a fair choice of career depends the success of one’s life.