January 17, 2004

Most of the high school graduates find themselves on the horns of a dilemma while selecting the right career. This indecision ultimately but unfortunately results in making a wrong choice. Due to family pressure, relatives’ perspectives and friends’ opinions, most of them go for careers of the hour offering high pay scales and perks.

Students, taking admission en masse, pursuing these careers, by the time of their graduation, find that the market has been changed or seriously saturated. Majority of these students can’t stand the competition; some who get through this proposition finally get burnt out. Only those survive who are endowed with the natural flair in the trade.

Why on earth do most of the people simply follow suit? Everybody wants to mint money, but when asked, they say that they are pursuing their dream-careers. This is hypocrisy. Worshiping the rising sun is a bad debt that one realizes when one has gone too far. There is no royal road to success.

We must delve into our personalities and discover our natural flair. Everyone is gifted with some kind of talent, and if we choose a career keeping our natural talents in mind, provided that we move heaven and earth, there is no reason for not being successful in the long run.

You must answer some of these questions before you choose a career, like, can you do it? Is there anything else that you can do better than this? What if your working hours will exceed twelve hours a day? Do you have something in yourself that will give you an edge over your competitors? Are you really going to enjoy your work?

How can one discover his or her aptitude? Simple! Probe into your personality. If you think that you are good at bargaining while you are shopping. If you think that you are a very good negotiator and you can convince your teacher that you deserve more marks. And if you think that you are quick-witted, and can handle bizarre dialogues single-handedly. Then guess what? Marketing and management are your trades. If mathematics has always been a piece of cake, you have a good memory and intelligence, then most probably engineering and accountancy are your fields. If you have a creative and artistic mind and you enjoy a pregnant imagination, then architecture, computer graphics and animations, fashion designing or literature may be the right choice.

Daniel Webster said, “There is always room at the top”. Every profession pays. And that depends upon the selection of a right career. Moreover, goal setting and planning are not enough. Good intentions must be put into action without hesitation. It is very important that one racks his or her brain when making such a colossal decision about choosing the right career.

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