A 9th or 10th grader does not go through life without strangers asking them about their future plans. We all have come across long-lost relatives who are way too eager to know our future careers. How do we answer the question if we ourselves don’t know the answer?
I am not a fortune teller. I don’t know my future. Do those relatives know their future?
I won’t wake up one day, and magically know I want to be a lawyer. It takes time.
Maybe one day I will become a pilot. Maybe, later on, I will realize that flying airplanes is not what I want to do. Maybe I will find a passion for singing and become a singer.
My point is that there are innumerable possibilities. We cannot decide our future overnight. We need to discover our likes, dislikes, and interests to find the best-suited career. This is best said by Katherine Whitehorn-“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
An actor, singer, teacher, astronaut, doctor, artist, dancer, professional athlete, among many others, were what we defined as suitable careers as young children. Although, subsequently, most of us had a reality check. Now, we know the existence of being a UI/UX expert, a marketing analyst, a personal trainer, a vice president of human resources, an influencer, or a blacksmith.
Even though there are about 1200 possible careers, an average Indian teenager knows only 20% of them. We need to know our options. Talk to parents, teachers, classmates, and most importantly to those professionals, whom we aspire to be one day. Try professional guidance but you must remember that 1200 is not the limit. We can create our career, a career that never existed before.
Finding an ideal career is like training for a sport. It takes time, effort, and perseverance;
albeit, in the end, it will all be worth it. Each one of us must always remember this quote so that we never regret the choices we make:
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." —Confucius
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