What difficulties are you facing in choosinga career? pps

What difficulties are you facing in choosing
a career?

Almost every school leaver is confronted with a very
important question that is nearly impossible to answer:
The question of what to do next. As for me, I was bugged
by my plans for the future from the very moment I finished
my last examinations. In addition, there is also the
question of passing time during the few months of waiting
for my results. During this time, I had a choice of enjoying
myself or looking for a temporary job or even taking up an
interesting course, I did all three of them. Unfortunately I
was not successful in getting to a university, so I had to
enter the job market.

I had always desired to take up teaching as a career. First
of all I love children. Secondly I believe teachers are
important people as they groom the citizens of tomorrow.
As I grew older my exposure to the outside world has
made me believe that there are many other careers that
could interest me. I believe that I am facing the problem or
psychological changes that any teenager would be facing
during the period from childhood to adulthood.

I tried relief teaching during my holidays in search of the
teaching career. The experience I had was valuable as I
managed to grasp the duties, responsibilities and
challenges of a teacher. I discovered my lack of working
experience. Since I gathered quite a lot of information from
the short period of teaching, I decided that I could choose
any career by working on a temporary basis. The

successful stories of how some people started off doing
only odd jobs in beginning spurred me on. However this
does not seem possible in the present gloomy economic
situation. I also face of another problem where employers
are not too keen in employing job hoppers like me.

My third problem concerns professional skills. For instance
a secretary or computer programmer requires a certain
level of knowledge in the field of typing, filing, shorthand
and computer programming. These prerequisites can only
be achieved through comprehensive courses. My concern
is over which I should acquire and discover the abilities
inherent in me.

These are the problems I face in choosing a career like
other school leavers. I believe parents play an important
role in choosing a career by allowing the children to
expose themselves to part-time jobs. This way they can
narrow down their career choices more easily. Seminars,
talks or discussions on careers can also help.