Choosing a Career
Choosing
a career is like any other activity; it is best to work to a plan. Too many
people start looking for a specific job before thinking out their occupational
aims. It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what
your requirements are from a career. This involves taking a realistic view of
your strengths and weaknesses. You may think for example, that you would like a
job, which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a
sufficient reason if experience you already may have suggests that this is not
your strong point. On the other hand, you should remember that training would
equip you to do new things. A further point to consider is how far you will be
willing to do for a time things which you do not like knowing that they are
necessary to achieve your longer term objectives. Having thought carefully
about the sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set of
occupational requirement. In particular, you can answer to important questions.
First: what sort of life do you want to lead? For example, do you want to live
in the country or in the town? Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is
the size of your salary important? Do you want to put down roots or travel
widely? Second: what sort of work do you want to do? For example, do you like
working alone or with others? Does teaching people appeal to you? Do you want
to be an organizer of other people's activities? Do you want to develop new
ideas and initiate changes?
As
for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer. As my parents are engineers
they have made a great influence on my choice and I can say that this
profession runs the family. My choice of this occupation didn't come as a
sudden flash. I think that nowadays this profession is of great need and
importance to our country. It is my aim to be a qualified specialist and to
serve the interests of my country. To be a well-prepared engineer I should have
some important qualities: great capability persistence, knowledge of science
and, have course, and knowledge of foreign languages. In spite of these
arguments we mustn't forget about everybody's vacation. I think that my
facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my
work.
