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There's no hurry to choose career
By Megan Liu |
September 28, 2011, Wednesday
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FUTURE. It's a word that terrifies high school students worldwide. From when we could barely distinguish our toes from a pacifier, we had aspiring hopes to become an astronaut, a movie star, or my own personal favorite, a royal princess. In fact, we were filled to the brim with career choices that it shocks me how many of us are still uncertain about 10 years down the road.
So what dissolves our childhood dreams? Reality. Often, the line between pursuing our interests and paying the bills becomes too hazardous to cross and we are doomed to be unhappy with our jobs, like 50 percent of most Americans as surveys show. The world is volatile, with the recent boom in technological advances, environmental awareness and growing world powers; the job industry is constantly changing. In an ideal world, we should be able to pursue what we love while making millions; on Earth, reality has a funny sense of humor.
Choosing your career is not a simple concept; it's a decision that changes your life. With this verdict, you are praised if you're a chief executive of JP Morgan or scorned if you flip burgers at the nearest McDonalds. It becomes your exterior image, your social label for the rest of your life. Yeah, no pressure.
Life isn't perfect. Being in the process of choosing my career makes me want to shrink a couple of feet, stomp around as loud as I can, and let out an ear splitting scream in frustration. It's an inner struggle. Nobody knows who we're going to be 30 years from now, unless someone invents a time machine (any takers?).
Honestly, I don't know what my future career is, and when I do decide before graduation, it might change in the future. For now, I'm going to find out what I'm good at and hopefully achieve that perfect balance between a source of income, thirst for knowledge, and my passion.
So what do you want to be when you grow up? For now, let's just say that I'm going to be president.
(Megan Liu, right, is Year 12 student at Dulwich College Shanghai)
So what dissolves our childhood dreams? Reality. Often, the line between pursuing our interests and paying the bills becomes too hazardous to cross and we are doomed to be unhappy with our jobs, like 50 percent of most Americans as surveys show. The world is volatile, with the recent boom in technological advances, environmental awareness and growing world powers; the job industry is constantly changing. In an ideal world, we should be able to pursue what we love while making millions; on Earth, reality has a funny sense of humor.
Choosing your career is not a simple concept; it's a decision that changes your life. With this verdict, you are praised if you're a chief executive of JP Morgan or scorned if you flip burgers at the nearest McDonalds. It becomes your exterior image, your social label for the rest of your life. Yeah, no pressure.
Life isn't perfect. Being in the process of choosing my career makes me want to shrink a couple of feet, stomp around as loud as I can, and let out an ear splitting scream in frustration. It's an inner struggle. Nobody knows who we're going to be 30 years from now, unless someone invents a time machine (any takers?).
Honestly, I don't know what my future career is, and when I do decide before graduation, it might change in the future. For now, I'm going to find out what I'm good at and hopefully achieve that perfect balance between a source of income, thirst for knowledge, and my passion.
So what do you want to be when you grow up? For now, let's just say that I'm going to be president.
(Megan Liu, right, is Year 12 student at Dulwich College Shanghai)
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