In Search of Career Destiny A Teenager Perspective

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In Search of Career Destiny - A Teenager's Perspective

By: Shanjoy Mairembam *

Exam results are declared for 12th Standard and again the same old story of puzzles with regards to future of these students crops up again. This article will only discuss about the steps & guidelines a young teenager has to take with regards to career & personal life after clearing the 12th Standard. This article will also only talk about the underlying reasons of suggesting the choice, but each career paths after 12th standard will be discussed in upcoming articles.

Most parents would either tease or praise based on the score card of their wards. People will always wish the rank holders and tease the rest with inferiority attitude. Neither the students themselves nor the parents are interested in knowing beforehand what exactly should have been afforded to pass through the exams with flying colors.

Everyone is interested in the result, but, in fact, someone has to do the ground work for the result to be good. It is said true that surrounding environment makes the basis of the welfare of the young teenagers studying in schools. Good schools, good teachers, and, good educational coaching does help grooming young teenagers to excel in the academic exams.

Well, we would discuss things required before hand in another article. Now, we should think about how a young teenager ought to decide the future course of their career & life, so that there is effective utilization of self effort with respect to the actual capability of internal instinct.

Behold, Dear young teenagers, here are some facts to cheer up for you all. Not all toppers make up to the lists of dignitaries recognized in the society for their contributions to mankind. List of toppers in the exams are few and there are thousands who comprised the rest of the students.

So no need to feel sorry about that if one has indeed tried using the strength one has. To be a topper in exams is indeed a good feeling; but the more important criteria to justify one's worth is to verify self how much one has achieved success, while using how much percentage of self resource. Some students come out of well-groomed families and have had good education.

Now, the concept should be in such a new way like - whether We are unable to get quality education at schools or we are unable to get access to all those facilities for grooming students to be brilliant in academics, we will have to win the game with the effective utilization of resources around us and try to gather those we need somehow.

Yes, past academic performance does come for preview in future career struggle; but the world is changing very fast. It's now like - If you could win today irrespective of what you are yesterday; you are the undisputed winner till date. So, let's try to analyze the future how one is suggested to lead by today's teenagers.

The society, the industries, the government, the world, everything is going to be in the hand of Today's Teenagers. So, every teenager in schools should be proud of that very true reality that they are the Masters of the Future; and it should be taken as a knock-out tournament, where everyone will be decided on how well they can play when the time comes in future.

The so-called education that we all are receiving via, schools, college & universities; are just for gaining knowledge to be able to realize our self-worth. For living, we need three basics - food, shelter, clothes. One has to earn somehow and realize the three basics of livelihood. The society comprises of many aspects of job prospects to realize the same.

In fact, one does not need to formally undergo all such educational courses to become a billionaire or just be able to lead a comfortable life (not just the three basics of livelihood). But, undergoing a suitable educational course helps the individual to recognise the self worth to gain respect in the particular career and live with satisfaction.

As per the current education system, it is felt that after 12th standard, a teenager can be finally molded in a specific trait of livelihood. So, there come many diverged career aspects - Engineering, Medical, Legal, Nursing, Arm Forces, Arts, Literatures, etc.

The school authorities & parents should be sharing the future prospects while the young teenagers are undergoing classes in the schools. If anything has to be planned for future career path, each teenager should have gathered info - right from the first day of 11th standard, since the entrance exams of most of the professional courses cover questions from the syllabus of both 11th & 12th standards.

Getting good scores & being among the top ranks in the exam results of 12th board exam is a good achievement; but getting success in such exams is not fully worth unless one is able to get a decent job to earn livelihood in future, or create ideas to earn livelihood, or inspire self to excel in some traits to gain recognition in their professional lives. Studying just for the sake of formality i.e. other friends are also studying in schools or colleges do not make sense; and every teenager has to have time to think about the future.

Human life, as we can understand, has the average lifespan of 70-75, at present, instead of theoretical 100 years or so. And the period between 15-25 years are crucial for one's professional career & also for one's youthful lives. Whatever one has learned and gathered enough is what one is going to utilize for the remaining 50 plus years of life.

So, one has to balance both the aspects of life. The mind of teenagers are like warriors who fear nothing, and who is ready to go ahead any hurdles once decided on something, whether right or wrong from the perspective of future aspiration. Not just a teenager has to focus on the academic excellence but also the need to build up self personality to be able to stand up bold with head held high with dignity should be groomed.

Today's toppers seem to be a bit shy from social & leadership traits, because of the current theoretical education system. They seem to be more of robots programmed to execute some activities whose button is handled by some other individuals.

Technical skills & medals of getting among the toppers in academic exams hold no good unless, one develops one's personality to be able to speak up in front of the huge gathering of dignitaries, to be able to analyze & think the general concept in addition to the academic meaning of the various theories in books, to be able to realize the social responsibilities, and so on.

Being a topper just on getting good score in exams is not a sign of excellence & brilliant, but rather it is just a sign of good executive who just follow the guidelines. Anyone can be toppers in such exams if one studies smart - knowing the already available textbooks & notes and following a punctual time-table with examination tactics. But, the real exam is the life as how one has to go ahead.

So, teenagers should concentrate both on academic front and personal fronts, since, personal front can make or break the goal in the academic front. There needs a trade-off between the two aspects of life.

For a comfortable future, every teenager has to realize the basic need to groom self during the age span of 15-25 years. For a healthy future, one has to take care of good food & healthy habits. One needs to look for good friendly environment & inspiring culture to motivate for future career. If things are not okay today, every teenager has to create the same somehow with some plus & minus.

Every teenager needs to think of the reality that their parents are soon going to old enough to take care of them as they are in the age of 45-60. So, they too needs affectionate care from their wards and today's teenagers should keep these facts too while planning for the future professional career & personal lives.

As one grows up, life seems to be more complex than expected while being kids. Moreover, it looks like everything is just left to the teenagers to think and decide. Everyone needs guidance or info or at least good friend-circle to breathe comfortably to share thoughts.

Every teenager should speak up instead of compressing the issues & thoughts like the pressure inside the pressure cooker. Instead of blaming others, even our parents for everything, every teenager should try to find a way out to deal with issues or thoughts relating to personal life, professional life, and so on.

So, if not one's past is great, one can still making future bright if we don't loose fate on self. It is just that each & every teenager needs to find out some space & individuals to chat to understand their own instincts to guide for their future.

Lastly, a quote that worth reminding is - "The future belongs to those who believes in the beauty of their dreams".

Shanjoy Mairembam , a Software Engineer from Bangalore, contributes regularly to e-pao.net
He can be contacted at [email protected]
This article was webcasted on May 16th, 2006

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