Kaifee Anwer

Passion and Choosing Career

It’s a very common talk these days that you should do for which you are passionate. This generation uses it to justify, whatever they are doing. To fulfill their passion, they like to do anything. After some time, when you ask they say their passion has changed.

All the best selling inspirational books focus on it. Choose you career for which you feel the passion. Recently the movie 3 idiots have passed this message to all viewers. This is true that everyone should choose whatever he likes to do. This is also written that if you don’t choose whatever you like, you will never get success. But I could not find the definition of passion related to career. If anyone asks me, what you like to do. I will never say that I want to get up early in the morning and go to office. These books or movies never helped anyone to find his passion. So the question is how one should decide his passion. If someone has decided it, we don’t know whether it is wrong or right.

Today when you visit the any Engineering College, students has a lot of worries about placement. But no one bothered about education. 3 idiots also reveal the same message. I also agree with it. Still there is more than lacs of engineers are getting passed out every year in India. There is not more than 5% who has passion for Engineering. Every one has different passion. So can we choose our career what we like? Not only in career even in our social life, should we do the activities which I like. This generation is trying to choose their career, which they like. Many students want to choose sports or acting as a career. If anyone wants to suggest them, then they clearly show the resentment that doesn’t interfere in my personal life.

I listen this from various parents. This is true that the parents should not decide about their child’s career. The primary purpose of education is primarily to make a responsible human being, who knows the difference between right and wrong. The secondary purpose is to prepare for the livelihood. In India after secondary education, one has to decide his senior secondary education based on their career plan. At that time no one is mature enough to know, what he likes to do. Based on their 10^th marks and job market, the career option is chosen. This is the system which is applicable and beneficial for more than 99% students. This generation blames their parent for putting into the colleges. Because every one wants has a passion for other jobs, which need less study and hard work. If we count, there are 11 players in cricket team. 100 actors, 25 singers, 25 dancers etc. So what a parent should do? If every one is left to go for these careers, then how many will get a chance for his career?

I don’t say there is no Schin or Amitabh among us. But the passion should not be the criteria for choosing the career. The best way is to make our career as a passion, not passion as a career. Because every passion is not the career, but every career can be converted into passion.