by Mariel

Created on: February 03, 2009   Last Updated: December 23, 2010

Teachers, parents and other adults tell you, as a child, when you need to start focusing on what it is that you will be doing for the rest of your life in terms of profession, that you should choose that thing that will make you happy. The profession that you would "pay" to do will be the right choice, always. Well, I must say that now, with all the things that I know, all that lecture is just bullock.

It is not true, you cannot choose the profession that you would "pay" to do, mainly because it will not pay. You cannot live properly or sustain a life with good intentions and moral values with the quixotic idea that you can work with a profit in a profession that you would "pay" to do. Of course, the idea is to find a profession that you like enough to work in it for the rest of your life, but working on something that you "love" will only cause you to end up hating it and being miserable for the rest of your life.

In addition to that, there is the problem of school guides. Apparently, teachers and academic authorities plan and prepare the school plans with their eyes closed; naturally, everything that they teach you will come in handy, one way or the other, but in some cases, the most important things that you need to know are absent from your mind making it harder to adjust to that first professional job.

While learning is something that will happen regardless of the adequacy of the preparation that your school has given, you will be able to succeed regardless of their best efforts to make you fail. It is not something that you want to experience or put yourself on the firing line because of; climbing a corporate ladder is generally the first goal that you have even in your first job and being the dork that is out of school and lacking the basic knowledge in the working field will not make it easier.

As a boss myself now, I can sincerely say that it will cause you to loose precious time and will eventually force you to seek another job, so that you will loose the "dork out of school" sign that will make you lose important promotions and salary increases.

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