One of the toughest questions almost every American citizen has ever come across is the question of whether to choose a career you are passionate about or one that pays very well. A select few are very passionate about their careers that pay quite well, these people are extremely fortunate. I propose that one should always choose the career that he or she is most passionate about, regardless of the how much that job pays. Although I fully agree with chasing after a career one is passionate about, I also think one must make intelligent and informed decisions while chasing after his or her career. Especially, when the career being chased is one that does not pay well. One of these decisions would be taking the least expensive route to being
Have you ever been in a position where you where stuck and couldn’t decide between two careers? Whether it was something that you love to do or something that pays well? The answer may seem easy to you but when you start comparing the facts; that’s when it gets hard to choose. For many of us, graduates and people around the world have a difficult time choosing a career that can be a confusing process. A lot of people tend to settle down on a career quickly. Unfortunately, choosing a rapid occupation often leads to an unsatisfying path in the future, if not sooner. Eventually the individual decides to quit and start all over again. According to choosingacareer.net, “6% of
“Men will then be seen continually to change their track for fear of missing the shortest cut to happiness.” (Tocqueville, Alexis). By not continuing the education track for a career and grasping wildly for an easier track will bring you further and further away from the goal wanted. The dream is like a destination. Would you take a straight path or would you take all the roads leading there? One must have the appropriate education to achieve in the career wanted.
Power Struggles in the High Middle Ages Throughout most of history, knights and nobles held most of the political power. Once the High Middle Ages began, that power shifted into the hands of popes and kings. This struggle went on for a very long time. Popes believed to have the power because they believed they were chosen by God to rule over the people.
Gordon Marino effectively argues the importance of individuals doing what they need to do and not just what they love as a career. He builds his argument by including anecdotes, citing experts, and appealing to the audience’s emotions. To begin with, in his article, Dr. Marino builds his argument with anecdotal evidence to help readers see the importance of choosing to do more than what they love. The personal stories strengthen his argument and the use of pathos because he gives an example of his life saying, “My father didn’t do what he loved. He labored at a job he detested so that he could send his children to college” (page 2, para.2).
More often than not, young students are taught to believe that they must go to a prestigious university to obtain a Bachelor’s degree or higher in order to have a fulfilling and satisfying career. This may hold true for some people, but others do not need to follow this same path. For students who choose a career that isn’t considered conventional or isn’t high in pay, they tend to be looked down upon which pressures them into choosing career paths that they do not have a passion for, or the skill set to actually accomplish which makes college a waste of time and money. While everyone should be encouraged to get an education beyond high school, people should be encouraged to get the education that is relevant and proper for them to make sure they are getting their money’s worth.
In evaluating my personal dreams and the needs of the future, the pressure of becoming a notable use to society has impacted my overall decisions in choosing what society needs over my dreams for a career. In order to deal with the pressure of becoming a useful tool in society, I made a compromise between my personal desires and the responsibility of being successful. This was a personal judgement problem for me as I had to choose between my dream career and risk not being able to provide for myself or choose a career that I know will guarantee a
In the video, How to find a Job you Love, it talks about how we need to find a job that we would enjoy, even if we screw it up. The video explains that if we are passionate for something, we should might as well make it as our job. In his video, he says, “But you’re doing work that embodies who you are.” In, The Fall, the main character loved his job, but for the wrong reasons. Although it was mostly for fame, he did it so he could get something out of it. “But, seen from the outside, it looked rather like a passion.” He did it for the opposite reasons that most people would. When we choose what to do with the rest of our lives, we should most likely choose something we would genuinely enjoy, not to get something out of
In fact, just the other day while taking the online survey to help me select my major, I saw myself paying attention to the salaries each occupation tends to make instead of focusing on occupations I can turn into my career and end up enjoying. It seems like now a days more individuals are deciding to go to college just because society has tied this whole notion of “if you go to college then you’ll earn more.” My problem isn’t the fact that individuals are simply going to college in order to earn a higher wage, but the fact that the earning of some occupations may discourage an individual from doing what he or she desires to do with their life. That individual may be forced to select a career that has higher earnings opposed to selecting an occupation they enjoy doing. As a result of this, in the future this individual will be stuck doing something they particularly don’t enjoy doing as their every day
Choosing a career is not always based on what someone is most passionate about. It can be about the pay rate, the hours or even the environment. Gordon Marino author of "A Life Beyond Do What You Love", published in 2014 in the New York Times, reasons that people should not only do what they love but perform something that can benefit society or their families. Mariano is a professor of philosophy, a student advisor and a community volunteer. He came to realize that adults who mentor and advise young adults should not only tell them to "Do What they Love."
When it comes to someone picking a career, this can be complicated and sometimes even complex. When someone has finally chosen a career field, this just means that thy have decided that they have finally figured out what it is that they want to do in their life. It also means that they figured out that this career is something that they love and see their self-doing for a while, and it will be able to provide them with a comfortable lifestyle. However, I would have to say that is not what happened for me. The career I had chosen was not something that I loved doing. It was something that allowed me to be able to provide for my son. My career at this moment is working in the United States Army, as a logistic specialist. I have been within
“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a
If you love what you do, is it even work at all? Too many people have jobs they only work because of the salary. They spend their entire career doing what they don't especially enjoy. I never want to be like that. I know it's a bit cliche, but being a surgeon sounds like a rewarding career path for me.
Fukushima represents a catastrophe that had world wide implications for the nuclear power sector. On March 11, 2011, following a major earthquake, a 15 m tsunami hit the coast of Japan. This natural disaster caused a great deal of damage to the surrounding areas, but had a particularly dangerous effect on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. In response to the initial earthquake, the operating units at Fukushima were automatically shutdown (Hindmarsh, 5). The 15 m tsunami, which hit the plant, flooded it under several meters of water. This combined caused the entire plant to suffer a complete power blackout. It was not believed that the plant would lose all power, nor that a tsunami of such size could occur (Hindmarsh 28). Resulting from the loss of power, existing cooling functions for the reactors were shut down also and as a result, fuel in the core was damaged, and radioactive material was released into the environment (Hindmarsh 12). Charles Perrow's Normal Accident Theory (NAT) proposes "a framework for characterizing complex technological systems such as air traffic, marine traffic, chemical plants, dams, and especially nuclear power plants according to their riskiness" (“Normal Accidents” 5). Perrow suggests that systems that are highly complex and tightly coupled create the environment for ‘normal accidents’ to occur; that is, accidents that are inevitable (“Normal Accidents” 88-89).
As a young man entering my senior year of high school, my mind races as I try to figure out what it is that I’ll commit my life to. What will be the driving passion, the purpose of my existence, the reason I get out of bed every morning to face another day of this life? Some people would try to encourage me to choose a career simply for its potential to make me wealthy. However, looking at the degenerate lives of the rich and the famous around the world, its apparent to me that the pursuit of earthly riches alone isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. I’d rather spend my days in pursuit of something more fulfilling. As far as I can tell from my
Choosing a right career path can be tough. Especially, when the parents are involved. Parents want their children to have a better life in the future so they want their children to be educated. When they are successfully graduate from the college they can get a high paying job and earn much more than their parents. However, does everyone listen and follow their parents’ decisions about the career? What happen if kids didn’t want what their parents told them to do? Is there a compromise and or one side needs to give in? It was a tough decision for me too. There was a lot of pressure on me. I was hesitated and somehow worried when my parents were involved, but I knew what I want for my career.