Our Vocational Counselor Margherita Laudi says:
How to choose a career that you love. Angela is a Senior student, all summer long she was thinking about which career to choose to study in college. When I talked to her, she showed me that she was very unmotivated, She does not know what to study, but what she is certain is that she needs to identify a career that she loves. This way she will be happy in her new student life.
I started by asking her some questions:
- Are you an open or introverted person?
- Do you like to think or do?
- Do you prefer to work as a team or alone?
- Do you like to be around people or do you prefer to spend hours in front of a computer?
- What are your strengths?
- What subjects do you like and which do you not?
- What do you like to do in your free time?
- For you what is more important: to help others, to have a prestigious job, to earn a lot of money, to have a lot of free time or to do something that you like?
- What kind of work would you like to do in an office or in open places?
Knowing you will help you know which careers or professions are best for you. It sounds cliché, but the truth is that your character, your tastes and interests are aspects that one should analyze when choosing a career.
If you still think it is very difficult to make that choice, there are vocational specialists who can help you make that decision. Do not forget that once you start college, doubt, lack of motivation will only result in you wasting time and money. In the United States, more than half of the students entering universities do not graduate, and one reason is that they drop out because they think the race does not like them, or it was not what they thought.
