Well I am not a career adviser by profession but I found this topic pretty interesting while going through this catagory!
’’am I gonna be pulvarised? or lectured? or auntie darlings from here and there telling me ’beta, do engineering and you will succeed like sunny bhiya, dont do BA baba its only ment for low graders, not for intelligent families like ours!’’.....well this is the kind of atmosphere that is built up in most of the homes! And since ours is a completely ’’ acadamics just a part of your life ’’ family I was free of this kind of pressurising pre and post my results!
What do students go through when they get their results?(i am talking oly about india)....
SOME REACTIONS...
1. They dont go to college to collect them.
2. They are never happy with their percentages even when
they know the amount of effort they have put in.
3. They appear extreamly defensive about the low grades.
4. The ones with good marks tend to take up science or professional courses like medicine, damn the interest being on the more creative sides like Arts and LItreture due to serious misconseptions and wrong guidence from parents and elders.
5. Most of them tend to spend the holidays under pressure and dont enjoy.
These reactions make me wonder weather undue importance should be given to the results of a perticular examination? I mean is your life going to be decided on the basis of what marks you have obtained in some stupid examination you have written in a dingy , dusty classroom?
No doubt the students do need to put in atleast some effort in order to obtain desired marks! what is the point of getting depressed at the aldready spilt milk? And generally its not the case as if the results are not upto the mark due to some one else’s mistake....it definately is the fruit of your own efforts....now weather the fruit is gonna be sweet or bitter depends upon the effort you have put in!
I feel if you take up your resposibility seriously(in this case its studying) and be sincere in what you do then there is a 100% chance that you wont be tensed about the results and depressed about your marks.
I also feel that you should persue a career only in the field of your choice. There is a wrong misconception that students with high marks should take up science while the ones with lower grades should opt for arts!(a family friend was astonished when I told him I will be doing a BA in eng hons after he heard my marks!....He said with your marks u should become a doctor).
This is an age old concept that only engineers and doctors have scope in life while all others are failures and other fields dont offer anything. There are enough amount of employment oppurtunities open in any field provided you excell and create a place for your self!
Dont worry there is enough for everyone in life!
cheers and smiles!