MrWatson2018
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- Oct 4, 2018
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I think that one of the biggest failures of the school system is the total lack of guidance and support in choosing the right job for your characteristics and inclinations.
Work is important, it is what you will do almost every day for decades. Work can wreck your life or make it a wonderful adventure. If you find a job that you are passionate about, you will wake up every morning with the desire to take the world. If you do a job you hate, you will also hate your life.
Yet, at school, the poor orientation that is given is based exclusively on the school path: in middle school they ask you to choose which high school to attend, in high school we only talk about the choice of university.
And what about the job? Who helps you to choose a job that will make you happy and fulfilled? Nobody.
Especially in high school, it seems all a matter of university and degree course, without a long-term perspective. As if life didn't go beyond school desks.
This is a circumstance that highlights another problem: there is an incredibly widespread tendency to consider graduation a point of arrival and not a starting point.
Thousands of young people do not plan anything in their adult life but aim exclusively to graduate, as if that piece of paper was the biggest goal of their existence.
So, once in the real world, they claim to have the dream job because, well, they studied hard and got their diploma. They listened to old professors, parents, society in all its forms. They did everything in the right way, yet ... yet the work is not there, and if it is there, it does not make you happy in the least.
In this way, a mass disillusionment takes place. Around me I see a generation (people in their 20-30) unable to leave their parents’ home, depressed, and without any prospective. People who, at 27-28, feel that they have completely failed and do not even want to get busy again. After all, they think, if it doesn’t work when you follow the instructions literally, maybe it simply cannot work…
I’m talking from a EU perspective. Probably overseas it is way different.
Why is it like this?
Work is important, it is what you will do almost every day for decades. Work can wreck your life or make it a wonderful adventure. If you find a job that you are passionate about, you will wake up every morning with the desire to take the world. If you do a job you hate, you will also hate your life.
Yet, at school, the poor orientation that is given is based exclusively on the school path: in middle school they ask you to choose which high school to attend, in high school we only talk about the choice of university.
And what about the job? Who helps you to choose a job that will make you happy and fulfilled? Nobody.
Especially in high school, it seems all a matter of university and degree course, without a long-term perspective. As if life didn't go beyond school desks.
This is a circumstance that highlights another problem: there is an incredibly widespread tendency to consider graduation a point of arrival and not a starting point.
Thousands of young people do not plan anything in their adult life but aim exclusively to graduate, as if that piece of paper was the biggest goal of their existence.
So, once in the real world, they claim to have the dream job because, well, they studied hard and got their diploma. They listened to old professors, parents, society in all its forms. They did everything in the right way, yet ... yet the work is not there, and if it is there, it does not make you happy in the least.
In this way, a mass disillusionment takes place. Around me I see a generation (people in their 20-30) unable to leave their parents’ home, depressed, and without any prospective. People who, at 27-28, feel that they have completely failed and do not even want to get busy again. After all, they think, if it doesn’t work when you follow the instructions literally, maybe it simply cannot work…
I’m talking from a EU perspective. Probably overseas it is way different.
Why is it like this?