This article is exclusively for those students and their parents who are busy deciding their career path. In today's competitive world, participation in the rat race is preferred over the interests of a person. In this world, happiness is achieved through the satisfaction that one is better than the other and not by doing what we like. The rat race begins in one's life when that person is forced, obligated or convinced to choose a certain career. At this very point in life, a person kills his/her interests when he/she tends to do what someone else is telling him/her to do. This is the reason behind why we often hear people saying that "I am bored of this job or profession". If a person does what he/she likes the most, there is no chance of getting bored in future this is what I think. In between all of this, the importance of some courses is degraded to glorify certain courses which are disliked by the student. This has resulted in the selection of a handful of courses that are glorified and are considered prestigious by people over generations.
93% Indian students aware of just seven
career options as per reported by India today’s survey which got responses from
10,000 students of age group 14 to 21 years. According to researchers, India
has a variety of 250 career options offered across 40 fields covering 5,000 job
types.
Zoology is one of such subjects which people think is of no use. Zoology is a branch of biology that studies overall aspects of the animal kingdom, which is an important part of Earth and Nature. In my case, when I tell the people that I am pursuing a degree of science in Zoology, a kind of question mark appears on their faces. They have no idea about it. Some of them even try to convince me to change the course and study something else. “What will you do afterwards, there is no scope in it, the pay scale is too low, etc.?” I hear many such things from almost every person I meet who doesn't have any idea about the complexity, vastness and future of this course. Animals, environment, forests, sustainable development, wildlife, etc. "Who cares about them?" is a common misconception in minds of such people. But my parents supported my decision of choosing zoology as major subject for my bachelor’s degree, because I was able to convince them and explained them the scope of this field. That is what matters to me and I think no one else has any right to comment about someone’s career choice.
There are many instances where parents are seen to suggest, explain, convince even force the child to opt specific courses. There is nothing wrong with that because the parents feel that their child must have a good life or even better life than theirs. Now, here it is the responsibility of the child to convince the parents most ethically and scientifically. The child should express his/her interest, why he/she is willing to do that course, what is the scope, what are the pros and cons, what are the job profiles, what are your goals, make them read this article, etc. There must be a positive level of transparency between you and your parents so that they can believe in you. The important factor which can influence your parents is the scope of this course and job profile. Dear parents, neither science is greater to commerce nor medical/engineering is greater than bachelor’s degree. Every course exists and is offered because it has distinct level of importance in separate dimensions of life. I hope this article was successful in its motive. At the end of the day its your life and what I think is your life is your making.
-Meehir Pawar
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