Quotes Tagged "career"
Momentous, cardinal decision — the choice of one’s work in the world; of one’s career. Few for whom the choice is early obvious and settled; few who can choose on their own. The initial responsibility is with those who are supposed to set us on the road. How often the choice, if choice it be is made for the boy — or even by him — on some fortuitous irrelevant circumstance. Or he just drifts into this or that. No conscious, serious, deliberate, reasoned effort rightly to choose. Hence the unhappiness and unsettlement of uncongenial, unsuitable occupation. Hence inefficiency and wastage in every business; in the business of the country. First requirement — an honest and determined effort to discover and understand oneself; one’s characteristics; abilities and disabilities; inclinations and disinclinations; assets and liabilities; temperament and disposition; an integration to the all-wisdom of knowing oneself. Then as to occupation. Decision not by appearance and incidental, in ignorance of what is involved in training and pursuit. Every profession and trade and calling has its special conditions, requirements, opportunities; they can easily be ascertained. Review these against the knowledge of one’s own characteristics and so the highest common factor can be determined. Too mathematical? Even if the part that conscious choice can play be exaggerated, it is better thus to err. At least it is worth the effort.
You don't really actually have a choice, it's like you can't get work, so you go into education to then be whacked with a load of debt you can't pay and nobody will even give you a job while you're at college or uni because, errrr... MAYBE you're AT COLLEGE and when you're not there, you're studying or, let's face it, you're getting drunk. It's a trap. Then ONCE you get your qualifications all the jobs are taken or have been cut and then you're just there, trying to get the same job you applied for all those years back, when you were sixteen, just this time you're way too overqualified and broke. Unless you're parents are loaded or you come up with some amazing idea and become a millionaire, or win the lottery... you're screwed. A millionaire isn't even a millionaire any more. You know how long a million pounds lasts in London these days? Zilcho nilcho.
Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he cannot get his living by that, it will rather spoil him for anything else; and your other son, who can hardly write his name, will do more at ploughing and sowing, and is in a better condition, than he.' And indeed so it proved; for the poor lad, not finding friends to maintain him in his learning, as he had expected, and being unwilling to work, fell to drinking, though he was a very sober lad before; and in a short time, partly with grief, and partly with good liquor, fell into a consumption, and died.
