Do you love your job?

People land in wrong profession, either by their own choice or have been compelled to by their parents. Compulsory career counseling must be made available in all schools so that students can make up their mind as early as possible.

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Tue, Nov 03, 2009 11:42:46 IST

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IT MUST have happened with you also, sometimes feeling burdened with work in office while at times frustrated with sitting idle for hours or just killing the time. We complain in both the situations; I am not being given any work or I am being victimised by flooding with work. Sometimes, we don’t like the work profile. Nagging boss or colleagues are also one of the common reasons which make people difficult to survive in their job. More work less salary, salary not in tandem with the qualification and experience are the reasons to feel disappointed in job which need not to be mentioned.

People, who have landed in wrong profession, either by their own wrong choice or have been compelled to, are the ones who remain unhappy with their work throughout their professional life. Fact is that there will be one out of hundred saying, “I love my job.”

We being unhappy or unsatisfied with our job all the time has simply to do with two major reasons. First, its human nature to be unsatisfied and complainant no matter what the situation is more or less. It can be explained better with the phrase: ‘Grass is always greener on the other side’. People change their job one after another searching for their dream job, which may not even exist. There can’t be any guaranteed solution for this but it is to be understood that work, boss, colleagues, office environment are all part of life and just there is no dream life there can not be dream job also. Happy and sad are a part and parcel of life and that goes with profession also.

Secondly and very importantly, we often commit mistakes while understanding our aptitude and choosing the right career for ourselves. In many cases, mostly in India, it is parents who decide which field their children will go into. They either want them to follow their path or wish to pursue them in life which they wanted to do but couldn’t.

Students also are responsible a number of times for choosing the career which they lack, both, aptitude and interest for. Unknowingly what they want to do as their profession, they get attracted by higher pay packages, seemingly glamour quotient attached to some field etc.

Once I heard a girl saying over phone in the metro, “There is no glamour in law as we used to think before joining.” Law, media, fashion, films are the best target of the students for getting closer to the limelight world. Series of discontent starts once they get acquainted with the nuance of that field and what lies behind that glamour.

Here, the role of school and parents, both, take the front seat. Compulsory career counseling must be made available in all schools from early age so that students can make up their mind as early as possible. And that counseling should not only comprise of career related aspects but professional atmosphere and behaviour too, such as what all type of situations one can come across in a particular field and how to handle that efficiently.

It’s been talked about for long but is foremost also that parents should not impose their wishes on their children, so that they can confidently say they love their job.

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