The big question is What can make a person choose one career and the other person choose another?
Let me do the honors of unveiling the somethings you should consider right before your eyes......
Your passion
You may end up doing what ever you choose to do now for the rest of your life so you have to choose wisely.
Yes!! whether your like something or not affects your performance in that trade. It maybe tough to figure out but think about that one time when you saw someone doing something and you said to yourself or to your best friend, I would do that someday. Well.... that's how you know.
Your knowledge
There are some academic requirements for almost all careers but we would emphasize more on basic and informal knowledge. Ask yourself do you love helping people? Do your love taking care of people? Do you love fixing things? Do you love being alone,quiet?what is that one thing that you can talk confidently about for hours and hours?so on then you will narrow your options
A word
You may answer YES to all the questions above but there are definitely some aspects of one that you prefer over the other so please take your time to analyze all your options before deciding
Finances
What if you have all the above checked but then there is no means? It is still your choice whether to continue with the path your parents/ Guardian choose and switch to what you love later on in life or you finance yourself to do what you love.(Please do not hold a grudge on your parents for not being able to provide)
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Plans
Do you have the typical plan to get married and have kids? How would your career affect your relationship with your partner and your kids? How would your career affect YOU? You also need to plan ahead and if possible with your partner before time.
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A word
Choose a career that would give you as much time as you need. Remember that there are online courses you can take later on if there is a need.
Income
Are you the bread winner of your Family? That is, Does the entire family look up to you to provide? This is very likely if you are the first born or in an African home. Then you need to pick a career that can care for the responsibilities you have now and even later because they are going no where. In fact, they may even double once you leave school.
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Tip
Be specific on what you want to learn and as the saying goes if you know where you are going to, you will know how to get there.
Dear Emperor/Empress
Thanks much much for reading!!!
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