IS CAREER A JOB?

The bitter truth is that there is no readymade jobs anywhere, this fact, coupled with the vulnerable and uncertain economic condition of our country should be enough reason to employ caution in choosing the venture that will take the rest of your life and that’s your
career.




Career is one area of life that
we young people have been elusive about, we pay more attention to love and relationship than we pay to this area that is pivotal & central to our life and future and if missed, can frustrate our entire life.

In this line of thought, your career is as important as your life, it can either make your life enjoyable or miserable, that’s the reason we need guidance in choosing what we will spend the rest of our lives doing to avoid lifelong mistakes.

Career involves the progress and action taken by a person throughout a lifetime. It is a sequence and variety of occupations (paid and unpaid) which one undertakes throughout his lifetime.

Career is not a job.
A job is a padded position requiring a group of specific attribute that enables a person have position for a long or short time.

REASONING

1. The rate of unemployment in our country today with thousands of graduates without a job is enough to give one a thought to make sure he/she understands that he/she is not going to join the cue of jobbers.

2. The awareness of the drop in the major sector in our economy and the corruption rate in our country should be a sign that nobody will give you the place that you desire if not you.

3. The bitter truth is that there are no readymade jobs anywhere in Nigeria and this should incite carefulness when choosing a career.



HOW TO START

Career decision start from answering these basic questions of life:
1. Who am I?

2. What am I here (on earth) for?

3. What is my purpose on earth?

4. What is my assignment?

5. Who am I to become to fulfill that purpose or assignment?

6. What is my life about?

These questions are inter-related but they were asked this way to make sure that no matter how low your understanding maybe, you will arrive at the aim of what they intend to achieve.

Until one answers these questions, you have not started your career journey. You may go to school, graduate, get a job, make some money and live well, but until you go to that you are cut out for, you won’t be happy and satisfied in life.