Career

Ever since we started attending schools and picking subjects and departments,  we always had in mind what it is we aspire to be in the future. A student who loves Science-related courses would love to venture into the Engineering field or the Medical field. An individual is driven by the urge to have an impact in the world's development which can be positive or negative. Let not talk about the latter as no one would want to have an involvement in that even though the actions of some births that. We all want to be recognised in different fields and parts of the world such as the likes of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Charles Dickens, Isaac Newton, Galileo and much more. The works of these people made a way and path for them in their chosen field of work and it can be traced down to them choosing a good and suitable career in relations to their skills. We are the ones to decide where we want to have a positive impact on and change by looking at our capabilities and limits.

A Career is a path or process through profession in which one as taken as his/her life's work through life and history, abstractly put.

Popularly, in my Country, an education system used which has proved quite effective in the process of choosing a Career is that of the High school, which can be said to be of two stages; The Junior stage and The Senior stage

In the Junior stage, students are tught and passed through all subjects of different fields mainly the Science, Commercial and Arts. They advance intermediately from the class 1 to 3. During these advances, they are taught the basics and essentials of all the three fields mentioned.

In the Senior stage, it can be called a stage of Filtration as students are to decide which of the three major fields they want to venture into be it the Science, Commercial or Arts. Normally and academically, the grades of each student in the Junior stage in different subjects relating to a particular field would decide where he or she is to go. Students also advance through class 1 to 3. A student who is good in the Science related subjects would go for Science and same applies likewise for others.

After High School , we go to College. The College is where we use all the basics of the knowledge acquired in the High School to be further furnished by dealing directly with one's field of study and career chosen. Those in Science can decide to go for Engineering or Medicine which are also subdivided as Engineering can be Civil based, Agricultural based , Electrical based and so on.

I major in Engineering, I have chosen a Career in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering. I am called a *Techite * as I am in a Faculty of Technology which is Engineering based. I am in my second year.

Picking a Career is a major challenge in such that the students are left to decide on their own and not that they are filtered off by the System. A student who is good in Science can decide to follow up friends and cliques to another field on leaving High School and may tend to find life difficult there. Choosing a career is an action and decision that is being built right from the onset and not just a one day realisation. I, as an example, saw that all through my High School that I was good in the Science related courses and decided to further hone my knowledge and be well rooted..
Choosing a career is a one time decision and if gotten wrong might take a long time and effort to fix , if it can even be fixed. My advise to us all is to be careful when choosing a career and give the best of our abilities when doing so.