Be redeemed!
Very few people push themselves out of their comfort zones. This is despite the reality that the life they lead is not the best they want or ever desired. Many people are at war with their own conscience, their own good reasoning. You can’t be a father or mother who doesn’t understand the challenges your own son or daughter is going through? You see them seated at home with or without a qualification just because you are in denial that new, absolutely new qualifications have come aboard.
Do you want your child to ask you, “Why are you doing this to us?” I implore you to come to the rescue of your child no matter his or her situation. Whether she or passed his or her O/A-levels the best approach is to reflect about the future of your child. Remember you invested a lot of money and other resources in educating him or her.
Make a commitment to give your child a future — and yourself too!
While you get disappointed with his or her result such a response isn’t best hence you must allow yourself to quickly recover from it! After all the national pass rate isn’t impressive, neither were your own pass marks!
Make a commitment to give your child a future — and yourself too!
Self-love is truly foundational to everything we do! The question, “What do I do with my life?” should be permanent in your mind and existence irrespective of age. Truth is it is so challenging for a young adult who just finished O/A-level or even university to ask and find answers to this question alone.
They need help. Some parents, unfortunately force their children to follow their dream or fulfil their failed dream. As a result, both the child and the parent end up chocked in a “tired” or “tried and tested” dream career option. The sad news is that both fail to see, let alone recognise that there are new career paths now available. These were not known before!
Equally they might fail to realise there are alternative pathways that are so rewarding resulting in one getting recognised, relevant and respected across geographical boarders.
As a parent and also a child avoid group thinking in choosing a career path. Don’t follow the crowd. Equally don’t choose a career path or a course to do on the basis of subjects done at school. Neither should you use perceived financial benefits as the only yardstick in career selection — where you see yourself driving fancy cars, owning a luxurious house, going on excessive trips, earning a lot of money et cetera. Such an approach is problematic.
Parents are urged to take time to sit down with a career guidance and/or life coach so that they together work to construct if not decide with the child’s input on the best supported career option. Parents should be supportive no matter how constraining the budgets are, or how disappointed they were, in the past, by the behaviour, conduct and or performance of their child. They should allocate real time to talk, listen and respond constructively to their children.
We live on borrowed time
Essentially as human beings we live on borrowed time hence the need to focus on emancipating our disappointed, confused, excitable and at time fence-seater selves or children. For that reason, we need to invest lots of time and effort deciding on how we want to spend our lives hence how our children want to live their lives. Avoid being indecisive about your future as in doing so you are bringing suffering on your side and in extreme cases shame as well.
Seek to arm yourself with appropriate career information including the various options available to you. Blaine Lee advised that the principles you live by create the world you live in hence if you change the principles you live by you change your child. My advice is don’t look your past!
We are hiring!
Be assured if you have not seen or responded to the such a job advert announcement then your qualifications are only good. This is the reason why you must avoid totally studying or doing certain professions. Do them and you become irrelevant! Reason is there are some professions that are becoming obsolete. Heed this as most professions are becoming obsolete due to technological developments. Avoid selecting a career that is made up of declining job opportunities.
Your performance is good but you are rarely promoted — ask yourself why?
You get saddened to discover that toxic people get recognised and promoted. In his article, “Why do high performers fail to get promoted?” Kudzai Derera postulated that there is a legitimate reason. Good performers get overworked that they hardly find time to upskill and engage in career development. Avoid giving the excuse that you can’t go to college because of work pressure as your employer might then avoid you by promoting a fellow who is an extraverted chatter — talking all the way with evidence of work done!
Do what you love and love what you do!
This could be one of the simplest but best approaches to choosing a career path. This helps you to become realistic, artistic and enterprising in your approach throughout your life in a certain career field.
This article is prepared and presented in the interest of providing free career guidance and counselling to all people who value education and training as a critical cornerstone to success in life. Trust Academy invites all people with O-levels as well as degree holders who have a dilemma or are unsure of what career path to pursue to visit their offices at number 52 Fort street, between 3rd and 4th avenue, Bulawayo for FREE career guidance. Alternatively, write to: adminbyo@trustacademy.co.zw/ WhatsApp 0773 616 665 or 0712212179