Executive Summary
When considering a career path, one can feel overwhelmed by the various choices. In order to narrow down the choices, some well-meaning friend will tell you, “do what you love”, while another will say, “choose a career that will pay a lot of money”. These cause conflict in an individual’s career pathway. Some individual would prefer working for a good pay career rather than working for a job which satisfies them and make them happy. In vice versa, there are individuals who work on what they love to do and not for the money. There have been research which was done by Handerson on year 2011; he stated that people whom work they love to do have prosper in terms on money as well as happiness. It might be a late start but yet it profits at the end of the day. There are some people whom work for money, gets frustrated at one point of time on their life and lives an unhealthy lifestyle despite having money.
Introduction
In life there are three stages which determine the career pathway of an individual. Based on that, the stages are, childhood, teenager life and as well as adulthood. Career pathway starts from teenager life itself. From then, it moves on to the adulthood whereby that’s the time an individual would implement what is learned on teenager life to a real working life. That is when exactly it moves on to career pathway of a person. Career pathway is a pathway for a new movement in life. It’s a huge decision making term for an individual. A person shouldn’t make a wrong choice at that point of time, or the individual should be able to rectify it Main discussion
Career pathway starts from teenager life, which means parents plays an important role on it. Parents usually wants their children to be in a good position which most commonly, Doctors, Lawyers, and Engineers. If a teenager ever told their parent that he or she wanted to become an artist, they would get the crazy look back from parents. Back then as a teenager, one did not really understand why parents said that, but when the time comes that one has to deal with the own bills and expenses, they see the reasons why. Those career paths guaranteed you a job that gives sufficient money to cover one’s adult expenses. Since then though, things have changed and more career paths are now being accepted thanks to technology boosting some careers such as music and movies.
Ever heard people say – If I had more money…I could go for T.G.I. Friday or buy a new car and more on. Money does not directly make anyone happy but doing all these buying new car and rest makes the person happy. I think money does have a great input to one’s happiness and here is my reason why: Money solves many problems – a place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, transportation, presents for loved ones, treatment at hospitals, etc. People are generally unhappy because they have problems that in many cases require money to solve. So if people make sufficient money to solve most of their problems, then they would generally be happier people.
On the flip side, people whom not making sufficient money generally have to work longer hours to keep up with their bills and end up giving up time with their family and spending less time doing things they love which ultimately leads to unhappiness.
One other thing I realized is although one may pick a career choice for money reasons that is not their passion, they could ultimately make enough money to pursue their passion later on in life which is very true.