Child's Vision: "Safe Futures" Vs "Unsound Passions"

Photography, painting, choreography, singing, acting, DJing, sound recording and a plethora of spellbinding vocational spheres prevail but not many are contemplated as productive or worthwhile career options. One of the snags for youngsters tapping off-beat spheres is the scarcity of sound education. Excluding a few , our education system revolves around passing examinations by hook or by crook. Negligible is offered to improvise a child's vision and lateral thinking. Invariably, they opt settling for “safe futures” rather than “unsound passions” which are worth a shot.

Parents should boost their children to view over and above the traditional zones whereby passion can be transformed into a career. Not many parents nowadays are aware of the avenues accessible to their children, in fact lads are more informed than their parents due to advancement in technology. There are umpteen careers available in profusion of sectors and children should be encouraged to explore and take charge for oneself.

Mainstream medicine and entrenched engineering were considered as the cream professions since they could find painless job placements. Medicine still savours that position however engineers are encountering a tough time to get jobs. In many new spheres, jobs are available with handsome salaries and job satisfaction like Fashion designing and Advertising Media etc. World has many more career building jobs available. So we should stop the clamour for overrated jobs and explore for different careers which serve ample of good opportunities.

Every child has a distinct skill and a fine unique shade of talent. A shade that cannot be duplicated. Support their shade and don't let it fade forcing it to be identical to other shades. This needs to be pursued by growing children having taste for out of box thinking. If parents won’t let their children make decisions for themselves, the world won’t stop. Rather it will keep growing in different emerging disciplines to grow and work in, then why confine the new generation to an old stereotypical life. The upcoming generation is spectacularly forward than we are, so let their originality blossom rather than sabotaging it. No career is lower than the other, it is passion from the part of the individual that makes their sparkling. There was nobody to advise us and many of us might have ended up on the predictable path. Let’s not let the history repeat.

With the range of opportunities plattered today, one can succeed only if they really have a passion to do a particular thing, irrespective of the field - you name the career and you will find people succeeding in them only because of immense passion. Beautifying off beat careers will only make a flowery picture. The motto is not to window dress any specific career. The motto rather is to give recognition to abundant passion along with aptitude. This demands a change in the mindset of both the parents and the educators.

As John Milton said childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. Childhood is the most tender and impressionable stage and learning follows the pattern of imitation. What is seen as off-beat now may roll out to be a magnificent area potent enough to surpass the orbit of human comprehension. Great enthusiasts bring repute to the career chosen.