Students should choose a career they love
Sat, 01/28/2017 - 3:23pm
It is better in the long run for students to get involved in and pursue a career that they genuinely enjoy.
This sentiment was shared by Saul Leacock, President of the Barbados Association of Guidance Counsellors (BAGC) on Thursday evening during the media launch of the National Career Showcase at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (UWI).
Leacock explained that he believed it is important for persons to do what they like because they essentially spend one-third of their life doing that particular job or career. He noted that if a person is not comfortable with the job or occupation that they have gotten involved in, or just do their job to get money, they will eventually become stressed, unproductive and develop low self-esteem.
However, on the flip side, if persons get involved in doing something that they enjoy, he said their work will become a pleasure to them and they will become more collaborative, team-spirited, more productive and innovative as well as become more useful, intrinsically motivated and there is a greater potential for them to develop better social and relationship skills.
Officially launching the start of the National Career Showcase of 2017, Leacock said that this is the reason for having these annual showcases in an attempt to help children from 3rd to 6th form of public secondary, and more recently of private secondary schools find the career path that they are interested in and to be able to find out how they can get into the career and have time to master the subject areas necessary for their chosen career field. He added that the theme this year remains the same, “Embracing Every Opportunity” and revealed that students will be going to UWI on the 1st and 2nd of February.
Meanwhile, guidance counsellor of the St. Leonard’s Boy’s Secondary School Shernell Belle-Alexander said that the career showcase also aimed at positively influencing the young lives of students as well as educating them about their chosen career fields. (CLF)