FIVE LEVELS OF CAREER CHOICE - FUTURE LEVEL

By Allen Olatunde

Career choice is measured by the end result in the future. There is peak in career when self-actualization or regret may set in. Your choice of today will determine the result of tomorrow. In Nigeria and beyond, some careers have been lucrative and selling in the labour market. If you choice a career because you love it without considering the economic returns, you will be frustrated later.  What are the factors to consider before choosing career for futuristic success?

1.    Societal trend and relevance
There is always a paradigm shift of interest in the society. People do prefer career because it is recognized. Whenever the relevance is dropped, everyone talk less about the career.

2.    Demand in labour market
Labour market is big and wide. Everyone in the market wants to sell and gain. When a career earns big, people will rush into it. Before in Nigeria, nursing was not lucrative but now the season of relevance has come and young ladies want to be nurses because the take-home is handsome. How lucrative a career was, is and will be must be considered before choosing one.

3.    Solution provider for society
Non-monetary value of career to society also matters in choosing one as a student. I said it earlier that you are born to solve problems. Problems await in the future for wrong choice of career while the right choice goes along with solution. Your relevance in the career goes with solution to long awaited problems in the society.


4.    Diversification
Diversification gives room for expansion. The choice of your career should be able to allow you to add other entrepreneurship opportunities. Think about it. You can diversify at Masters’ Degree level to related and relevant fields.

As a student of great career, watch the level you are and adjust yourself to fit in to other levels. Remember that a choice of career that has academic level plus personality level with the backing of parental support level in the tertiary-societal level will survive in the future level.

Allen Olatunde
The Career Blogger