INDICATORS OF SUCCESSFUL CAREER CHOICE - OTHERS

By Allen Olatunde

PARENTS' GUIDE AND RESPONSE

Success indicator on career choice still flips back home. You cannot become what you have not been in the house. Charity begins from home. Your parents/guardians are your natural coach, instructor and guide on matter of life. Career is life. Parent/guardians do not want their child/ward to venture into what can ruin their lives. Therefore, the advice is to deliberately seek counsel from them and wait for the response. Do not fight back on their response. Do not insult them. God sometimes uses parents for their children to stop a wrong move, to guide rightly or to kickoff progressively into success.

SCHOOL VIEWS

School community consists of the principal, vice principals, HOD, teachers, students and you. Everyone knows your academic and potential performance. Their contribution is an indicator for a successful career. The classroom in the school is a test-tube for your career. How do you respond to issues in the class? Do you strive to solve problems in the school and classroom? This is a point where people will begin to suspect your dream career as you relate, resolve and revitalize hope for coming generations. What does your school say about your career? Do you have good testimony in the community? If not, start now to build good foundation for your dream career through academic excellence, good relationship and attitude to solve problems in the school.


O LEVEL RESULTS
Career development stands solely on your O level result. The ability to have at least five credit pass is an indicator of success in career. Some try the exam for more than three times until they have it, only because it is the pass into tertiary institutions. Do your best to have it in time to save your passion from dwindling due to pressure, shame, intimidation and lost opportunities of admission.

PHYSICAL HEALTH STATUS

Sky is not the limit for anyone whose health is intact. Physical status of a career people is an indicator of success. How do you care for your body? Do you eat anything or drink alcohol? I learnt recently about a medical student who was diagnosed for cancer at the mid of her training in university. Now, she would only care for health and careless about career. Go through this health test:

a.    Do you maintain good hygiene as a student?
b.    How often do you rest per day?
c.    Do you eat junks or balanced diet meals?
d.    How often do you exercise your body and brain?
e.    Do you give yourself a moment of leisure from reading to give brain a rest?
Your physical fitness goes along way with your health status that indicates success in dream career.

ENDURANCE LEVEL

How enduring are you in life? Nothing comes easily. Career development grows on the wings of tolerance, endurance, perseverance, emotional stamina and large heart. Through thorns and barbs, colourful flowers blossom. Start to develop hormone for endurance. There is no career without stress. They are manageable ones. Choose a career that you know you can endure the years of training without giving up on the way. A medical doctor goes through different stages of training in the school, at the hospital and in the classroom. He/she will be exposed to dangerous and risky situations, yet he/she must attempt and move on. Be wise.

KNOWING WHAT TO AVOID

Success indicator in career has many things to do and also others to avoid. A student who dreams to choose career successfully will run away from these things:

1.    Unnecessary friendship and ungodly peers.
2.    Sleeping when you suppose to read.
3.    Too much activities that do not add to your career pursuit.
4.    Too much food, junks, sweets, etc.
5.    Passion for malpractice and mercenary during examinations.
6.    Addiction to television show and season movies.
7.    Unnecessary apprehension about your parent ordeal, divorce, debt, illness, etc.
8.    Alcoholism and drug abuse.

Allen Olatunde
The Career Blogger