Comments on: How to start taking a look at career choices http://xatal.com/life/taking-a-look-at-career-choices/ Bringing you safely through high school and into college Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:14:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Liza Brown (career advice expert) @Job Search http://xatal.com/life/taking-a-look-at-career-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-1508 Liza Brown (career advice expert) @Job Search Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:54:34 +0000 http://xatal.com/?p=128#comment-1508 More and more often you can hear that it’s necessary to start thinking about your future career when you haven’t finished a school yet. One can give such advice only after he or she has come across the job search problem in real life. But one shouldn’t forget that these are children who study at school. And their interests are absolutely different. They want to run, jump, have fun and enjoy life. Even after finishing the school and entering the university not all of them know for sure what they want to be in the future. More and more often you can hear that it’s necessary to start thinking about your future career when you haven’t finished a school yet. One can give such advice only after he or she has come across the job search problem in real life. But one shouldn’t forget that these are children who study at school. And their interests are absolutely different. They want to run, jump, have fun and enjoy life. Even after finishing the school and entering the university not all of them know for sure what they want to be in the future.

]]> By: John Hunter http://xatal.com/life/taking-a-look-at-career-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-49 John Hunter Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:11:25 +0000 http://xatal.com/?p=128#comment-49 Doing what you have a passion for is a huge key to your long term happiness. But still looking at what you the career potential of various options is useful. I think the most important thing is setting yourself up for continued learning and adapting throughout your life. It does not seem likely you will start a career at 22 and work at it for 45 years and then retire. You will likely switch around as the world changes and you change. This post talks about IT but is good advice for most, I think: <a href="http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2006/12/06/what-graduates-should-know-about-an-it-career/" rel="nofollow">What Graduates Should Know About an IT Career</a>. Doing what you have a passion for is a huge key to your long term happiness. But still looking at what you the career potential of various options is useful. I think the most important thing is setting yourself up for continued learning and adapting throughout your life. It does not seem likely you will start a career at 22 and work at it for 45 years and then retire. You will likely switch around as the world changes and you change.

This post talks about IT but is good advice for most, I think: What Graduates Should Know About an IT Career.

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