No Future?

It saddens me whenever I get to know that someone's parents are forcing them to do a particular subject which they are not interested in. What on earth are these parents thinking? Do doctors, engineers, lawyers and accountants only be accounted as professions with a future? So those stall venders who have a passion for grilling burgers and are earning tons of money, but is said to have no future?

Scenario 1:

Child wants to take design, parents say no future. So now the child studies business. When the child is being ask why not do what she wants? She says because parents are paying for her college. Her solution plan to get what she wants: graduate from her business course and work till she gets enough money to study what she wants.

So whatever the parents has forced the child to do, the child won’t end up doing it, so what’s the point when close minded parents decide for their child a career with ‘future’ and end up wasting their money because of letting them study what they wouldn’t end up doing?

If you who know nothing of the design field and can say that it has no future, are you the best person to be giving advice to them? Isn’t the thinking that the design field has no future shallow?

Scenario 2: Conversation between A and B

A: I want to change course to fashion design but is it a good industry? I heard that people can’t really get a good job here in Malaysia.

B: I think you should do some research about that industry here in Malaysia. If it is promising then go ahead, if otherwise, then you have to think of other options

A: I think fashion is the only thing I’m interested in.

So what is the solution that best suits A?

It is not the field of study that will determine your success, but it is you that is in control of your success. You are the only driver in your own journey of life. I think that no matter what fields of study you go into, you are responsible to create a future for yourself. Future here means success. Success of course means money. For example if a fashion graduate here in Malaysia is unable to get a decent job, then that person have to find ways with whatever knowledge he has to make ends meet. It could be starting own business or venturing into other related industries. Use the passion and drive in what you have and go ahead and create success of your own. Now that sounds rather not too complicated right? So why afraid to study what your heart really longs for all these while?

So isn’t the thinking of “unconventional professions = no future” simply just shallow? For example some people may look up to doctors and too often many will dream that their offspring will become one, but a painter may be looked at as just someone who does strokes with his brush. If both of them are earning the same amount of money every month, so which of them has chosen a career with a “future”?

Hard work, determination, having the right attitude, time management, etc…………

Needless to say those are the key to a future!

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