Vocational guidance

and Mental Health

         Mmmmm! What would you like to be if you grow up? What profession would you like to do? Mothers and all the social environment of a person asking a child what he would like  to become when he grows up? All children dream to become doctors, others lawyers, others follow parents' standards, but despise the profession of his father, mother some children want  to deal with something different, some others prefer to do a profession which will be accepted by society, other children follow to do  what they really love. Children at a young age don’t know what they want to do later in life, what profession they want to get involved, usually influenced by their surroundings.

      Children become teenagers, approaching the age of 17 years, reaching the end of an effective education and they ha to  choose what to do with their lives, are they going to take a further study of something, are they  going to  go to a university or a college, are they going to  go abroad, maybe in a private school? maybe learn some art? What What to do; I find it hard to decide, I do not know which profession would be better for me? What to choose  female or male profession?  What are my criterion to choose the work that ia going to do? Is this job going to  bring me money in the future? Will it prevail in the fierce competition in the labor market? And if you do not like the job what I do? I'll study for second degree? How easy is studying then and take diplomas, is my family able to afford all this costs of my studies to continue for so many years?  And if I do not have money can I  work very hard and also continue studies? So many obligations !!!! I would not go out at all? Thoughts, thoughts, concerns for a  really responsible teenager anxious about his future and his professional rehabilitation

    All people in the phase of puberty spend this troublesome stage of specific considerations outlined above, but nevertheless what can I do to put things in order. Career guidance is very difficult choice and a bad choice can follow us throughout our lives and then we might regret.

   First, the first question someone has to ask himself is by what criterion he wants to follow his profession? He wants the work to definitely generate profits for financial reasons? Or doing a job that he likes and loves without  some kind of financial rewards. One would say that he would like to do a job that he likes, loves  and will have good earnings from it. Perhaps most young people responded positively to the third case, however, but life sometimes brings huge surprises, difficult and far from the dreams of young people, the majority of people do jobs they do not like at all simply because they have a decent wage to grow their families.

   When we are young, free, without family responsibilities we are interested to do only things that we love but when come time we have our own families and many obligations and responibilities the families then youngs say "I chose  to study something else so I can  have some bread to eat!!!! »

  Young people should take advice and informations about their plans of their future it plays a huge role in the new options, it would be good to consult their family, learn from the experience of people who already work, you may speak with a specialist social worker or a psychologist is needed, because again if someone doing a job that mentally can not do anything again many problems arise.

    The prosperity of a society depends first of all to appoint the right person in the right job position to have efficiency and productivity. Every man when choosing a profession should first ask himself or herself "Can I do this job? I have the mental stamina to become a doctor or nurse can I be strong seeing  blood, germs in road accidents should I treat ? Am I able to do it? Am I able to  handle it on so huge responsibilities? "Each profession has its own course of questions to which answers you should give to yourself. You must answer to yourself what you want .......... a profession that will generate profits or a profession that I will bring social prestige?

   You want to become a dancer, have you  got the inclination to become a dancer?  Do you have the body, exercise, mood, work hard every day?  You want to become a musician ....... for example,  can you withstand playing 6 hours a day musical instrument and often second or third? You want to become informatics ............ ..? Are you able to be   in front of a screen 10 hours a day  programming?, and most of the time to work in 4-5 computers together in front of five screens?

       Think ... ..can you .........? You want to become teacher ... ..? Is it possible fo you  reading books for hours? I brought only some of the examples, just to show you a way how to think secretly, try to ask yourself and to elicit the response that will lead you to the most appropriate options for you. Certainly when you choose your profession you will follow yourself and the decision will be ONLY yours. You will be the only responsible for your choices and the profession you will choose. 

        In Greece if in future you regret about the profession you studied , there is a second opportunity to change occupation to study something else in a 23 years old age but still only 5% hsve success in  a second studies field with a qualifying exam is very difficult The economic problems starting, can your family afford all these years of your studies? For how long? You have to start working for a living. You're young 23 years old but life goes so fast that you should not be wasting a minute.

    Now that you've got all your paperwork from the university, your degrees, your diplomaw, your masters,  your foreign languages degrees and other potentially the labor market needs, you have everything in your hand and you come to post your resume and CV and see another mountain before you. 100,000 graduates leave their resumes and CVs to the same jobs with you, come out notices and you see  100,000 applications to hire the 19, waiting to find a job can last 10 years if find some work will surely be a contract five months, eight months or for 1  year it sounds great, but not ideal you got just a contract, you will be fired, no permanence, and after two more years of waiting in the offices of OAED office for unemployments.

     Today's society is experiencing work as a mountain, though we should not get discouraged, it is very difficult things but “good captains” as we usually  say “look at storms.”

    Many young people who are looking for the perfect job throughout their lives, so before any option we need to know ourselves, what can we do, what we want and whether it is feasible to succeed.

    I want to be a dancer, but I'm 100 kg?  It can not be done; I want to be a composer of music but I play a musical instrument only 5 minutes a day, then? It can not be done. I want to be an actress, all young people want to become actors, can it become? all  people  actors? Of course not.

          Our society would be awkward if everyone were doctors, all lawyers, all singers. The society is more beautiful with the different professions and so we are more useful than we can imagine in a society offering substantial work in various professions without regarding for the social prestige of a job.

     There are of course cases of people making more than one job, another job to earn their livelihood and another to meet their mental health and pleasure, maybe three can and 4 may 5 may 6 many jobs. It is snot necessary getting paid from all the jobs, but they do their hobbies. Hobbies fill people and make them happy. How to do your hobby?  when there is no time from the main job? It is difficult, ...... .. is the truth, but it is enough a few hours a week  doing a job you want and you will forget all the burdens of a job that you do not like.

     Reported 4, 5, 6 jobs "good will impress us, are you mad? One would wonder "what five jobs here we can not find one job and would have a right to think this way, always according to today's standards, but if someone really wants to succeed can not forget that the jobs of the future, jobs are coming, where man will have to be "octopus" in order to cope with the huge workload, and not talking about the distant future but for our generation, lets say in the next five years. What are these jobs of the future? We will talk in detail in the next article and believe me so many jobs  that one works all day doing 10 jobs and will not reach the employees because there will be 500 million jobs and not be able to address those jobs. There will not be enough human hands.

     But do not forget that the perfect work that you want with good hours of good working conditions, the ideal working environment that everyone wants and that is why we fight after all!

   I hope I helped you to make some decisions. I spent some of my valuable time for our young people.

Thank you for reading  my article.

Charoula Koutsouroumpa

RN Nurse Graduate

ATEI Athens

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