Many times in life we come across this question especially when we are at the beginning of our career as young men. Today's world is so dynamic that we regularly come across this kind of dilemma. The difference between high pay and low pay can be upto 5 times (15000/- p.m. vs. 75000/- pm.)
1. What is Interest?
"Interest is the thing while doing which you are at your best in terms of creativity, energy, concentration and comfort."
As we have seen in movie "3 Idiots", Amir khan and Madhavan finally follow career of their interest. Similarly in real life examples are Sachin Tendulkar (hardly 12th std pass), Gundappa Vishwanath (Bank clerk), Lata Mangeshkar, APJ abdul kalam, Dhanraj Pillai, Vishwanathan Anand, Milkha singh they all followed career of their interest.
Teaching job is one of the most noble profession after doctors. Doctors save life, teachers shape the future of the Nation but teaching job is not given due respect compared to corporate jobs. Many students even though they had interest in basic science subjects like Physics, chemistry, mathematics are forced to take up engineering because it has better job prospects.
I had alignment towards subject 'X' but my marks were good in subject 'Y'. When we went for career counselling, the counseller adviced me to go for career in 'Y'. Counsellers' logic is correct but I still think we should go for career in 'X'. One last example, if a childs parents are businessmen but the child is interested in sports, adventurous activities then army, navy, airforce will open up a new exciting world to him but parents may not allow child for that career.
2. Highly paid jobs:
Generally high paid jobs are high responsibility jobs but its not always true and we should be able to distinguish between the two. For example in a company sales people are evaluated on the basis of orders they brought to the company. Its very difficult to find a company with a long term vision which can consider the work of sales people in sowing the seeds which will grow and become fruit bearing trees in the future. Many companies may give attractive salary offers to the beginners but in future, the growth in terms of learning/skills may not be much.
3. Low paying jobs:
Generally in small companies and start-ups people get better exposure and responsibility regarding the job profile. Even though they get less salary, their learning curve will be steeper compared to a person working in a giant company. In giant company you will be given a small task of a project where as in small company visibility of the project is good. Even in big companies people who do R&D kind of work for the product are paid less.
4. How much money do I need?
On an average everyone thinks to have a job which can fulfil the necessary requirements of life like a house, children's education in decent school, etc. But it is always true that demand is always more than supply i.e. expense is greater than income. We have to learn to compromise and maintain an Equilibrium between our needs and resources.
Disclaimer:
If you have High Interest and being paid very handsomely then you are one of the few exceptional people in the world. The above article is not applicable for you. If you can share your experience we all will be glad to hear.
1. What is Interest?
"Interest is the thing while doing which you are at your best in terms of creativity, energy, concentration and comfort."
As we have seen in movie "3 Idiots", Amir khan and Madhavan finally follow career of their interest. Similarly in real life examples are Sachin Tendulkar (hardly 12th std pass), Gundappa Vishwanath (Bank clerk), Lata Mangeshkar, APJ abdul kalam, Dhanraj Pillai, Vishwanathan Anand, Milkha singh they all followed career of their interest.
Teaching job is one of the most noble profession after doctors. Doctors save life, teachers shape the future of the Nation but teaching job is not given due respect compared to corporate jobs. Many students even though they had interest in basic science subjects like Physics, chemistry, mathematics are forced to take up engineering because it has better job prospects.
I had alignment towards subject 'X' but my marks were good in subject 'Y'. When we went for career counselling, the counseller adviced me to go for career in 'Y'. Counsellers' logic is correct but I still think we should go for career in 'X'. One last example, if a childs parents are businessmen but the child is interested in sports, adventurous activities then army, navy, airforce will open up a new exciting world to him but parents may not allow child for that career.
2. Highly paid jobs:
Generally high paid jobs are high responsibility jobs but its not always true and we should be able to distinguish between the two. For example in a company sales people are evaluated on the basis of orders they brought to the company. Its very difficult to find a company with a long term vision which can consider the work of sales people in sowing the seeds which will grow and become fruit bearing trees in the future. Many companies may give attractive salary offers to the beginners but in future, the growth in terms of learning/skills may not be much.
3. Low paying jobs:
Generally in small companies and start-ups people get better exposure and responsibility regarding the job profile. Even though they get less salary, their learning curve will be steeper compared to a person working in a giant company. In giant company you will be given a small task of a project where as in small company visibility of the project is good. Even in big companies people who do R&D kind of work for the product are paid less.
4. How much money do I need?
On an average everyone thinks to have a job which can fulfil the necessary requirements of life like a house, children's education in decent school, etc. But it is always true that demand is always more than supply i.e. expense is greater than income. We have to learn to compromise and maintain an Equilibrium between our needs and resources.
Disclaimer:
If you have High Interest and being paid very handsomely then you are one of the few exceptional people in the world. The above article is not applicable for you. If you can share your experience we all will be glad to hear.
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