By Ritah Mukasa
What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher, doctor, engineer, soldier or dancer? That is a career. A career is a job that one dedicates their life to doing to make a living. Many people chose careers based on their interests. Others choose careers because they admire people who are in those fields (Role models). It is advisable to start thinking about your career and work towards attaining it.
How to develop your career?
- Decide what you want to be and focus on achieving that dream.
- Find out the skills you will need to do that profession. For instance, if you want to be an engineer, you have to be good at mathematics.
- Identify your passion, strengths and weaknesses. For example, if you love children, you can be a good teacher or social worker.
- When you get a learning opportunity, utilize it. Explore, create and innovate. If your school organises a career day, participate and be active. Do not fear to make mistakes, but learn from them and improve. In that process, you will discover what suits you best.
- Respect people and their cultures. It will help you to work well with different races, tribes, religions and backgrounds. Also, be open to learning other languages.
- Get a mentor who does the profession of interest to guide you. It can be your parents or relative. Spend time with them at their workplace and be familiar with what they do.
- Learn to work as team. Join sports, leadership or academic competitions and get skills.
- Listen to other people’s stories and learn from them.
- Always engage your teachers on how to improve your grades.
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