The choice of a profession is very difficult. It is not an easy job. Every young man has to face this question, what profession shall I choose?. Various professions required various qualities, and unless a man possesses the requisite qualifications for a professions it would be worse than useless for him to enter it. Educated young men find it hard to choose a suitable profession by which to earn decent living. They are attracted by lucrative professions, and join one or the other without thinking whether it would suit them or not, and the result is failure. Sometimes, they lose their heart and give up their efforts.
Now we take the example of an advocate. He must have great argumentative powers, courage, self-command, and industry. A shopkeeper must be active, tactful, wide awake, have strong commonsense, be a bit be-lihaz and calculating. A doctor should possess presence of mind, and practical skill and sympathy. A teacher, of course, must have brains and patience, but should on no account show any weakness for money, for filthy lucre. A Government servant must be obedient and regular like a machine. A man of shy and retiring disposition can never succeed in a business in which is required, and a man of restless disposition will have no chance in an occupation in which patient application and close study are needed. A man should choose his profession according to his own temperament.
For Pakistani young men it has become very difficult to choose a profession. The choice very much limited, and the Pakistan attach imaginary dignity to certain professions. They forget that all professions are noble. They dislike manual labor and mechanical pursuits. Government service has great attractions of them, as they think it carries a certain dignity and prestige along with it. Young men with bright University careers, who could become great scholars and scientists, have been known, and partly through wrong choice, to enter Government service as mere clerks. The struggle is so great that graduates are forced to undertake any work, which comes handy, without have any time to consider whether they are fit for it on not. The result is that there is chaos every where. There are teachers who ought to be contractors, there are always who ought to be traders, and there are doctors who ought to be grocers. no one is at thigh place. Everyone is unhappy and unsatisfied.
Talents and potentialities differ from person to person. Some persons find themselves suitable in the field of science while others are interested in industry. Again there are persons who find great pleasure in literary field but if by any reason they opt some other field, their life becomes miserable.
Therefore it is very wise to choose a career or profession with great care. Psychology can help us in this matter. It should be made use of in finding out mental capacity of a person. The profession so chosen will enable the mental gifts of a person to blossom.
The great fault of Pakistani parents is that, unless a boy qualifies for a clerkship, or for an overseer ship, or becomes a doctor, he is considered worthless. If he can become a musician, a mechanic, a gymnast, a sailor, or a soldier, why not train him for one of these professions for which he is fit? But, perhaps, the parents and boys are not entirely to blame in this matter. they do not get proper opportunities to choose right profession for them.
