Career Building
During our academic career through school, college and university, we are advised by our parents, teachers and well wishers to do well in exam. and have a good grade for future. When we come out of academic sphere as a young person in open world, we mostly look for a good job rather than a right opportunity to build our career. The reason being socio-economic, we are driven more by the trend of the time rather than deciding the right course after thorough introspection. We must know, what are we looking in our life as we progress. Is it name and fame, money and material wealth or the urge to excel in our chosen field irrespective of the outcome ? Most of us falter as we neither look for a right answer nor know how to find the right answer.
The right role of a teacher is to find the special qualities a child does have and then help him or her to mould in formative years in the school to develop that trait into strength. Unfortunately, the days of dedicated teachers are gone as the enormity of task to manage too many students and also livelihood in a competitive materialistic world, do not permit most teachers to play that role. The role of old age custom of Guru is displaced from a teacher and its place is taken by many professional counselors, who do more of symptomatic analysis guided by psychometric tools and procedures. This does not help to get into the root and find the right answer. I think, the mentorship on the job or otherwise from highly experienced professionals with some fervour and direction ( like what Mr. Narayan Moorthy did for Infosys, Mr, Bill Gates for Microsoft etc, who are gigantic personalities) with no strings attached, could be the best solution to help deserving youngsters to find the route map to build their career.
We hardly know of our great heritages to make life meaningful for each of us and useful for the humanity, which are depicted in Veda and Vedanta. Veda though stands for knowledge, but goes beyond. Mere reading a book and accumulating information is not the knowledge. It is the "understanding" that matters most. It provides the clarity in our thoughts and hence makes us decisive in actions. So, what we need to emphasize to our youngsters as mentor is to try to understand a subject rather than memorize it. Once we really understand, we start enjoying it. We are at home with it, because it is analytical capability that comes into play and help us assess a situation in right perspective.
So, for career building, we need to "understand" what we want in life and how we should achieve our goal. It is needless to mention, hard work has to follow to sharpen our abilities and excel, because we need to be grinded properly. Even a diamond needs fine cuts and as much to give the lusture and be precious. Each of aspiring youngster could be a star of his/her own and a gem for the society, if they are steadfast in their resolve to properly "understand' , put "hard work" and then evolve through "challenges" of life, which is the right task master to enhance his/her brilliance.It is not mere money, false prestige, uncontrolled ego should get undue privilege in our life as mostly happens these days in all walks of life. They only create blockade to our real advancement, mentally and morally.
This is what I like to share with my young friends at this site as many of them evinced their interest to be guided by a mentor.
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