Key No. 14

Responding To The Requirements Of Mankind

 

 

              "It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth,

              laborious to know what lies within our reach;

              who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?

      As for your intention, who could have learnt it,

              had you not granted Wisdom ..."

                                                       Wisdom 9:16-17

 


An Aimless Attitude L

The anguish, anxiety and worry associated with determining the study, work or career path you wish to undertake can be frustrating. Determining what you would like to do is continually on your mind, or is it? Your parents, friends and contemporaries bombard you with questions regarding your future, and career guidance counsellors give you endless options. Third level education offers wide ranging qualifications and the business world fill columns of newsprint with career opportunity advertisements. Superimposed on these pressures is your own situation. Your capabilities, successes and failures to-date, your level of application and dedication, the distractions and disinterest all have to be considered and accepted.

"The reasonings of mortals are unsure

and our intentions unstable;

for a perishable body presses down the soul,

and this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind".

                                                        Wisdom 9:14-15


You are unable to decide a career path or you avoid considering your future, you study consciously or pass away your study hours aimlessly, you focus on obtaining high grades in examinations or you just hope for the best or couldn't care less.

You get angry, frustrated, despaired or bored.

You are anxious, you feel inferior and you are shy.
You cannot communicate, you have few friends.

You have no confidence.

You want to be a success.


A Concerned Approach J

To overcome these predicaments and to determine your objectives and role in life it is necessary to move away from the aimless, instinctual and reactionary approaches to life. You must now apply creative, confident and concerned directions to your career.

 

Undertaking these directions will minimise and eventually eliminate your anxiety. Knowledge being the first step in conquering anxiety.

 

An acceptance that others have skills and experience different from you will dispel your fears and the opinion you have of feeling inferior to them and thereby overcome your insecurity and shyness.

 

Acknowledging yourself as you are, accepting your own abilities, experience and achievements to-date and that you have potential to grow will eliminate your concern of being inadequate and useless.


By displaying an interest in the concerns, opinions and interests of others and in determining common points of view then avenues of conversation, enquiry and advice are opened up, friendships are formed and true friends are found.

 

To develop your confidence the future must be looked forward to, initiatives taken, new situations welcomed and tasks  actioned not postponed. The unexpected must be coped with, the unknown resolved and difficulties overcome. Problems should be solved, failures confronted and fears conquered. Last but not least assistance must be given, love should be shared and your spirituality reawakened.

 

To be a success you must examine the creative, productive, services and social requirements of humanity and the world around you. Examples of these are shown below. Your abilities are legion but in this specific time and place special training and the resultant skills are required to further develop and improve the standard of living, health and welfare of yourself and your fellow men and women. It is these requirements that you must focus on to determine your area of career contribution.

 

First determine your particular aptitudes within each requirement. These should be revealed to you through your level of academic success to-date, your interests, knowledge of your abilities and limitations, career guidance and parental advice. This process should help you to select specific areas of career contribution within one or more of these requirements.

Determine the various levels of demand associated with each requirement, the opportunities, the training, the time and financial commitment necessary. Select the career path most suited to fulfilling your now positive and realistic aspirations towards responding to a specific or interrelated requirement and take "one giant step for mankind".

"Thus have the paths of those on earth been straightened.."

                                                                         Wisdom 9: 18

                                           

 

A Typical Career Guideline Chart 

 

CREATIVE WORK:

PRODUCTIVE WORK:

SERVICE WORK:

SOCIAL WORK:

Research

Farming /Fishing

Domestic

Welfare

Invent

Clothing

Education

Medical

Design

Building

Communications

Counseling

Plan

Energy

Transport

Charity

Manufacture

Infrastructure

Maintenance

     Sport

Build

Mining

Commerce

Recreational

Test

Machining

Tourism

Environmental

Develop

Equipping

Government

Religious

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

Etc.

 

Options:
Specific career paths.
Interrelated career path.

Tasks:

Design your own guideline chart.
Plot your own career path.



Key Points
1. Avoid An Aimless Approach To Life - As This Will Lead To Frustration

2. Develop A Concerned Approach To Life - This Will Lead To Commitment And Fulfillment

 

 

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