How to Choose the Right Profession

What do you want to be when you grow up? What profession do you want to follow in your life? What do you want to work with? Have you already decide what are you going to study for?

Questions and more questions that surround everybody's lives - kids, teenagers and adults. To the young ones they come in a subtle way, masked as family curiosity; to the young people, it is subject of extreme urgency, impossible to be delayed. The chronic pressure can create scars, sometimes not that easy to disappear. Due to the constant confrontation, some people may lose their capacity to think clearly and may move towards the future grasped to some "any profession".

Life has different duration for each one of us. While for some it means one single breath; for others, it means to watch many sunsets. Life is not a continent surrounded by the ocean, but a boat being shaken by the ferocity of the waves from one direction to the next. Where is the stability of such boat? As much as in life. Unstable, unexpected and volatile.

What about the plans? What are they for? Do they add some stability to our future? Maybe yes, maybe not. There are several ways to adapt the boat to the ocean. To choose a profession is to adapt our boat the best we can, to waterproof its cover, to install a motor, to bring provisions. However, we can never forget about the ocean. In constant agitation, change and fury.

The best boat for a period of the trip is not necessarily the best boat for the entire trip. The profession we choose during our teenager years may be different than the one we want to follow as adults. The wind may change the direction of the trip, lead the boat to other waters.

Life open a thousand of possibilities, short cuts or different routes; but one should not necessarily invalidate the other. The knowledge and abilities should complement each other, never invalidate. To follow a profession may be the beginning, a step into the future. But a profession should never stop new possibilities, new professions, new directions. Should never limit the compass.