Making a good career choice is not easy. However, this is necessary if one does not want to change courses several times before eventually finding the suitable course. Young children in particular often have a very romanticized view of certain professions. This is often all too evident in their playing. Boys would like to become pilots, train drivers, doctors or truck drivers. Girls often play school, mother or saleswoman at an early age. There is nothing wrong with that, but if they are actually faced with a career choice a little later, they need to know what that profession entails and which study fits with it. Boys who want to become architects only discover at university that this is an education that often has more to do with art than with the reality of construction. There are many more examples.
Every profession has nice and less nice sides
No profession provides a dream job. Every profession has fun activities and less fun activities. In a job as a teacher, for example, you have many nice contacts with students and can mean something to them in their education and training. On the other hand, youth can also be extremely difficult and brutal and the teacher sometimes has to deal with aggressiveness from a student and sometimes even from the parents. A teacher can also sometimes experience a lot of trouble on the Internet from students who post videos or negative, often unrealistic and incorrect information, about him/her online.
See what your child is good at
If your child can learn well, is interested in his environment and achieves good results at school, then a follow-up study is an obvious choice. If the child has mediocre points, but is very handy and active, then a study in which he or she can also develop practically is a good choice in that direction. Therefore, look carefully at your child, at his/her interests and try to notice what he/she is good at and what he/she is not good at.
Talk to the child about a career choice
Some children know very early what they want to become. One person draws plenty of houses in all shapes and sizes and says that he likes building houses. The other cannot keep away from the computer and is already programming the craziest programs and games for friends at the age of ten. Such children are of course the easiest for parents when it comes to career choice. At most, they need some guidance on the path they need to follow in order to end up in the profession of their choice.
Children who have doubts about their career choice
Children who have doubts and do not know which direction they want to take should be helped through conversations and a test. Does the child know approximately what he or she wants, but is it still not clear? Then make sure that they receive information about the different options in that field of study. Submitting a career choice test is also a sensible measure.
Good at math, biology or geography
A child who is good at mathematics, biology and geography should not only receive information about being a teacher, but also, for example, about a job in the business world, a study of economics, further study in one of the mentioned directions and the professions that become accessible as a result. . Then even the profession of a real researcher at one of the universities may be a possibility.
Mesmerized by the weather
A child who enjoys the weather, the position of the stars and the moon, reads books about it and is very interested in it, should receive information not only about a job as a meteorologist at a weather station or at an airport, but also about a job as an astronomer. Talk to the child about his interest. Find out whether it is a temporary fad or a real enthusiasm that will last not a few weeks, but a few years.
Opportunities to stimulate
For example, give it a weather station on its birthday. Discuss the weather and its possible specialties. For example, take such a child to a planetarium. Try to feed interest and curiosity with information. This way, the child will know more quickly whether he or she wants to pursue this as a career later or not.
Studying towards the capabilities
Children who study in the direction of their interest and abilities usually do not switch to another direction during their studies. This saves money and energy, both for them and for you as parents. Some parents would like to see their child follow the same career path as the one they once chose, but it is not wise to gently coerce the child into that direction.
Reluctantly going to work for a lifetime
Protect your child from a lifetime of working in the wrong profession. If the mutual bond is good, children will like to please their parents, but if the career choice is not their own choice, they will later work day in and day out in a profession that they do not really like. The study will also not come as easily to them as a study in the direction of their interest. Every child is unique and should have the right to make their own choice.
Help us find sensible study options for your child
Help your child find a field of study with a future. Some courses train you for jobs in a luxurious part of our society. That is not a problem, as long as the trees lead to the sky, but if cuts have to be made, those luxury jobs are the first to disappear. Studies in the tourism industry, leisure, beauty care and the arts provide few or no jobs in tight times. However, related studies, such as pedicure (health), occupational therapy or logistics, can still be effective even in tighter times. So make sure that your child has a future with his profession.
Related fields of study
If your child still wants an education in the arts or in a field where you do not see him or her earning a good salary later, look around for related fields, for which the child can possibly take a (often shorter) course later, just in case. not finding a job later. This way you are reassured and the child can follow the course of study of his/her interest.
There are also various responsible options within one and the same study
Usually, at a certain level of study, there are different directions that one can take afterwards. After all, many people are currently working on a completely different (but often related) profession than the one they initially chose and studied.
You don’t have to worry about the future
During secondary school, most children do not yet see the point of studying. They must therefore be checked during that period. Not only by the teachers, but also by their parents. Control and supervision of their school performance is necessary. After all, if even adults perform better when their boss is around, this certainly applies to most children.
Children find their own way
However, children are like cats: they usually end up on their feet. Just help them find their own way, both in life and in their career choice, but let them choose for themselves. Then your child will have fewer problems with studying and you will have fewer problems with your child.