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本帖最后由 拒绝失学 于 2017-8-29 12:39 编辑
It is a common issue, confronted by all the senior high school graduates, that whether one should choose his major for the sake of the availability of jobs in that field. Indeed, considering a university student will devote four years in that field, it is exactly a big problem, which should be taken good consideration of. However, there has always been a great dispute over the question. Some people may take the job prospect as first priority, while others will not. In my opinion, although job prospect is essential to students, the job market is unstable, and a student may have other concerns. Therefore, one should not only consider the availability of job, when choosing which subject to study.
Admittedly, job prospect is an important factor to consider, which should not be ignored. Considering the fact that the majority of the family is not wealthy enough to support the student after graduation, the student must attempt to secure a job to support himself. Plus, the knowledge and skills he learnt in university is the most important factor for him to compete in job market. Indeed, a lot of students major in liberal arts, arts, and some basic subjects, will find it typically difficult finding a job. Thus, a lot of people will persuade the high school graduates to choose computer science, statistics, accounting and so forth, as their majors. However, this recommendation is also untenable in some respects.
The fundamental reason why I do not take job prospect as the first priority is that, no one can predict the future condition of the job market. It is known that, a student will spend four years in university before he plunges into the job market. Moreover, a career needs one to devote his whole life and passion. Therefore, it is unknown whether his major will still be competitive after four years. In the past, environmental science is a quite small subject. However, when the environmental problem is getting increasingly serious, the government will need a lot of personnel having a good knowledge of environment, to solve the problem. Similarly, although computer science is hot in today’s world, it is unknown before 20 years ago. Regarding the unpredictability, it seems to me that it is quite unwise to choose one’s major only based on the consideration of job prospects.
On contrary, as far as I am concerned, the students should consider their interest as the first priority. The reason is quite simple, because only if one has enough love and passion for a field, he can do great work in that field. It is hard to imagine that Bill Gates to be a successful lawyer, because he showed little passion for law, although lawyer is a good job in his time. In this term, as long as one has considerable passion and love in that field, he can find a job for himself. Despite the fact that liberal arts majors find difficult getting a job, it is still possible for them to be a great teacher, translator, journalist and so on. If all the people get to learn computer science or other so-called hot subjects, the world will be tragic, since it is impossible for all the people find their meaning of life in that work. After all, happiness and passion really matters. Otherwise, we will be the slave of work.
Based on the analysis above, I think one should not only consider job prospect when he is going to choose his major, although the availability of job is also an important factor to think about. However, before the student concerns the job, he should take his interests and passion into careful consideration. After all, choosing a major is not only choosing a job, but also choosing a field to devote his four years, even his whole life.
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