There has always been a controversy
surrounding the issue of whether or not people should have a variety of jobs
before settling in a long-term occupation.
Adults, in many cases, advise the young
generation to stick to one field and carry on their job for a long time.
However, trying different jobs is an essential
part in one’s life due to the following reasons:
broadened perspectives and increased life span.
First and foremost, people should experience a wide range
of jobs to widen their perspectives. What I mean is, it is not enough to have a
single job to understand this complex world. It is admittedly true that
people who commit, committing their
most of their time into a single task, can be a
specialist in their fields, but they would narrow down their view to understand
the rest other parts of the world (중간에 한 번 끊어주세요). The story of my father shows
this case to be true. My father, who has had
been engaged engaging in the publishing
industry for the past 35 years, recently retired
from his job. He used to be proud of himself because he thought he knew
everything about books and it is true that he is one of the best experts in the
industry. However, people who were close to him evaluated him as arrogant and the know-it-all type because he overlooked and
underappreciated the talents of other people. He never had a job in different
industries, and thus, he never understood the joy and sorrow of other people
who have had different jobs. The narrowed
sight makes made him as a person who is
condescending thereby easily ignoring the story of others. Hence, one should
experience different jobs before being a specialist in one field to understand
other worlds by deepening the perspectives.
Furthermore, engaging
in a long-time job is almost impossible in the
modern era because people, nowadays, have a longer expected life span than in
the past. Previously, the average life span was at most 70 so people have
had a very limited of time after they
stepped out of their jobs. However, many people
now live much longer, almost they become 100 sometimes
reaching a hundred years old. Those phenomenon This indicates that people, even after they retire
from their long-time careers, should get another job. This is illustrated by a
recent research conducted by Korean Health Association studying the lives of
people after resigning from their occupations.
Findings show that people who have had a
variety of job experiences are more easily get can
acquire more easily another job after they retired. On the other
hand, people who have had a limited
experience by only engaging in their own fields struggle to start a new work
life because they lack of other skills and employers think that it is
already late for seniors to be proficient at another area. Therefore, people
should go through different job experiences before they decide their long-term
career to prepare for a longer life after they
retire.