▶ Your Answer :
Various opinions may exist
over the argument whether university students concentrate on majors that are
relevant with increasing job prospects. Many people nowadays argue that
students should prepare to get a job from the early stage of life by studying
promising fields in the job market. However, studying what they truly want
regardless of increasing job prospects is much more important due to the
following reasons: the satisfaction level of one’s life and the possibility of
being an expert.
First and foremost,
students should study the field they have the most interest in because
following the demand of potential employers from their college days will lower
their life satisfaction. Reflecting on my personal experiences, I have seen so
many cases that my friends choose ‘business’ or ‘economics’ as their majors
without much consideration because those are the preferable fields in the current
job market. However, they often struggle and regret about their choices because
they soon realize that those majors are completely different with their
aptitudes or interests. It is admittedly true that students whose resumes are
equipped with popular studying fields easily get a job. However, many of them
end up quitting their job after one or two years and get into graduate school
to study the field they have wanted and finally become happy. Those examples
prove that pursuing the study field that one does not genuinely want can lead
people to have unsatisfactory and regrettable lives.
On top of that, there is
a higher probability of being an expert when someone studies what they want rather
than choose their fields that are commensurate with job prospects. According to
surveys that have been recently conducted by LinkedIn, which is the social
media that connects professional people, more than 80 percent of highly
successful people chose their major in university based on their interest. In
other words, they followed the inner passion of themselves. For those kinds of
people, there is not much stress when they study because their studying fields are
one of the biggest joy in their lives. My advisor in the graduate school,
Jin-Nam Choi, who is one of the world-best experts in organizational behavior,
once interviewed that his major 20 years ago was not very lucrative so he was
very anxious about his own decision. However, he now mentions that a lot of his
peers, including himself, are acknowledged specialists in their own fields because
they could solely commit to their major without day and night. If they listened
to the trends of job market at that time, they may now become one of salarymen
who barely have their own specialties.
To sum up, one should decide
the studying field according to their aptitudes, talents, and interests rather
than considering job prospects. The explanations above sufficiently prove the
advantages of my point of views that cannot be overemphasized. |