▶ Your Answer :
Is it better for young people to select a job in the same field as their parents than to choose a different career for themselves? Some people might agree with this statement for various reasons. However, I believe that people should carefully think about other factors than their parents’ jobs before choosing their career. Therefore, I disagree with the statement. To begin with, young people should firstly consider their talents when they choose a job. To be successful in a job career, one should have enough talents related to his or her field. Without talents, he or she would fail in his or her field. For example, my mother’s job was a physician. She wanted my younger brother to be a physician, too. However, he was not good at subjects like mathematics and science, which are very important subjects for a physician. On the other hand, he had a special talent for arts and he finally decided to apply to design school. If he chose to go to medical school simply because his mother was a doctor, he would have been failed to complete extensive coursework needed for graduation. Moreover, lucrativity also plays a significant role when deciding a job. Whether a job is profitable or not changes over time. In other words, once a lucrative job can be a waste of money in the future. For instance, most parents in Korea want their children to be a doctor because this profession allows them high incomes. However, many scientists expect that some day the artificial intelligence would supplant nearly all of the work of a human doctor. If this case holds true, a doctor would be an unpromising job in the future. This example clearly shows that one should carefully consider a job’s lucrativity in the future to be successful in his or her career. In conclusion, if one wants to choose a job, he or she should think about both his or her talents and a job’s lucrativity. For this reason, I oppose to the statement that following one’s parents’ professions would be surely beneficial to him or her. |