1.
CHOOSE SUBJECTS THAT ARE EASY FOR YOU TO DO
One
of the best tips I got in life regarding choosing subjects to study/career came
from my Maths teacher from India. She told us to choose subjects/tasks (as in
careers) we found easier to do. I think she said that to help us avoid getting the
headaches and frustrations that some get because they were forced to do
something.
2.
LOOK FOR CHALLENGES
While
choosing subjects/tasks that are easy to do, do not avoid taking on challenges.
Often we do not know our strengths until we take on challenges. And while
overcoming the challenges, we see another side/talent in us that was “latent”.
If
you are good with Chemistry but poor in Physics, but want to be a technician in
the future, you must take on Physics also – and work hard to improve your
grades in that subject.
Plumbers,
mechanics and electricians must be good with their Physics as well as in other
sciences.
3.
FOLLOW YOUR PARENTS/GUARDIANS
It
is often the case that children grow up learning a lot from their parents.
Teachers’ children know the routines of their parents and later easily adapt to
a teacher’s life; the same can be said of a doctor, lawyer or mechanic.
A
former student of mine decided to study mechanical engineering because his
father ran a workshop. He was driving motor vehicles and selling their parts
while still in secondary school.
(NB.
But you do not always have to follow the footsteps of your guardians. You can
cut out a different path for your people by venturing into another profession –
one that none of your relatives have ventured into. Yes, you can be a
pioneer.)
4.
BALANCE YOUR CHOICE OF STUDIES
While
working to excel in your favourite choice of subjects, make room to balance
with another subject that may not be your favourite to give a balance in your
learning.
Steve
Jobs, the co-founder of Apple advises students in the sciences or other areas
to learn art. He later combined his art knowledge with Steve Wozniak, his
computer tech pal, to form Apple.
When
I was in Grade 12, I chose to do all the Sciences but made time available to
learn Music, to up my level of comprehending written music.
That
knowledge enabled me to learn to teach myself to play the descant recorder/flute
(the instrument on my profile page). (I might learn to play the flute later
on?)
If
I did Economics instead of Music, my learning life could be very dry. (More on
my choice of subjects in the next post.)
5.
A BIT MORE
If
you want to do Science or Engineering (and become a geologist, chemist, computer
scientist, aircraft engineer, pilot, navigator, etc), you must choose the
Physics/Advanced Maths/Chemistry/Biology strand of studies.
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