The Choice Of A Profession

Every Youngman has to face the problem of the choice of a profession. The job ratio is very low. On the correct solution of this problem depends his success and prosperity in life. Few youngmen are in a position to determine this for themselves. They must be guided in this matter by those who are superior to them in wisdom and experience. The parents and the teachers should perform this duty. They know their power, and have studied their natural inclinations. They are interested in their welfare and are better able to tell them what to do. A grown up young man, of course, can study his own inclinations and aptitudes and explain his won views to others. This would help his teachers and parents to decide the question to benefit.


Different professions require different qualities. Unless a man possesses the requisite qualification for a profession, it would be worse than useless for him to enter it. Educated youngmen find it hard to choose a suitable profession by which to earn a decent living. They are attracted by lucrative professions. They join one or the other profession without thinking whether it would suit them or not. A shopkeeper must be active tactful, wide-awake, have a strong common sense, and be calculating. A teacher, of course, must have brains and patience, but should on no account show any weakness for filthy lucre. A man of shy and retiring disposition can never succeed in a business in which energy is required. A man of restless disposition will have no chance in an occupation where patience is needed.

Choice of a profession has become a very difficult matter for youngmen in Pakistan. The choice is very much limited and out youngmen attaches imaginary dignity to certain professions. They forget that all professions are noble. They dislike manual labour and mechanical pursuits. Government service has great attraction for them because they think it carries a certain dignity and prestige. Youngmen with bright university careers have been known to enter government service as mere clerks. There is chaos everywhere. There are teachers who ought to be contractors; there are lawyers who ought to be traders; there are doctors who ought to be grocers.

In Pakistan great care is needed to train young men from the very beginning for the professions they are it for. Different men possess different faculties and none of these faculties is without use. The great fault of Pakistani parents is that unless a boy qualifies for a clerkship, or for an overseer ship or become a doctor, he is considered worthless. But, perhaps, the parents and boys are not entirely to blame in this matter. There are no openings in these lines.