Research has shown that children start thinking about their
future career prospect from the age of 5-12. At this stage,
most of them choose careers which they believe are most
likely to make them successful. Many choose careers
relating to medicine, architecture, engineering, law and
others that are lucrative.
They are mostly influenced by the career choice of people
whom the society consider successful and important. As a
result of this, they go into higher institutions hoping to
graduate and work in these areas not minding some facts
like:
1.Passion/ interest
Passion plays a very important role in choosing a course. It
allows one to keep going despite all difficulties. It helps
one to overcome problems faced in the course of study
easily. When a student has interest in his course of study,
it’s never boring to him.
2.Ability to cope (Educationally and Emotionally)
Nowadays, cases of students getting rusticated from
institutions are very common. Some are sent away for bad
behavior or violence while many are advised to withdraw
because of their inability to cope (low G.P).
A lot of students strive to get admission to study courses of
their choice. But, on getting there, many find out that the
workload is too much and they may not be able to cope
thereby leading to drop out.
3.Job Opportunity
The Nigeria of today doesn’t allow one to be too picky when
choosing courses. There are a number of courses which
when studied in Nigeria may not be so favourable. Nigeria
being a developing (third-world) country does not need
such courses at present and do not value them as they
should be. But, no c

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