Who needs Career Counselling?
Written by: Supti Karmakar 2 Minute Reads “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." — Confucius Choosing a career for a student, has either been a hobby or an assumed duty, for not just parents but, also the near and dear ones here in our country! On a lighter note, we even have rituals during Annaprashan (custom of giving the first solid food to a baby in Bengal and other parts of India) in which certain objects like pen, books, some food, soil, and gold are placed in front of the baby each object representing the baby’s future. The baby is then encouraged to pick an object and whatever he chooses is seen to symbolize his future prospects. All this when the baby is just learning to eat his first solids...! Jokes apart, how I wish choosing a career would have been so easy, just pick and go! In fact, choosing a suitable career path is an acute problem in our country even today as, in many homes parents still force their kids to choose from only