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When choosing a profession we want it to correspond to our character, reveal our abilities, not to be boring, and not to contradict our principles of life, etc… There are a variety of tests which are to determine which profession is most suitable for this or that person. Can one’s work leave an imprint on his character?
Almost all character features are laid at the genetic level, most of them can’t be changed, even if try hard. However, there is a certain percentage of psychic peculiarities that are transformed throughout life. Do such factors as external circumstances, upbringing, education, environment, location contribute to this?
After leaving school, sometimes yesterday’s children change in an unexpected way, and teachers become surprised to learn that a hooligan has become the head of a large firm, and a moderate student has made a successful academic career. Although, if you look carefully, it is most likely that there have been factors, but you didn’t notice all of them, and quite often teachers stick labels on such extraordinary students, and after getting rid of them, they find their own selves. A good teacher can significantly affect on young students. He is able to develop positive and useful life traits such as: inquisitiveness, diligence, perseverance, commitment. A real teacher perfectly understands that adults change considerably less and in the result of serious problems, in unusual, even extreme cases, that’s why it is so important to everything that is possible for the development of positive qualities in school.
Generally, our priorities for life are rather stable, but still under the influence of some circumstances sometimes new qualities are being formed. For example, people that have changed their jobs note trifle changes in themselves. Basically, we spend half of our life at working place and due to work many things become habits for us and as Latin proverb says,-“A habit is a second nature”. Thus, qualities required for job gradually show up in everyday life.
How do we choose a profession? Creative and professions dealing with public seem more attractive during childhood. Over years, learning at school different disciplines allows a person to determine what he is mainly interested in and what is more close to his heart.
Quite many people confirm that have chosen this or that field of work due to their school teacher who was able to interest them, develop love towards his subject. The choice is also influenced by the people who are surrounding them, mainly parents. Not for nothing there exist dynasties, in which the secrets of handicraft pass down from generation to generation. Sometimes, there are life circumstances that play a decisive role, sometimes tragic, for example the death of a close person makes the child to devote himself to medicine. But whatever may affect the choice, it is obvious: if a person takes the matter seriously, he gradually begins to some extent identify with a “typical representative” of his profession. Dividing all the professions into several major groups, one can single out the key features of each of them and find out which of these properties help in life, and which on the contrary create problems.
