What Do You Really Want to be When You Grow Up?

There is also the case of career trends. Back in the late “90s, it was the technology boom and taking a computer-related course was the most “in’ thing. Now it has changed to the tune of nursing programs and that new catchphrase called “business outsourcing”. Nursing schools have mushroomed all over the country, and established institutions have been sprucing up their programs to cater to the overwhelming demand of the youth who are in search of respectable work in greener pastures. Call centers have multiplied overnight in the course of a year, assuring applicants that while the hours are ungodly, at least they’ll get a hefty paycheck. These two seems to be the last great hope for many of our brethren. There was never a day that I did not see a nursing student in my daily commutes from school, or an edition of the classifieds that weren’t replete with outsourcing advertisements. Several professionals are even ditching their present work and joining in on the bandwagon. Though I believe that there are people who are genuinely interested in pursuing a nursing degree or work in a call center, I wonder whether some of them really want to do this.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Or better yet, how do you see yourself ten years from now? If you have an answer to that, then be glad. We all have a purpose and a destiny. But remember, growing up doesn’t end from there, and neither do your dreams.