How Does Economic Conditions Affect Career Choice

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Influence of Economic conditions on career choice

There are many factors that influence a person’s career choice and change their perception on what they wish to do. One of the major influences is a person’s financial situation. When parents are dissatisfied with their jobs they express their frustrations to their children. This in turn influences children not to follow in the footsteps of their parents and aim for different goals to avoid the unhappiness that their parent’s feel. (Sasha Brown-Worsham, 2012)

Even those living in rural areas are not fully satisfied with their lives and aspire for something better than what they have. They feel that they are deprived financially through being unable to afford additional training

They wish to improve their lifestyle and the only way to do this will be to earn a higher salary. These acts as something for students to strive for or as a goal that they wish to achieve and are thus a good motivation. Their background will be a contributing factor to whether they are satisfied with a small amount of money or not. Some who live lives that are not of a high standard may not see money as a priority and be satisfied with their standard of life. They will therefore not aim highly and end up doing a profession that requires minimum work that is of an average salary. On the same page children who live a life of a high standard will wish to live the same life that they already live. They are satisfied with their lives and will have to adjust to life where they cannot buy the same quality of clothes or the same amounts of food. They will have to give up certain things if they earn a lower salary. They may not be willing to give up these things. They will therefore choose a career that involves a high salary to ensure that they continue living the same standard of life. (Sasha Brown-Worsham,

Some sources believe that if your mother does not work you are more likely to have lower career goals than those who have working mothers. (Global Post). If your mother is a high-powered executive, the child will have higher career goals, according to research published in 2006 in the "Journal of Extension." The child will not see the fact that their parents work as a detriment and will see the accomplishments that their parents have as something to strive for. Parents may also influence their child’s career choice through communication or lack thereof. If parents talk openly with their children about career choices the child is more likely to be aware of their options and aim high. The child will have an understanding of all career choices and is more likely to be aware of what they are capable of doing. With a parents encouragement the child will feel that they can do what they want to do and will thus chose a career of a high standard. Contrastingly if the parent does not encourage conversation about careers the child may feel discouraged to do certain things and aim low. On one hand those parents whom discuss their occupations and how they derive satisfaction from their jobs may encourage their children to work by showing them how much they enjoy working. In this way children also obtain first hand knowledge on the careers their parents do. This may