Interests are a person’s like or dislike and are characterized by the person’s intensity of feeling about a subject or things (Hooley, 2012). Interests are learned from parents, in school, from friends, and from your life long experiences. For instance, when one engages in various activities he reacts with specific feelings or attitudes. You may like or dislike those activities, you feel challenged or bored, competent or clumsy. These personal reactions plus the feedback one receives about his performance help to shape and focus your interest. One continues to acquire interests throughout his life and this in return influences the reasoning and choices one makes including career choices (Hewitt, 2010). Interest can change, as we experience life and meet more people; we become interested in new things and discard some of our old interests. We also develop more complex thinking and understanding process, and we may even seek new interest and activities with the hope of improving ourselves and making life more exciting (Hewitt, 2010). One the interest of one keeps changes so does the career choice of a person change. One seeks a career that meets his interest at a time hence the career that one may have wished to take when he was young is not what he ultimately does. Edwards & Quinter (2011) showed that personal …show more content…
A record of clubs and activities provides evidence of leadership and the ability to work in groups. The careers most suited for someone with many extracurricular activities on her/his resumé are sales, junior executive positions, and an educational career. Work experience has been seen as the way a student demonstrates responsibility and dependability. Those that are in the position to have the best contacts are students with parents who hold supervisory or executive positions. Super stated that can be a hard fact to face, sometimes it is not what one does know, but who does he
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As a result, people do not choose what they want in life. But Lao Tzu advises, “In work do what you enjoy” (938). We tend to do things we have no interest in for multiple reasons. Some of us want to earn large amounts of money and we choose a job we have no passion in. This directs us to work with miserable hearts.
Sally, an 11 year old girl in 6th grade has math and English homework due tomorrow, but she has a community service project to attend for K-Kids tonight, and a soccer game afterwards. By the time she is done with all of her extracurricular activities, showering, and eating dinner, it is already 9:00pm. She now has time to do her homework. She finishes her English homework by 9:25 with no problem, but has some difficulty with her math homework. She asks her parents for help, but neither of them remember how to do the kind of math problems she has.