Career counselling- The dilemma

I thought a lot about what i wanted to do in the mega project, what were the problems that had affected me in the past, and what are the problems that are still affecting my community. The problem that i observed is still prevalent in my community is career counselling in Dera Ghazi Khan.

Owing to the lack of career counselling, students keep choosing careers they are not satisfied with and they keep wasting their time

The problem is important for me because it had affected me for a long time. It is because of lack of career counselling and lesser exposure to different other fields that i kept wasting my time pursuing MBBS, when i can achieve my goals through other medical professions as well. Another one of my friend wasted three years pursuing MBBS, and then he decided to change his career path entirely and went for engineering.

The problem is that this culture of only pursuing MBBS or engineering has destroyed so many innovative minds. Students never have the exposure to some other fields until they fail their MCAT or ECAT. But when it happens, they already have wasted so much time that its pointless. Also, most of the times they never know what their true goal is, why are they pursuing certain profession.

I talked to parents, students and my fellows that what they feel about the lack of career counselling, and most of them said that they would never have chosen their career had they already known about it or had they known about any other profession. Meanwhile the lack of trust from parent’s side regarding their child’s decision making was disturbing.

I want to provide career counselling to the community here so that things can become better for the future generation and they do not suffer from the problems that my batch mates suffered.

I tried to talk to school students as well, I contacted my headteacher regarding the matter, that if I could get a session with the school students and get their insight. But unfortunately, because of the Coronavirus situation all over the world, the school was closed.

I hope that i would be able to develop this into a thing where i would be able to give something back to the community