Hi there to our future stars, today we would like you to learn about another important life skill: how to succeed in your career. You may be thinking: "I am just a kid”, but it is important that you start to learn and understand these important aspects of adult life so that when you become an adult you will be well prepared.
The Basics
Careers are the work that adults do over time to make the world around them a better place. For doing this important work, adults get paid and can use the money they receive to take care of their needs, wants and desires for themselves and others. As you work, you will get opportunities to be promoted to higher responsibilities, earn more money or even move from one organization to another so that you do can more to make the world a better place.
Success in a career is not just about making more money or being famous, it is about making a difference in the lives of people around you with the work that you do. Like being a great teacher that helps young children to learn; a great engineer that invents new machines; or being a political leader who makes laws and governs the society properly.
Every career can be successful
Every career offers amazing opportunities for success. No matter what career choice you make, there is an opportunity for you to do it well and be very successful. There is no career choice that is better than another. It really depends on how prepared you are to do the right things to make that career successful.
Love the Work that You Do
Adults that love the work that they do, enjoy their careers and are very successful. You can love any job so long as you take time to understand what the job requires from you and you choose to learn and become better at doing those things. No one was born to be a doctor, engineer or teacher. You just have to choose, love the work you do and work towards being successful.
Don’t compete against others
Successful adults know that you shouldn’t try to compete with people around you. The only person you should compete against at work is what you did the day before. Every day, try to be better than you were the previous day. By doing this you are getting better and you are focused on what really important.
Be excellent at everything you do
Don’t take shortcuts in life. Try to do everything the best way possible. One of my favourite movies that explains this is called ‘The Three Idiots”. You should get your parents to get it for you. You will enjoy it and learn many important lessons from the movie.
Keep learning
Learning does not stop when you finish school. All through your career you will have to keep learning and improving just like the way you are doing in school. The more you learn and practice what you have learned, the more successful you will be at your career. Some adults think learning ends once they live school. No, you learn throughout your life.
Remember these tips as you go through school and up to when you become an adult. You are lucky to have this type of information shared with you now, because many adults find out these important things when they are much older and struggling with their careers. For you, it’s going to be an amazing journey!
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