A really great career guidance you should use for your child

 I lack the ability to make this blog persuasive. Because, I'm wired to make 'selling' persuasive as when I write posts like those - https://sureview.blog/2019/12/23/space-project-labview-compactrio-for-pressure-test-system-isro-vikram-sarabhai-space-center-launch-vehicles-satellites/

I used to surf a lot when the internet was new on a 14.something kbps modem on Windows 95. It was enjoyable but you naturally limit yourself to textual articles and websites where you know you will find the best information, because of the modem bandwidth then.

So this is a memory from such articles. This may not apply to those seeking career in politics. But I think it will apply really well if you want to do awesome in business, corporate, bio-medicine, space science and so on.

Three things are of importance when determining a career choice. But before, let's accept what is not important. What you want to do before you are 10 or 15 year old isn't important unless you are a born genius or Isaac Newton. And since most of us are certainly not, we will not focus on them in this article.

What is important:

1. The Market (which definitely changes with time mostly unpredictable to most parents).
2. What your child is good at (which may change on its own).
3. What your child is passionate about, if at all (that can change too, so let us read the rest of the article).

A good idea is to not help select a career based on what your child is passionate about. If you can excuse your passions from making you successful or make a lot of money, you will do better with what you are passionate about in your 'Me' time. And you can then dictate about monetizing with your passions. You can 'Fire a customer' if he is a pain in the neck (that is OK too!), so your passions never become painful experience. You can rule this space till you die. But not if your bread, butter and air-ticket (irrespective of which class you fly) depends on it. Agree? Yeah, truth is like that. Ask those who teach poetry for a living because they were passionate about poetry. This usually drives to drinking.

Now here is some sweet truth - 

If you choose a common area based on the markets and what you are good at (which can very well be developed), you will probably fly first class, have lot of time for your partner and children (& passions), can listen to French literature in a winery in Vienna from an American professor and so on.

There are multiple markets luckily. And it is very easy to match the 'Market' part with the 'What your child is good at' part later - because of requirements of specialized professionals as well as polymaths. Your child will be an entrepreneur if the child wants to be one at any age in his or her life. Or perhaps, chooses to be an intrapreneur (See this YouTube video from Iranian born American Entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David to know what's hot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efts0eHXS8I). 

Buy books from the American Academy of Pediatrics when you conceive. Spend time with your spouse and child. See what your child enjoys without a goal in mind. Support her develop on sports, gymnastics and playing. Spend money on awesome teachers. Take proper, professional advice. DO NOT LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS ON WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR CHILD. For heaven's sake do not teach him Chess so you can send him to IIT or Harvard (you are supporting your parents too, right? Besides, your legacy is not at all significant in the grand scheme of things). Please, leave the chess part to computers who do chess better. Do not engineer your child. He is not yours to keep. He did not 'fill a form' and apply to you. He is not liable to care for you because of your chosen reasons.

A safe bet about the market part is Engineering unless the child hates Math. Because the applications of engineering are going to be endless. Engineers are the ones who will be making painless surgeries from their 7 star mansions in California on a patient in Dubai while a doctor will be abruptly called to look at ailing spines at 3AM in the night. Another safer (& probably better) bet is marketing and arts. Sorry, I did not make this happen, I'm just telling you what it is like. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, now Go...