“Every lawyer I have met has been untrustworthy. Therefore, all lawyers are untrustworthy. I can’t be a lawyer.” “My insurance salesperson is boring. Therefore, insurance is boring. I won’t look at careers at an insurance company.”:
When I first saw these reasoning or simple statements, it immediately caught my eyes that these reasoning are logical fallacy, in which perhaps would be determined slippery slop. In other words, just because you have meet and experienced with people who are professionals on these fields, doesn’t mean you will become one of them. These are simply, assuming facts that are not proven entirely. Because of these assumptions, people make wrong decisions on most important things. In this case would be making a bad career choice base on these experiences and lack of being open minded, and one person’s enough knowledge. Although few lawyers could be untrustworthy, and few Insurance agents could be boring, many of them are most valued and rewarded with these careers. Therefore, one should be able to decide his or her career path base on his or her capabilities without assuming other people’s lack of performance on these careers. As the author, Katherine Brooks, states that these “these reasoning are poor because you have developed a global perception of it (factor) of limited personal information and experience. Ultimately, they can affect your career choices negatively”.
“Is it true that engineers make higher salaries than liberal arts major? Yes, but-HELLO- they are engineers. Do you want to be an engineer? Then go to engineering school, and be one. Problem solved.” “So, instead of trying to predicting a future you can’t see, you can start your career planning by focusing on what you now right now, and what you can learn.” As this words of Katherine Brooks’ inspired me, I start thinking that perhaps one best way to figure my career goals out are based on what I already know and what I’m familiar with. Indeed, many times we struggle in choosing a career that often and eventually turns out as unfamiliar, confusing, and even more challenging that we thought. At the end of the day, it greatly discourages us from pursuing the same career path. If we stop, we have to start over again, and many times, many of us don’t have those supports such as financially. However, if we could start finding a way through our knowledge and experience, we would have easier way to discover what our talents really are, and what we are good at. If doing so, we wouldn’t have those regrets and struggles in our future. In addition to that, we would make better decisions by spending less time wondering for years of trying to match a perfect career. The truth is that there are no perfect career that you have as happy as you would wish. Everything needs to be workout. You have to work and work to better yourself. Therefore, in order to do that, you have to work in what you are good at and what you enjoy the most. Then Perhaps we should start gathering a lot of information to pick the right one and stick to it.
“We make better decisions when we look at the big picture, stay open –minded, and consider a variety of perspectives.” This is one of the main topics perhaps we should look at. I believe if one makes decisions by looking at bigger picture than just limited information, is even more helpful. As we move on in our lives, there are always things that distract us. When we don’t know much information about general ideas, or what is going on in the real world, we get blind folded easily with things that are not important to us. However, if we are open-minded and analyze different perspectives, the distracting things won’t be able to get our attention and control our behaviors. Instead, we would be able to examine careers actually be useful not only for ourselves, also for the society as a whole.
