What Drives your Career?

This blog is dedicated to all my friends here at NCST, Bangalore so that they ask themselves the question, try to think about the reason why they chose to be here.
To all the rest of the people reading this blog, whatever phase of life you are in, think why you are doing it. Is it because your parents asked you or wanted you to do? Or is it because it was the only thing to do? Or was it money that attracted you to this career?
Or was it because YOU wanted to do it?
Most of us would reply saying the reason as one of the first three? Why is it that very few people choose a career that they want?
The actual time for a child/person to choose his/her career comes after his/her 10th std or after school. At that point of time they choose whether they want to get into some science related stream or arts or commerce or something else.
Personally, even I went through a lot of confusion regarding what I wanted to do as a career even till as late as my last year at graduation. Even you might have faced the same. I felt like doing something different- I wanted to become a pilot but then due to health reasons and also other reasons I could not do it. But also I used to like programming a lot. Every tough program was a new challenge for me. I used to play with my PC like it was a toy and loved experimenting with things.
The reasons that drove my career were mostly liking and constraints due to my health and some restrictions by my parents.
But not all are as lucky. There are people who cannot pursue their dreams due to financial constraints, some are forced by their parents to do something they don’t have the slightest interest in, some get influenced by popular trends and get involved in the rat race for medical and engineering while others look for the money involved in a career rather than interest.
I strongly think that the world would benefit greatly if people started choosing their careers according to their liking instead of the other reasons as I said. This trend has already started in the developed countries where half of the people don’t even do graduation, but still live a very content life doing what they like and even earning well.
I think whatever we do, we should do it from the bottom of our heart then only can we expect it to be perfect.
So friends whenever you choose your career, listen to your hearts along with your brains.