The world has seen that social sciences has become not only productive for society but also lucrative for individuals
SUKKUR: When it comes to choosing a career, decisions are often made and dictated by parents. Adolescent children that have little awareness hardly decide their career of interest. What happens later is that career choices are driven into the wrong direction.
While the mindset of the young generation has changed from choosing between engineering and medicine to newly emerging academic disciplines, we have still a long way to go before claiming to be professionally diverse.
Parents only want their children to become materially successful. The fear that their children will have fewer opportunities to earn discourages them from allowing their child to experiment.
It saddens one to see that many parents are not motivating their children to serve in the army. The deep-rooted perception that is embedded in the society while serving alludes to toughness in the armed forces. The world has seen that the social sciences has become not only productive for society but also lucrative for individuals who have taken them professionally. Fields such as mass communications, sociology, anthropology, criminology, economics and political science have emerged as materially successful academic disciplines as well.
There is a need to sensitise the parents to think beyond making their children doctors and engineers. The young generation also needs to vociferously express their pursuits; the reason being that it is their future that is discussed and decided.
Riaz Mahar
Published in The Express Tribune, January 30th, 2020.
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