Finishing school is the beginning of the independent life for millions of schoolleavers. Many roads are open before them: vocational and professional schools, institutes and universities. They can

Finishing school is the beginning of the independent life for millions of schoolleavers. Many roads are open before them: vocational and professional schools, institutes and universities. They can start a working career, go into business or continue schooling to receive a higher education. There are one or a few institutes in nearly every Russian city. There’re plenty of them in Moscow and St Petersburgh. If you want to get a working profession you can enter a technical college. They say there are over 2000 professions in the world so it is rather difficult to choose and make a decision. Some follow their own choice and some follow their parents’ advice.

Careers do not happen. People train for them. How much training is needed depends on the kind of career chosen. Some jobs take only a few months of training. Others take several years. Certain careers need college or university graduation. What are the main reasons to choose your future profession? Little children usually dream of having an extremely unusual profession. Some of them want to become spacemen; others want to discover new lands, others – to dive in deep seas. But most of them want to be famous, so they usually want to become a star – a film star, a pop star, a football star, etc.

First of all the profession should seem interesting to you. An exiting job that you really like is an important component of happiness in life. Then you should consider the problem of earning the living. The most fascinating job will bring no satisfaction if you starve. And there is a very up–to–date problem of unemployment: you should choose such a profession that you could find yourself a job.

I have asked myself a lot of times: “What do I want to be when I leave school?” A few years ago it was difficult for me to give a definite answer. As the years passed I changed my mind a lot of times about which science or sphere of industry to specialize in. There are always some young people who know very well what they are going to do after school. They can tell you lots of interesting things about their future profession and what college or university they should graduate from to get the profession they have chosen. I think I am one of them. As for me, I made up my mind to become a …. This profession …

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