FAMILY AND CAREER Are like North Pole and South Pole

FAMILY AND CAREER

Are like North  Pole  And  South  Pole

When people say family is most important, it doesn’t have to mean work is less important, it can just mean: “work has helped me make who I am & I enjoy sharing that with the ones I love.” 

 Family, as well as career, is an integral part of our life. Neither family, nor career can be separated from each other, but they can’t be mingled together either. Both family & career have their own importance. Coming on to family, we can undoubtedly say that family is the most precious gem, we are gifted with. It means a lot to everyone. In fact, family is the most important unit of society. It is the single most important influence in a child’s life. We are never born good, it’s our family that inhibits all the good in us. From our very 1^st moment, we depend on our family for all our needs. All the moral values and spiritual & cultural heritage of society are passed on through family. It’s all the love, affection & utter care that shapes the future of a child. Family is the place where communion is brought about & love towards each person is recognized, accepted & respected. It is the 1^st learning place of an individual in this world. Whenever we are in trouble, we seek help from family & our family is always there for us. We might change our friends later in our life but we never want to lose our family members. Mutual affection, trust & distribution of responsibilities in the family are the things that strengthen this relationship.

                                                    Moving on to career, we can say that is a long term productive occupation that culminates in a central purpose in life. It is something that motivates us to face challenges & grave out success from deep mines of difficulties. Careers vary greatly in the type of work involved & in the ways they influence a person’s life. Everyone has a career of some kind. Most people build a career to help them satisfy certain goals. A person without having a career aspiration is just like garbage of society which is of no importance. There’s no meaning of life without a will of building career. The kind of career which we choose affects our life in many different ways. By making wise decisions regarding our career, we can easily accomplish the kind of life we want. Achieving our career goals gives us immense satisfaction & success. We are our self-responsible for exploring our career field by determining our aptitude, interests, personal characteristics & values. It is something that shapes our future & leads us towards the doorstep of happiness, satisfaction & fame.

                                                However, both family & career play a crucial role in one’s life. There is a very thin, blurry line in between family & career, i.e., personal & professional life. So, it’s very necessary to maintain a proper balance in between family & career, so that equity can be attained. One shouldn’t be inclined towards either family or career totally. Both should be given equal weightage.

                                                Apart from all this, it’s very necessary that we don’t mix up our career with our family, we can’t sacrifice one at another’s cost. But the bitter truth is that, family as wonderful as they are, can’t achieve us that deep sense of achievement. No matter how awesome your kids, spouse, parents & loved ones become because of your sacrifice & help, you can never claim their achievements for yourself. The reason is that, people have free will. And there’s no meaning sacrifice your life for the sake of your loves ones. It’s because, if you are an unsuccessful person, even your closed ones start maintaining distance with you & you yourself will feel humiliated & getting apart from everything.

                                                   It’s is also true that family & career roles are interrelated. Family is essential element of our life but it isn’t sufficient enough to bring complete happiness. It’s very necessary to make wise decisions concerning career & then focus on it to attain desired satisfaction & happiness. Both family & career run in a mutual correspondence but they are independent too. That’s why family & career should be treated like North Pole & South Pole, which means that they should not be mingled together, but keeping in mind that they can’t be isolated totally either. Work should be confined to work-place & family time shouldn’t be altered.

                                                    Overall, your career is definitely more important than anything. Since, we have a base for the coming life, we have to pay proper attention at our career first. If our foundation will not be strong then it’s sure that we’ll face several hurdles & it’ll become quite difficult to overcome these hurdles. But once we build our career successfully, there is practically no hurdle that can stop our way & only then we’ll be able to make our family happy.

                                                    Finally, we reach to the conclusion that we don’t really have to choose, we just have to manage, both family & career which have to co-exist. This leads to a healthy balanced life & if we manage it well, we can sail out through any difficulty and cope up from all sort of problems without compromising on our future life.