IDENTIFYING AN ACTUAL PROFESSION
IDENTIFYING AN ACTUAL PROFESSION
HAQ NAWAZ UDHO
2K18/MMC/12
Coming to
identify one’s hidden talent won’t be an easy ride. Naturally, every child is
born with some hidden talent in some particular field. Identification of that
innate quality set-forth the future agenda. Afterwards, the limits and
responsibilities are learnt in accordance with society and culture. While
treading upon the path drawn by hidden talent, one will not go fade-up rather
get satisfied and being known by it in one’s surroundings. One could never
perform any miraculous job if driven against one’s intrinsic motivation and
force. With unnatural profession, one could earn and live comfortably with
everything except mental satisfaction. Unsurprisingly, M.A Jinnah went out to
become Quaid-e-Azan only when he identified his intrinsic characteristic of
leadership. Lastly, poor career-counselling without keeping in view the innate
professional quality lead to futility and an unviability which to some extent
is relieved through heading towards hobby that is their ultimate profession but
is unknown and unidentified.
Man is born free
but everywhere he is in chains. He is chained in responsibilities, restrictions
and duties. Exactly in the same way, as I said earlier, man is born with a
particular professional quality: of doctor, engineer, lawyer, poet, leader, and
any other but he doesn’t know therefore he lags behind most of the times. It is
commonly observed that sometimes even illiterate people describe things more
eloquently than literate ones. It is only because that illiterate has been born
with innate quality of teaching but he sells mangoes on the push-cart somewhere
in the market. You might have seen the best advocates without LLB or any other
degree of law yet their talk seems to be replete with strong arguments and he
enjoys while arguing without getting lax or fatigued. It means his actual
profession should be professional advocacy but he is a doctor. Pakistan is also
suffering from the very curse as the rulers have either been businessmen or
military dictators exempt from leadership qualities.
Profession is
so interesting that it doesn’t disgust or exhaust those who are actual
professionals. When any doctor or teacher seems to be exhausted and look for
some entertainment or hobby, ensure that he is not an actual and professional
doctor or a teacher only because hobby and entertainment qualify as well as
determine an actuality and originality of profession. With an end to conceptual
clearance, four characteristics of profession are summed up as under. As I
personally believe and consider hobby to be the real profession so I bracket
following features of hobby within the category of profession.
I.
Tending towards it as frequently as possible:
For instance, If any doctor tends towards playing cricket regularly on
daily-basis. It reveals that his innate profession is to be a sportsman but
unfortunately he is a doctor solely due to external pressure yielded by parents
and society. He would have performed miraculously if had become cricketer.
II.
Not getting tired even for a while in the line
of professional practice: Nonprofessionals get usually tired after every while
and seek some entertainment to keep them fresh and satisfied. Commonly it is
experienced that hobby does not exhaust the people mentally then why is
profession tiresome and exhaustive? This complexity can only be sorted out if
our preferences are set straight and natural.
III.
Satisfied when gets finished: Real and natural
professionals enjoy their profession without any fatigue rather they feel
delighted to an optimum level. One is not a professional if left with mental
dissatisfaction at the culmination of any professional practice. The case with
Pakistan is largely the same. Notwithstanding a few exceptions, all the
so-called professionals ranging from Prime Minister to peon are habitual of
doing things with crude ingenuity (Jugar).
IV.
Known with innate professional quality: Whenever
a teacher craves to listen to a song and asks his students that who can sing
well; all the students will look at that class-fellow who has usually been
witnessed to be singing. This is how one is identified with one’s natural
hidden talent by one’s acquaintances. Regardless of how much one earns from
one’s imposed and coerced profession, he could never be known widely by the
label of that unnatural profession unless he stands up and detach oneself from
it to do something surprising and revolutionary.
Naturally
speaking, the major reason behind our backwardness is our failure in
identification of hidden talent and its utilization looking at developed world,
it glitters that the pivotal reason behind their development and progress is
nothing but natural and actual professionalism which nudges them to perform marvelously
without getting tired and dissatisfied. Unfortunately, Pakistan has remained
under the control of those who have mediocre political and leadership talent.
Sometimes it is run by nonprofessional generals who disobeyed the constitution
by toppling the democratically elected governments; other times by businessmen
who exploited politics and their bestowed authority for uplift of their own
industries within and outside the pure mother-land; and rest of the times by
those who could have performed well if had joined the profession of teaching.
Not to speak of natural professionalism, even so-called coercive
professionalism is trampled upon with firm footing. For instance the doctor was
assigned the portfolio of education and the professor worked as Interior
minister instead of education minister so on and so forth.
Substantiating
my claim with proofs, I shall shed light on some of the historical as well as
current pertinent instances: first and the foremost, the founding father of our
nation turned out to be Quaid-e-Azam when he identified his hidden talent and
utilized it. He was an advocate by profession but had hidden talent of
leadership. He was a famous and the most costly paid lawyer in subcontinent. He
was not short of any worldly material provision yet was mentally disturbed. As
he had innate leadership quality so he joined politics being compelled by his
intrinsic urge and he culminated with astounding and unbelievable formation of
a separate nation-state for the inhabitants of north-west in subcontinent.
Secondly, Singapore’s first PM, Lee KO on Yu, who was also an advocate but
renounced it and entered politics, became the Prime Minister and took Singapore
from ashes of World War II to the sky’s limits. The list of such
revolutionaries is unending who surprised the world by natural use of their
hidden talent.
From the
upshots of above-mentioned facts and inferences, it is reiterated that Pakistan
is in dire need of an overhaul in its way of career-counselling which changes
the trend leaving on aside the inborn professional qualities. There needs to be
an strategy in
education which sets an special course or activity till tenth grade in order to
identify the hidden talent of students and fix them wherever their natural
tendency welcomes them with open arms.
Department of Media &Communication Studies, University of Sindh
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