Reeling in Research

Reeling in Research

            In the “Rule of Three” my developing focus in our educational system is that students should stand up for the change they want. Growing up in an education system it is pounded into our heads that we cannot speak unless we raise our hand, if you have nothing to say to not say it at all, we have to be a judge free classroom, but when is it ok to speak your mind. When we go home after a day of school the same mentality is in our comfort zone, our parents even tell us not to speak unless we are spoken too. We keep quiet to not disobey our parents, teachers or anyone with authority.

            As we grow up, many of us students go to school to make our parents proud, go to school for what our parents or society want us to become and to get a job that pays well and has good benefits. Keeping quiet and obeying our parents will later realize everything we have done was never for you. In the Passion Project by Skye Ontiveros, Romeo states, “it’s hard for me sometimes because there’s something where they expect you to become what they want to become. No one should tell me what to do but um my mom and my dad is trying to my business in the future and then force me to take it”(3). Along with many other students in the passion project stating that their parents want them to work in career that has money and than later think of your happiness.  In an article “I hate my Career Choice” writer states, “I still feel wrong. Uneasy. Each time I think about going to work I feel physically sick. I hate that feeling. And it's nothing my workplace has done perse.” Hating your job for no reason is the worse feeling because you have wasted time and money into something you are not satisfied with. Louise Thompson in “Needing parental approval” claimed, “I can't tell you how many people stay in a situation that is not right for them because they don't want to lose the approval of their parents. From students doing a degree they hate, to professionals slogging up a career ladder that is high in following in familial footsteps but low in personal satisfaction”.

Together all these stories have the same objective to disobey your parents or you will be stuck hating the job, life and person you have become. The teacher tells you to hold your comments, speak up tell them what is need to be said. Parents are planning your future, step up and tell them you have one planned already. Speak up and stay committed to what makes you happy. Later on in life, you will not hate yourself for making this career choice, people say when you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life again.

Work Cited

"I Hate My Career Choice. Now What?!" Offbeat Home RSS. N.p., 4 Jan. 2013. Web. 03 Sept. 2013

Thompson, Louise. "Louise Thompson: Needing Parental Approval." The New Zealand Herald 20 May 2013: n. pag. Web. <http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=b6f6f86a-22db-493f-893a-f7cd6fa369de%40sessionmgr111&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=HOB139280018313>.