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Mistakes and difficulties in choosing a career

Lessons 27 · 1 lessons · O. A. Qo‘ysinov, O‘. O. Tohirov, D. N. Mamatov, D. F. Aripova. Labour education (Mehnat ta’limi), Grade 9: methodical guide for teachers. Delta-Print, Tashkent, 2017. Note: this is a teacher’s guide, not a student textbook (lesson plans for the “Technology and design”, “Service” and “Basics of agriculture” directions). The course is built from the lesson-plan topics of the “Technology and design” direction; the “Iroqi” skullcap lesson comes from the “Service” direction, and lesson 25 (joining parts) is written from the topic listed in the guide’s calendar plan.
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Mistakes and difficulties in choosing a career

Teacher’s guide: pp. 99–102
GoalRecognise common mistakes made when choosing a career and know how to avoid them.
New words
prestige · nufuzimitation · taqlidspecific features of an occupation · kasbning o‘ziga xos xususiyatlarijumping to conclusions · shoshilib xulosa qilish
Explanation

Most mistakes in choosing a career come from a few causes. The first is dreaming at once of the highest post; in fact every master, engineer and manager started with ordinary work and grew step by step. The second is dividing occupations into “prestigious” and “not prestigious”; any honest work is needed by society and deserves respect. The third is following a path only because friends chose it; if interests and abilities match it is fine, otherwise one later has to change course. The fourth is blindly choosing the occupation of a person you admire; first find out the everyday conditions of that job — its hours, place, physical load and responsibility. The fifth is seeing only the attractive, visible side of a job: for example, thinking a vet is someone who just pets animals, while the work also includes treating sick animals, surgery and night call-outs. The sixth is equating a favourite school subject with a career: for a student who says “I love chemistry” there are many specific jobs — laboratory assistant, pharmacist, chemical technologist, ecologist — whose daily work differs sharply. The seventh is not knowing that the content of work has changed: today’s worker uses computers, programmed machine tools and digital instruments. The eighth is ignoring health and one’s own features: unsuitable conditions can harm health.

Worked examples
Because his friend is an accountant, Jasur also wants to go into accounting, but he does not like working with numbers and loves working in a workshop. This is the “not to be left behind by friends” mistake.
Someone wants to be an astronomer only to watch the starry sky. But an astronomer is often busy with calculations, processing observation data and working through the night. This is interest in only the outer side of an occupation.
Class activity

“Find the mistake”: the teacher reads five short situations (for example, “Anvar wants to be a journalist because appearing on TV is fun”). Groups identify which mistake each shows and suggest the right way.

Practice
1
Name four of the eight mistakes in choosing a career.
2
Why is the idea of a “non-prestigious occupation” wrong?
3
Of 30 students in a class, 12 chose a career by following a friend. What percent is that?
4
Why should one find out the everyday working conditions of a job before choosing it?