What is Wrong With the Parent/Student Status Quo?

As far as I know, there has never been a clearly defined process for figuring out how to choose a career, and what career to choose. We have spoken to many, many parents and young adults about this subject, asking them how they made their own career choice. Parents and students typically give us one of 5 responses:
1. My parent(s) thought I should do X.
2. I heard about it, or read about it and it sounded interesting.
3. I had to make a decision, so I made a choice based on a subject I liked in school.
4. Somebody told me it was a great career, and one where there were jobs.
5. My Dad/Mom/Cousin/Friend/Neighbor is an X, and I thought it seemed like a good field.

Sadly, this is the status quo. This is how most people make one of the most important decisions in their lives. However, we must question the wisdom of this totally random process because: MOST PEOPLE DO NOT LOVE (or even like) WHAT THEY DO! In fact, statistics show that between 66 and 80 percent of people are unhappy with their choice of career. That is the majority of people, the large majority. I created oneTRUEzone to change all this.

When we tell people there is an actual process (oneTRUEzone) for discovering what their calling is, what they are meant to do, and for finding a career that can help them lead happy, satisfying lives, the typical response is: I wish I knew of this process when I was young, before I had devoted so much time/education/energy/money into a career that is wrong for me, and before I had responsibilities to pay my mortgage/health insurance/ educate my children.

Most people are used to thinking (or even told) that you just ‘figure it out’, typically relying on one of the 5 ways mentioned above. If they only knew at an early age that it doesn’t have to be this way, think of how different their lives could be, how different the world might be.

Check out our website www.onetruezone.com.
Give your student the opportunity to change the status quo and find a career (really a life) they will truly love.

Helene Naftali