Why career guidance is important.

Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions a person will ever make. Unfortunately, many people make career choices without much career guidance and I have to confess, I was once a victim of poor career guidance or rather no career guidance at all. Its one thing to have access to poor career guidance and another thing to have no career guidance all of which I am not sure if one is better than the other. The bottom line is an individual is supposed to receive to have access to good career guidance.

I had a vision of working in the science field, maybe as an Engineer, Doctor or Computer Scientist and during my high school days I could wear my white laboratory court, chest out and shoulders up. Part of why I wanted to be in Science field was not clear but one of the reason was that it sounded cool doing Maths, Physics and Chemistry, the so called Sciences at Advanced Level. Maybe I wanted to use my Science background and be like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Isaac Newton who changed the world using science, and that’s a question I am still debating today WHY?

Changing the world, making a mark and leave a legacy is still my motivation to date and I am not going to stop the quest but unfortunately not in the science field that I ever wanted. I didn’t do so well at Advanced Level or simply my results were not competitive enough to get a place at Varsity for a good Science degree. No one told me or reminded me the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again”. I quickly lost my interest in Sciences but fortunately enough I loved calculations and Mathematics was my favorite so this gave me an option of what to do.

When I young my mother taught me how to operate a business by buying me sweets and biscuits which I could sell at home. My mother would continue to help me reinvest in the small initiative and at the end of every school term I could buy my own school requirements like stationery. Looking back I discovered that my mother instilled a business mindset in me. I attempted writing Advanced Level Business Studies in 4 months, without a teacher and by God’s grace I passed with 3 points. It was one of the greatest moments in my life and I sensed a little genius in me saying you can do anything if you put your mind and heart to it.

The rest is history but combining my Business Studies and Mathematics I was eligible to enroll for a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Banking and Finance. I am humbled to say I am a holder of an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in Banking and Finance. However, the question remained, ‘how was I able to change the world when I thought I needed Science to be a world beater and game changer?’?Maybe if I had career guidance even after holding my degree I would have a different mindset. Career guidance it’s a lifelong learning thing and one need career guidance at every level of his career.

I further researched on world beaters who have made it in the financial services industry and I found Doctor Nigel Chanakira, Warren Buffet, Robert Kiyosaki and started to feel proud of my achievement and career path. I still feel someone else should have advised me about this but then sometimes we have to accept the world care less and you have to take initiative at times in our life and career.

Thinking out loud, I have discovered that my passion of changing the world was far much greater than Science. I founded Capernaum Financial Services, a financial services boutique and now, I am impacting people's lives using banking and finance.?ALL IN ALL WE NEED CAREER GUIDANCE AT EVERY STAGE OF OUR CAREERS.