Issue 31
The issue of whether financial gain should be the most important factor in choosing a career arouses much controversy among people with different perspectives and backgrounds. On one hand, there may be various elements needed to be taken into consideration other than financial gain when choosing a career. On the other hand, money itself also has its own importance. Therefore, there is no universal answer to this question, and whether one opinion takes precedence over the other depends on specific circumstances. As far as I am concerned, I agree that for most people opportunities for career advancement and personal growth deserve much more consideration in selecting a career. My view will be strongly supported by the following analysis.
In the first place, the very important reason to support my point of view is that a real career should be a life-long one, and thus it is supposed to possess the possibility to sustain one’s interests as well as unleash one’s utmost potential. According to this principle, for those who expect to seek a life-long career, opportunities for career advancement and personal growth naturally call for more emphasis. A repeating and tiresome job simply dose not deserve the name “career” despite of its handsome paycheck. In addition, according to Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, only those jobs with increasing opportunities for advancement and personal growth can satisfy people’s higher level of needs of increasing involvement in the job and further, of accomplishing self-actualization, which is the regarded as the greatest goal of one’s career.
In the second place, another reason that can be presented to develop my position is that financial gain, or rather money, should never be the ultimate purpose of life and of career. The reason for this argument is not very far to seek. In a healthy society, people should be the master of their fortune rather than overburden themselves with extravagant desires or avarice. That is to say, money is only a mean via which people can achieve other important goals and enjoy their life as well as their work.
Admittedly, in some exceptional cases, financial gain may be more important than other elements during the course of career selection. At least for those people who are striving for making ends meet, money is indeed fundamental and even means survival. However, this alone can not constitute a sufficient support to the claim that financial gain should be the most crucial factor in choosing a career.
To sum up, I advocate the idea that for most people opportunities for career advancement and personal growth deserve much more consideration in selecting a career, because satisfying these two requirements is the prerequisite of a real and life-long career. Therefore, due to the aforementioned reasons, we can safely arrive at the conclusion I support.作者: excellent 时间: 2003-10-16 11:05
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