Childhood is the most blissful phase in everyone’s life. We don’t have any responsibilities nor worries nor any life altering decisions to take. All we have to do is play, hangout with friends, be the coolest kid in the class, gossip among friends, try to impress our secret crush and all sort of things which you might feel funny one’s you have grown up. “Your still a kid” is what you often hear which makes you desperate to grow up.

As you begin to realize that your school life is going to end soon you will start hearing a new phrase ” What’s next ?” instead of the regular “You are still a kid”. So you start asking yourself what’s next ? You want help from parents and friends for this big problem, but they are in the same dilemma as you are.

In India, you will start hearing, at-most, of only two options : engineering and doctor . This might start puzzling you that whether your life is just either option A or option B. If you are from this phase of life, don’t worry your life is not that limited, there are hundreds of professions and hundred other ways to lead your life. This post is exclusively for you, so go through the post and you will start to learn about many new professions which are as good or much better than those two which you hear.

Arts Background

Bachelor’s in Design

Though this course is frequently misinterpreted as for people who are not good at science group, deign field is one of the most successful and creative field. This field is picking up rapidly in India as its importance is being noticed. The demand for designers is also increasing exponentially in India as urbanization is bringing the status factor to all classes of people.

NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology):

One of the prestigious and most sorted institute in India for fashion and textile industry enthusiasts. There curriculum is for 4 years and graduates from this college often get placed in industries related to textiles, color and illustrator. Automobile companies too choose these designers for there expertise in color and fabric. Many of them opt to remain as consultants, free-lancers or to start there own design firm.

Website: https://nift.ac.in/

NID (National Institute of design) :

This institutes offer professional Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in five main streams: Industrial Design, Communication Design, Textile, Apparel & Lifestyle Design, IT Integrated (Experiential) Design and Interdisciplinary Design Studies. These streams are further divided into: Animation Film design, Ceramic and glass design, Exhibition Design, Film and Video communication, Furniture and Interior Design, Graphic design, Product Design, Textile Design, etc. To keep it simple, NID is for designers what IIT is for engineers.

Website: https://www.nid.edu/index.html

Commerce Courses

Commerce course is another lucrative and ever green field. Commerce field is another field which is shadowed by the engineering boom in India. Many of them come to a conclusion that Commerce is equal to an accounts officer in a company, but that’s just another phrase invented to kill the dreams of students who want to pursue a career in finance. There are many fields in commerce background.

Charted Accountant:

CA is one of the best careers one can have, but to keep it bluntly its hard to crack. Many people dropout from this career after many trials in there long academic career in this field.

People who choose CA first go through CPT and then IPCC and finally CA finals. In the meanwhile they need to get ITT (100 hours) course done and have an articleship experience (Working under a CA). After clearing CA finals they become a CA

A charted accountant will deal everything from accounting to taxation of private and individual entities.

Investment Banker

These financial experts works for, in general, for Investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc., by assisting in huge and complicated transactions. They are mainly concerned with raising capital for government bodies, private institutions or others.

Investment bankers job range from structuring a merger, acquisition, issuing securities for raising money,pricing financial instruments,navigating regulatory requirements,etc. They provide clients with their expertise on to how to move forward depending upon the market pulse.

Investment banking is gaining popularity in recent years, it pays the best in its field. To be a investment banker one is expected to have a good skill sets in verbal and written communications, process complex math calculations and most importantly to work for long hours. In general, a investment banker have a MBA from top colleges and Charted Financial Analyst designation to add strength in their profile.

Apart from these two there are many other fields which are emerging and give a good pay check in the market like financial analyst, financial planer, Cost Management Accountant, stock broker and Investment analyst, bank management, Taxation and ta procedure,etc and they each have their own bachelor degree for specialization in their field.

Law course

Legal profession is considered as a respectful and ,if you are successful, a very high paid job. As the boom for engineering has been subsiding many other fields are showing there true potential and one of them is Legal. If you take up law course, you don’t have to practice law in court like you see in movies, you can be a consultant for corporate institutions or as a free lancer. Choosing corporate or industrial law as your specialization will launch you in that direction.

Students who want to enter law course can choose a five year program of BA LLB(Hons) (after 12th) or a three year course of LLB ,after graduation, in one of the many law colleges[NALSAR University of Law(Hyderabad), National Law School of India University (Bangalore), Gujarat National Law university, etc] in our country. CLAT is the entrance exam you have to take to get into a law school and LSAT score is also accepted in many colleges. Colleges like Symbiosis conduct their own entrance exam.

Hospitality

Hospitality is a diversified field. One can work anywhere from hotels to food chain to travel industry and many more. Thanks to globalization, this sector is growing at a tremendous phase. Professionals in this field have to go through intense training as interns and professionals to gain success in this field. People who have chosen hospitality sector are not constrained to one country, with good communication and interpersonal skills they can work anywhere in the world.

Students who want to join bachelor’s in hospitality has to take NCHMCT JEE test. Depending upon their rank from this test they can choose the best from various institutions pan India. Institute of Hotel Management Catering & Nutrition, Pusa, New delhi is the top college in India for Hotel management course. It offers a 3 year course with intermediate internship as OJT.

Merchant Navy

Many people feel that they don’t want the regular 9-5 job, earning a bit and having a monotonous job in their life. They want some action and adventure in their life and if you are one of them this is the perfect job. It is not as risky as an armed forces job nor as boring as a computer job. Seafarers in general travel around the world and stop at various countries ports. They get a sailor pass to roam around the port city until there time to leave. Seafarers spend a lot of time on sea but they don’t complain about being bored or seasick. They start from a decent salary and draw huge checks while going up the ranks depending on the ship they work for.

Students who want to enter this field after 12th need to have a degree in B.E/ B.Tech from Marine Engineering for four years. After having a sailing experience for 6 months they can become a marine engineer. People can also get into merchant navy after there graduation if they have opted for Mechanical Engineering in there B.tech. After which they need to complete one year GME course.

If you want to know more about merchant navy go through below links:
http://marinersthoughts.blogspot.com/
http://howtojoinmerchantnavy.blogspot.com/2014/01/5-reasons-to-join-merchant-navy.htm

These are just few careers you can have other than those regular rhetoric courses. Explore yourself first before you choose your career. Don’t just choose because it pays more or someone told you that it is good. Try to find the connection between your personality and the career you choose and if you choose the right career after exploring yourself you will be very successful in your life.

Thank you and Happy reading…:)