We know that profession is a set of activities that are carried out with the aim of producing goods and services useful to people and earning an income in return, acquired through certain education and whose rules are determined by society. We sustain our lives thanks to our professions, we try to carry out our profession continuously with our performance at work, and we aim for material and spiritual satisfaction.
Y. Kuzgun, who has worked in the field of vocational guidance and consultancy for years, says that choosing a profession is one of the professions that are open to a person. It is about evaluating the various aspects and deciding to turn to someone whose desired aspects are very few and who are not desirable in terms of their own needs and expectations. Choosing a profession is not a decision made suddenly and is shaped and emerges during the professional development process. He defined it as: Another valuable academician of ours, B. Yeşilyaprak, defines career choice as a professional decision formed in the interaction of the conditions and the perceptual framework that the individual develops about himself and professions, starting from childhood, and is a choice made at a certain stage of the professional development process. Considering that it is our interests and abilities that make us choose, we should consider profession and personality structure together and know that professional development is a parallel structure to personality development. Based on this, professional development; It can be considered as an aspect of all our development areas. It is possible to find different life stages in personality development, as well as in professional development. Just as an individual who does not complete his developmental tasks experiences various regressions in the next stage of development, it is a deficiency that professional development tasks are not experienced at the stage when they should be experienced, or in other words, not participating in the richness of life at the times when life opportunities should be experienced. This deficiency makes sense with the sum of the failures individuals experience, from choosing a profession to practicing their profession, and results in the individual becoming alienated from the profession, losing motivation, and experiencing some other handicaps.
Although the profession (or in today's words, Career counselors provide a solution to a person's career decision-making process based on the person's abilities, interests and values. There is a process that guides people's decisions in choosing a career and ensures harmony between their experiences, perceptions and reality. As much as this process is affected by the person's social, cultural and economic experiences, the "exposed" experiences that constitute his inner world, such as parental attitudes, psychological perceptions or unsatisfied needs, are also factors in the person's career decision-making process.
Persons' conciliatory attitude, Anna Roe's needs analysis, Holland's professional personality types, Fraud's unconscious motives, Super's prototypes, the process characterized by Ginzberg or Katz-Gelatt's self-designs ; No matter what, no matter what theory is evaluated, both human experience and psychology never progress on uniform lines. This rich content is answered with the answer "Why This Job?" The question actually hides completely different elements inside.
Please ask the professionals around you why this profession. Then listen to his life story. Of course, you will have found a serious connection between that person's profession and his life, and be sure that this connection is not a rationalization.
In our country, the most important step of the professional development process is the educational experience. Our academic success is a determining factor in our career choice. The most successful child in the class is a doctor or an engineer, of course, "someone" who has not yet made sufficient academic progress, we also need a shoe repairman. It's up to you to decide how healthy your professional development will be under this pressure. You, who did not choose a profession that suits your talents, interests and values despite getting the highest score in the exams, either moved away from the field you chose during university or took a step into a completely different profession because you could not get / give the satisfaction that was expected from you in your professional life or that you expected.
Just as there is no food without effort, there is no profession without talent. Talent is the most important necessity in order to do a profession and meet the expectations of that profession. But talent alone It does not allow us to do that profession. The combination of that talent with interests and personal values will be compatible with each other so that we can feel excitement when going to work in the morning.
In 2006, we carried out a study on vocational consultancy with my dear friend Gökçe Çokamay. In this study, we examined/tried to analyze the life of a musician who is considered to be very successful. Our goal was to explain the relationship between profession and life satisfaction. In the context of the study, the professional selection process and professional maturity gave us many clues.
The reality that emerged as a result of the study was just like the descriptions that Ginzberg included in his theory years ago. Irreversible Experiences offer us a choice among the possibilities of continuing our lives, not a profession, and we feel like we have chosen a profession.
Profession is not only effective in making decisions about how we will continue our lives. In addition, it can determine what kind of life we will live, where and in which culture we will live, what kind of worldview we will have and even who we will marry.
In our Practice; C.B. is a drummer who graduated from Law. He was born in Izmir in 1981, and continued his life in Ankara after his family came to Ankara. Family culture is defined within High SES. His academic life is compatible with the SED he is in. Primary education, college; High school is a state high school, he graduated from a private university, Faculty of Law.
Sharing some of his sentences with you during the process will better express what we want to say.
“Law is a field in which one must be idealistic, the same is true of musicianship. Of course, if you try to do both together, idealism will get stuck somewhere. But law was a choice I made without even wanting to.”
“That threshold is always changing for me. I have never found myself competent, and I do not associate professionalism with making money. In my own eyes, I am still an amateur, I work for the better, for my personal pleasure and the satisfaction of others. And in this job, my perfectionism increases day by day.”
“I try not to concentrate while playing. I work hard to do the best I can at what I do.”
(He immediately takes out his phone and shows a photo taken when he was little, in which his grandmother poses with her toy monkey playing the trumpet)
p>“When I was little, I had toy drums like this and monkeys that played snare drums. I already had an interest in percussion instruments, but I was in high school when I discovered this. I started listening to the music I'm currently interested in much later than my friends. It started with listening to Queen in high school, and then it continued…”
“Since my mother played in the orchestra, classical music had a special place in my life when my mother was not with me on certain days of the week…”
“I can't do it if I don't listen to rock, I really feel bad. ”
“But when I feel bad, there is a displacement. Then the words come to the fore. Sometimes some music can remind me of some events.”
“I feel very bad when I make mistakes during the program. I say okay, tonight will go on like this..."
"I think that everything will be ruined due to a mistake in human relations."
Working unipolarly in examining a person's professional development, It puts us in a blinded perspective. Producing analyzes based on different theories will enrich our productivity.
As you know, human beings develop a system of thought on needs, and when we evaluate the above sentences about our routine and essential needs; The person's lower-level needs are actively seen in his sentences. Moreover, if lower-level needs are rarely satisfied, the needs turn into an unconscious motivator and prevent the emergence of higher-level needs. When higher level needs are satisfied, lower level needs become the dominant motivation. For example, assume that the financial situation of the family is quite variable, sometimes good and sometimes bad, in this case it is not clear when the child will receive money. Naturally, after this neurotic anxiety, the child will focus on what he lacks and financial gain will be an important factor in the professions he chooses.
Profession types also determine the choice of a profession. It has a destructive effect. If we are to make a distinction between professions that are distant from people or those in which we actively interact with people, in family cultures where commitment and togetherness are excessive, children are generally expected to gravitate towards objects and objects in the professions they choose. Such children try to satisfy the interest they cannot find in the family environment in other areas, and while doing this, they prefer to focus on objects rather than people.
The discourses of Psychoanalytic Theory on professional development are more crucial. It is assumed that even in a psychologically healthy person, unconscious motivations constitute the decision-making mechanism in choosing a profession. In case of ego dissatisfaction and narcissistic tendencies in the individual, unconscious motives are sublimated. An individual with a dominant sadistic instinct may glorify himself as a surgeon. Thus, he satisfies his instinct. He also gains respect, prestige and money. Career selection activities implemented in kindergartens to satisfy these unconscious motivations that emerge between the ages of 0-5 are an unmissable opportunity for individuals to make healthy career choices.
If we return to the vocational counseling process, Roe' When 's theory is taken into consideration, it becomes clear that lower level needs are not met. This can be clearly understood from the sentence "Since my mother played in the orchestra, classical music had a special place in my life when my mother was not with me on certain days of the week..." This personal evaluation provides us with clear information about the “self”. It seems that a person turns to music due to the influence of the environment he is in, the toys he plays with, and the unconscious need for closeness to his mother. The person's basic expectation and need to be satisfied is maternal closeness, and his response is music. However, like the problem that would arise from the sentences "Our unconscious instincts that we are not aware of direct us to the profession", instead of taking classical music as a model, the person was interested in rock music, which is the opposite pole, and expressed his anger in this way. In another context, this issue makes us think not only about career choice but also about the outcome of attachment model.
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