Profession is a set of activities that are carried out with the aim of producing goods and services useful to people and obtaining an income in return, acquired through certain education and whose rules are determined by society (Kuzgun, 1999).
Profession is the work that an individual does in order to survive. It requires continuity; It provides material and spiritual satisfaction to the person. It requires a certain educational experience and is carried out according to socially accepted moral principles. (Temel, 2005)
Professional choice is when a person evaluates the various aspects of the professions open to him and decides to choose one whose desired aspects are more or less desirable in terms of his needs and expectations. Choosing a profession is not a decision made suddenly and is shaped and emerges during the professional development process. (Kuzgun, 1999).
The vocational decision, which is formed in the interaction of the conditions and the perceptual framework that the individual develops about himself and professions starting from childhood, is a choice made at a certain stage of the professional development process (Yeşilyaprak, 2004).
Vocational development theorists state that professional development is parallel to personality development and follows a hierarchical structure (Super, l963; Bartlett, l971; Bohn, l966). According to Nelson-Jones (1982), career development can be seen as an aspect of an individual's development, such as social, emotional and mental development. Just like the stages of the general development process, professional development also has certain stages. Super (1957) identified some tasks expected from individuals for each professional development stage. These tasks that the individual must undertake for each professional development stage are called "Professional Development Tasks". A person's ability to successfully fulfill his/her professional development duties depends on his/her ability to obtain life opportunities related to those duties.
Although vocational (Career) counselors provide a solution based on the person's abilities, interests and values in the professional decision-making process. Although it produces the path, there is a process that guides people's decisions in choosing a career and ensures harmony between their experiences, perceptions and reality. This process is affected by the person's social, cultural and economic experiences as well as the "exposed" experiences that constitute his/her inner world, such as parental attitudes, psychology. Perceptions or unsatisfied needs are also factors in a person's career decision-making process.
Theories that explain people's career choice processes are as follows.
1. Trait-Factor Theory of Persons
Analysis of the Individual + Analysis of the Profession → Reconciliation
2. Anna Roe's Theory of Needs
a) Needs:
● Routine Needs ● Lower Level Needs
● Needs Satisfied After a Long Period of Deprivation
b) Parental Attitudes
● Overprotective ● Rejecting ● Democratic
3. Holland's Occupational Typology
● Realistic Type ●Intellectual ● Social
● Traditional ● Entrepreneurial ● Artistic
4. Psychoanalytic Theory
● Our unconscious motives, of which we are not aware, direct the person to the profession.
● It is valuable to sublimate unconscious motives.
● These unconscious motives emerge between the ages of 0-5 and If used well
profession is an opportunity for the satisfaction of these instincts.
5. Super's Self theory
The more similar the adjectives an individual attributes to himself and the adjectives he attributes to the prototype of that profession, the greater the tendency to choose that profession.
● Discovery (15-24) ● Settlement (25-44) ) ● Protection (45-64)
6. Developmental Theory of Ginzberg and His Friends
It is a process characterized by the compromise made between the individual's desires, wishes, needs and abilities
● Fantasy Choices ● Temporary Choices ●Realistic Choices
7. Katz-Gelatt's Decision Theory
First of all, the individual's personality traits and self-concepts are important.
(Experiences, features and opportunities of the environment, interaction with the environment)
Considering that psychology will never progress on uniform lines, each theory will be customized and transferred to the individual and people will ask "Why this profession?" We can give more realistic answers to the question. We can only explain this with the “Professional Development Process” with its rich content.
The “Professional Development Process”, which occurs when many factors belonging to the individual and his environment affect each other and the individual, from childhood to adulthood. ” It consists of five phases. These stages follow each other m stages. Each developmental stage affects the stages that follow it. These stages are listed as follows (Isaacson 1986).
1. Awakening and awareness (Awareness): Covers the primary school period, between the ages of 5-12.
2. Discovering and researching professions (Exploration): Covers the secondary school period between the ages of 12-15.
3. Decision Making: Covers the high school period between the ages of 15-18.
4. Preparation: Covers the higher education period between the ages of 18-23.
5. Employment: Age 23 and later covers the period of entering business life.
The most important step of the professional development process in Turkey is the educational experience. A person's academic success has the most important place in his career choice. However, this statement does not always show the truth for us. Data proving that individuals who do not choose professions appropriate to their abilities, interests and values despite getting the highest scores in the exams, either move away from the field they chose during university or do not receive the satisfaction expected from them in their professional lives prove our conclusion.
Talent is a must to do a profession and meet the expectations of that profession. However, talent alone does not enable us to do that profession. That ability must combine with interests and be compatible with personal values. In this study, the problem of this study is to examine the life of a musician who can be considered (relatively) successful, to reveal what events in his life affected him in the career selection process, along with his talents and interests, and to reveal his life satisfaction due to the profession he chose, in his own words.
The purpose of this study is to find out whether the musician examined in the context of the study is competent in his career choice and professional maturity, and his descriptions of his life satisfaction.
>Considering the realities of our country, career choice largely involves "irreversibility", as Ginzberg stated. For this reason, the abilities and interests required by professions and the personal and professional values are taught to students. It should be introduced with the beginning of the child's life, and professional life should also be introduced at that time. Only in this way can good timing be achieved. The fact that Psychological Counseling and Guidance Services in Turkey cannot find the necessary meaning and value limits the capabilities and working areas of psychological counselors, one of whose main duties is vocational guidance. It can determine what kind of work environment he will work in, what kind of life he will lead, where he will live, what kind of worldview he will have and even whom he will marry. Concretizing the issue with the example of applied vocational counseling and the importance of the vocational counseling that should be provided by professionals and the relationship between the profession and the person's quality of life / life satisfaction make this study valuable.
Interviewee Person:
C.B, Law Graduate (1 year), drummer (10 years)
Born in Izmir in 1981. He settled in Ankara with his family right after he was born.
High SES member family structure
Primary education, college; High school is a state high school, he graduated from a private university, Faculty of Law.
Some sentences:
“Law is a field where 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 to concentrate while playing so that I can do my best.”
(He immediately takes out his phone and He shows a photo taken when he was little, in the photo his grandmother posed with her toy monkey playing the trumpet)
“When I was little, I had toy drums like this and monkeys playing the trumpet. 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..."
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“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."
When examining a person's professional development, there is always a unipolar We may not be able to work. Moreover, psychological theories are different perspectives of each other and the comments made add richness to our development of suggestions.
With the semi-structured method above, we can explain the professional development process and professional maturity of the person interviewed with two theories that are close to each other.
● Theory of Needs (Anna Roe)
● Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud)
Our Needs
●Routine Needs
“…this person will turn to money as the primary motivation in choosing a profession.”
● Lower Level Needs
When rarely satisfied, these needs turn into unconscious motivators and prevents the emergence of higher level needs. While higher level needs (self-actualization) disappear completely when satisfied, lower level needs become the dominant motivation when occasionally satisfied. For example, 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. The child will focus on what he lacks, and money will be an important factor in the professions he chooses.
● Needs Satisfied After a Long Period of Deprivation
Such needs turn into unconscious motivations and affect the subconscious.
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Profession Types
● Professions Away from People
Family is extremely liberal
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