College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Picking a field of study is usually a very difficult choice students have to go through, sooner or later in their lives. There are a great number of variables to consider when making that decision. Very often, students are tempted, and even encouraged by their relatives and teachers, to pursue subjects in which they have deep interest in. But is that really the most important factor to consider? The fact is that, no matter what subject they are most passionate about, the wisest choice will be to take into consideration the job opportunities this decision will bring in the future.
First of all, it is a fact that everyone who is not wealthy by birth will need a job in order to have a life. Not only that is necessary for any individual in our society, in therms of conventions and personal achievements, but also it is the way people earn money in order to buy food and pay the rent. In other words, having a job is essential for anyone trying to survive. Of course, having a job you like may make you better at your activity, and will help you to be more successful on it. But, in the end, having any job is the primary concern you should have; having a job you like is just desirable.
On the other hand, if a person works in something s/he hates, chances are that professional failure will affect other aspects of his/her life, sooner or later. Not only this individual will be unhappy on the workplace, but this bad feeling may also influence negatively personal and familiar activities. To prevent that from happening, the best solution would be to find a subject that attend both personal and professional demands. Of course, that is not always easy to do. In the cases where the optimal solution is not an option, it is important to keep in mind that primary demands, such as eating and having a place to live, are more essential to anyone than satisfaction on the professional activity. It’s not possible to achieve this without having the basic needs fulfilled first.
For example, if a young man, who loves music and dreams about becoming a professional drummer, doesn’t take into consideration the uncertainties of this profession, he will be likely to be a frustrated adult, not only professionally, since the number of drummers who becomes successful is ridiculously small, but also personally, as the finances starts being a big issue for him. In that case, he will not be able to achieve his personal nor his professional goals.
In other words, picking up a career that brings great personal satisfaction, but that has no promising work fields in the future, should not be encouraged in college students. Of course there are some examples of people who invested precious time of their lives in pursuing dreams that didn't appear to drive them into any good jobs at first, and in the end made them very successful. But that is the exception. The safest and wisest decision a person can make is to choose something that attend both expectations: the professional and the personal.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 778, Rule ID: NEEDS_FIXED[1]
Message: "needs fulfilled" is only accepted in certain dialects. For something more widely acceptable, try 'fulfilling' or 'to be fulfilled'.
Suggestion: fulfilling; to be fulfilled
...eve this without having the basic needs fulfilled first. For example, if a young man, ...
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Line 9, column 287, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... of their lives in pursuing dreams that didnt appear to drive them into any good jobs...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, really, so, for example, of course, such as, first of all, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2500.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 524.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77099236641 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72768611573 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 784.8 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.6283868171 60.3974514979 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.636363636 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8181818182 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.40909090909 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151345370265 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0401923717209 0.0831039109588 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0513459510705 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0824229863421 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0356676733893 0.0667264976115 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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