B2 – Upper Intermediate
Some say that young people nowadays are not willing to follow in their parents’ footsteps in business or lifestyle.
Read the article to know why some young people choose to follow their parents’ advice when choosing their career and others don’t.
https://medium.com/elizabethsblog/how-family-influences-your-career-choice-75ff9452cd21
Vocabulary Questions:
- What does steer away from someone/something mean? “When children are exposed to their parents’ beliefs, this can result in the individual steering away from certain career choices and following their guardian’s ideals and beliefs.” Use it in a sentence.
- What does peer influence mean? “Other factors such as church and peer influences are generally overridden by home and school.” Use it in a sentence.
- What does nurturing mean? “Another factor of how a parent can influence a child’s career choice may depend on how nurturing the parents are.” Give a synonym and use ‘nurturing’ in a sentence.
Discussion Questions:
- Do you agree or disagree that families have a large impact on what career path their children might choose? Explain your stand.
- Why do you think parents want their children to follow a certain career path?
- Who influenced the career path that you are in now? What impact did they make on you or your decision to take up a degree/profession in this field?
- In your opinion, why are young people reluctant to follow their parents’ career advice?
- What career advice would you give your children (children of your friends or relatives)?
4 replies on “Family Influences Career Choice”
1. I agree that families are a key point on the career path their children can choose. This choice can be in a positive or negative way. Sometimes, they will go on as advised by their parents but others they will do the contrary when they have received bad feedback from the familiar surroundings.
2. I suppose that parents feel proud of what they are doing and want that their children follow the same career path. It is understandable when they have their own business since they will want to go on along the years.
3. My parents and my teachers influenced on me to choose my career path. I wanted to study psychology, but they persuaded me to change into another more productive career since psychology did not have too many options to find a work.
4. Young people see that their parents are not happy with their jobs. Nowadays, children do not like to have compromises and obligations; therefore, if they see that their parents hardly have spare time to enjoy, or they cannot disconnect from work, it is very likely for the children not to want to follow the same steps as their parents.
5. The piece of advice I have given my son is that he must choose what he really likes, nobody has to influence in his decisions since it is one of the most important decisions in his life, his future depends on what he chooses right now.
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Vocabulary questions.
1. His parents are scientists, and now he is steering away to choose any humanity career.
2. I went to a catholic school, and their peer influences made me think that i could be a good franciscan monk, now i think that was crazy.
3. I have always been CULTIVATED in maths, Just because my mum work in a bank as accountant.
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